SOLD OUT 5/15/16 Jamie Lawson/Amy Vachal

A seasoned performer in the Irish music scene, acoustic singer-songwriter Jamie Lawson found fame when one of his tracks became an overnight YouTube sensation. Born and raised in Plymouth, England, Lawson picked up the guitar at age eight and began his musical career while being influenced by Crowded House, R.E.M., and Leonard Cohen while still in school. He released his debut album, Last Night Stars, in his own Allotment Recordings label in 2003, though it wasn't until his second album seven years later that he found greater success. The Pull of the Moon was released in 2010, but it took off a year later when the YouTube video for one of its tracks, "Wasn't Expecting That," was played on Ireland's biggest station, Today FM, on the Breakfast Show. The song became the station's most requested track and launched his chart career in his adopted homeland. In 2015, Lawson became the first act signed to Ed Sheeran's Warner Brothers imprint, Gingerbread Records. His self-titled LP arrived later that year.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, singer-songwriter Amy Vachal wrote her first songs while recovering from a traumatic lacrosse injury in college. After independently releasing her EP, Appleseed, in 2011, she moved to New York, which started a journey of writing on trains, working in restaurants, and playing shows in small clubs throughout the city. Three years later she released her second EP, Crinkle Bloom, under Rockwood Recordings. A YouTube video of Vachal singing "Dream a Little Dream" prompted her invite to audition for NBC’s hit show, The Voice, where she finished as a semifinalist, performing weekly to a live primetime network audience. She received critical acclaim for her creative renditions of cover songs that charted as high as no. 4 on the overall iTunes rankings and no. 24 on Billboard’s Digital Songs chart. Vachal ended her run on the show with four consecutive overall top 10 songs on iTunes. Afterwards, she returned to Brooklyn and has been touring across the U.S., workshopping new material to record. Vachal is expected to cut her next batch of songs in the coming months, with a release date of summer 2016.