Arts & Entertainment
An Evening with John Wesley Harding - Rick Moody - Joe Pernice - Live at Eddie's Attic!
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets will be $25 at the door.
Wesley Stace (aka, John Wesley Harding) has released 17 albums, ranging from traditional folk to full-on pop music. His new album The Sound Of His Own Voice features 13 new songs, backed by an all star band, The King Charles Trio, featuring members of The Decemberists, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Rosanne Cash, Laura Veirs, and John Roderick. John Wesley Harding has been joined onstage by Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, John Prine, Bruce Springsteen (with whom he recorded a duet on his album Awake), Joan Baez, Evan Dando, David Baddiel, Rick Moody, Tanya Donelly, Josh Ritter, Andrew Bird, Rosanne Cash, Colin Meloy, Scott MacCaughey and Robyn Hitchcock, among others. His songs have been featured in films (including High Fidelity) and covered by other artists. Harding/Stace's first novel, the international bestseller Misfortune, was published to great acclaim in 2004 by Little, Brown, and Jonathan Cape. It was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, listed as one of the books of the year in the Washington Post and the Boston Phoenix, and was one of Amazon’s Top Ten Novels of the Year. His second novel, By George, was published in August 2007; it was one of the New York Public Library’s Books To Remember of 2007, and Booklist Editor’s Choice for books of the year. His third, Charles Jessold, Considered As A Murderer, was published in July 2010 by Jonathan Cape in the UK to excellent reviews: “The most confident musical fiction I have read in years” (New Statesman), “Stace’s artistry makes our language a continual surprise” (The Independent), “Inventive black comedy unfolding with Nabokovian precision” (Financial Times). It was published in the USA by Picador in February 2011.
Over a 15-year career in music, Joe Pernice has made 13 full-length records. He began in the mid-90’s, with Scud Mountain Boys, who released two albums (Pine Box and Dance the Night Away, later compiled as The Early Year) before signing to Sub Pop and releasing Massachusetts, considered by many to be an alt-country masterpiece. In 1998, Pernice disbanded the Scuds and assembled Pernice Brothers, recording Overcome By Happiness (Sub Pop), called “a startling slice of beauty” by The New York Times and “A thing of pernicious beauty indeed” by The Irish Times. In 1999 and 2000, he re- leased two records, under the names Chappaquiddick Skyline and Big Tobacco. In 2009 Joe Pernice published his first novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop; Pernice's record label, Ashmont Records, released a soundtrack of the same name, featuring Pernice covering songs referenced in the novel.
Rick Moody's first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor’s Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. The Ice Storm was published in May 1994 by Little, Brown and Company. A film version, directed by Ang Lee, was released by Fox Searchlight in 1997, and won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. A collection of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven was also published by Little, Brown in August 1995. The title story was the winner of the 1994 Aga Khan Award from The Paris Review. Moody’s third novel, Purple America, was published in April 1997. Foreign editions have appeared widely. An anthology, edited with Darcey Steinke, Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited, also appeared in November 1997. In 1998, Moody received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2000, he received a Guggenheim fellowship. In May of 2002, Little, Brown and Company issued The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions, which was a winner of the NAMI/Ken Book Award, and the PEN Martha Albrand prize for excellence in the memoir. His novel The Diviners appeared in 2005, and won the Mary Shelley Award from the Media Ecology Association. His album Rick Moody and One Ring Zero was released in 2004, and The Wingdale Community Singers, in which he plays and writes lyrics, have released two albums, the most recent of which is Spirit Duplicator.
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