The Small Glories and The Meadows Brothers at the Kate March 18

OLD SAYBROOK, CT - The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, “the Kate”, is pleased to welcome The Small Glories with local roots duo The Meadows Brothers on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 7:30 pm.

Roots powerhouse duo The Small Glories are Cara Luft and JD Edwards, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies. With a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon, these veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear, rooms shrink, and audiences feel as they are right there on the stage with the band. The material of a Small Glories concert is welcoming in terms of subject, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love, loss, and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica.

Luft, an original member of harmony sweethearts The Wailin' Jennys and whose parents were folksingers influenced by the great activist Pete Seeger, knows that sometimes a song is all you need to bring people together. But often, it is more. “(Seeger) was the king of uniting people through singing,” Luft says. “There’s so much animosity and divisiveness in our world these days… as artists, part of our job is to somehow create unity.”

The Meadows Brothers music exists in the spaces between a rock and roll band that writes folk songs and a folk band that writes rock and roll songs; with a heavy helping of harmony, a taste of groove, a bit of the blues and a dash of twang for good measure. Ian and Dustin Meadows have been playing music together the majority of the 23 years they’ve known each other. Drawing from a varied list of influences, their sound and songs have taken shape over countless late night jams and writing sessions in their childhood bedroom, and hundreds of shows all over the country.

For information and tickets please, visit www.thekate.org or call 860-510-0453.