Jonathan Byrd and Sally Barris to Co-bill at Lombard's Historic Chapel

LOMBARD IL – Maple Street Chapel Folk Concerts is thrilled to present a double bill of award-winning ​Americana singer-songwriters Jonathan Byrd and Sally Barris on Saturday, April 18, 2015. The show starts at 7:30pm at Maple Street Chapel, located at 220 S. Main Street in Lombard. Tickets are $15. To purchase tickets in advance or for more information, visit folk.maplestreetchapel.org, or call 630-627-0171. Tickets may also be purchased at the door via cash/check only and doors open at 7:00pm.

The concert will consist of Jonathan Byrd in a return appearance to Maple Street, starting off the first set and then turning it over to Sally Barris (who’ll be debuting at the venue) to finish up before a brief intermission. The two will join forces during the second set to swap songs and play along with each other. Multi-instrumentalist, Johnny Waken, will be on hand to add some additional sound (including playing the saw and mandolin).

A Jonathan Byrd show is musical theater, bringing together the Texas songwriting tradition with southern storytelling and hot guitar picking in the line of North Carolina greats Doc Watson and Tony Rice. The Chicago Tribune has called Byrd, “One of the top 50 songwriters of the past 50 years.”

In 2000, Byrd quit the rock bands of his youth and hit the road solo, flatpicking and singing new songs in an old style. ​Word began to spread in 2003, when Jonathan won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s ‘New Folk’ songwriting competition, a milestone for Americana’s most influential artists: Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Nanci Griffith, and Lyle Lovett. Byrd broke the record for CD sales at the festival, and has played there nearly every year since.

“[Byrd] has John Prine’s gift for stark little songs that tell big, complex stories, Guy Clark’s lean melodicism, Lyle Lovett’s wry mischief, and Bill Morrissey’s knack for the revealing image,” claims Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe.

Most recently, Jonathan won a 2011 SESAC Americana Music Award beside Bob Dylan, Seth Avett, Hayes Carll, Jim Lauderdale, and Colin Brooks from The Band of Heathens.

​Byrd will be joined by ​Sally Barris for this concert, an A-list Nashville songwriter​. Barris has had songs covered by such top-level artists as Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, and Lee Ann Womack. Her song, “Let The Wind Chase You,” recorded by Trisha Yearwood and Keith Urban, received a Grammy nomination for vocal collaboration in 2009.

While her writing credits are mightily impressive, fans and peers are most captivated by her bright spirit and expressive mountain soprano voice. “Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her,” says country legend Kathy Mattea. “Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center.”

When Sally is not touring solo or joining forces with other stellar musicians, she is known as “Sister Waymore” in the power trio; The Waymores with Tom Kimmel and Don Henry. Sally also tours regionally as “Sally Barris & The Birmingham Boys” with Chas Williams on dobro and Jason Bailey on mandolin and harmony vocals.

For more information on JONATHAN BYRD, visit www.jonathanbyrd.com; and for SALLY BARRIS, visit www.sallybarris.com.

For Additional Information:

http://www.folk.maplestreetchapel.org/

https://www.facebook.com/events/604958082968501/

https://www.facebook.com/MapleStreetChapel.Folk

http://www.jonathanbyrd.com/

https://www.facebook.com/jonathanbyrdmusic

http://sallybarris.com/

https://www.facebook.com/SallyBarris

Saturday, April 18, 2015; 7:30pm; $15

Maple Street Chapel Folk Concerts

220 S Main Street Lombard, IL 60148

www.folk.maplestreetchapel.org

maplestreetfolk@gmail.com

630-627-0171