Jesse Hanson in Concert w/ Luke Concannon at Paradise Cafe Saturday February 21st 8:30 - 10:30 PM. Free admission, all ages, dinner, beer and wine.

Before doodling songs, Jesse has trained her whole conscious life to be a well-developed violinist, having been a member of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra for 7 years as well as a multitude of various Boston-based classical ensembles. Additionally, she has been exposed to Celtic and Bluegrass music her whole life and has placed in every regional competition she has competed in, including her most recent acquisition of the New England Country Music Organization’s “Bluegrass Instrumentalist of the year 2013” and “Instrumental Duo of the year 2013” with Ashley Jordan.

Luke Concannon:

“Political, intense, angular, and beautiful” BBC Radio 1

Luke Concannon was born to an Anglo-Irish home, full of folk and soul music. In his teens he got in to hip-hop, and today, his songs tell stories about social justice, spirituality, and intimacy. Mega star Ed Sheeran, called Luke’s song ‘I want to be free’ ;‘one of my favorite songs of the year.’

In Two Thousand and Nine, Luke Hitch hiked from England to Palestine: A bear found him in the woods one night in Transylvania, he was taken in by a Turkish family (who’s hospitality inspired his first solo single ‘Around the World’) later, eventually arriving in Palestine, to volunteer as a peace worker.

This trip was the inspiration for his first solo album ‘Give It All’, a radical, passionate, full on folk record. ‘A beautiful album, full of joy, sadness and honesty, it swept me away’ (The vault)

Luke is also one half of the Folk-Hip-Hop duo ‘Nizlopi’, a popular act on the UK scene. Who have released four albums from their own label (Selling over a million copies) and toured the UK, Ireland and Europe Extensively. Luke is splitting his time between London, and Boston (Where his beloved lives) and is beginning to share his music, and work in America.

Luke has an amazing biography, if you would like to learn more please go to his Website (It’s linked below.) and read all about him. It’s too much to print here.