Goh Nakamura + Brandon Shane Luedtke + The Waysties + Mother Merey and the Black Dirt +Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands @ The Way Station

7pm- Goh Nakamura
Genre:  Singer Songwriter/ Acoustic
For fans of:  Elvis Costello, Elliott Smith, Neil Finn

Goh Nakamura is a San Francisco Bay Area based musician who writes ditties about parking tickets, impossible crushes and faraway dreamlands. A fortuitous 2007 feature on YouTube's front page brought his music videos over a million views and earned him a huge new fanbase from all over the world.  Goh's talents have also found a home in the film industry on the scores to Ridley Scott films “A Good Year” “American Gangster” and “Body of Lies.” Recently, Goh starred in two indie feature films that debuted at SXSW, “Surrogate Valentine” and “Daylight Savings.”

http://gohnakamura.com
http://www.youtube.com/gohnakamura
http://soundcloud.com/gohnakamura/sets/ulysses-1

8pm- Brandon Shane Luedtke
Genre: Folk
For fans of: Mississippi John Hurt, Blaze Foley, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt

Brandon Shane Luedtke was born in Texas and has lived a few other places in the Midwest and briefly in New York City. Most important to Brandon is songwriting, and he carries on in the tradition of the songster by playing mainly songs he has written over the years. He sometimes supplements those songs with traditionals and cover songs that inspired him to write those originals. Brandon has spent his last few years playing around Austin but is starting to cover more ground.

https://soundcloud.com/brandonluedtke
www.facebook.com/brandonshaneluedtke
https://soundcloud.com/brandonluedtke/one-of-these-days
 
9pm- The Waysties
The Waysties leave their barstools and take the stage for a night of raucous Irish songs and Irished-up rock covers. Featuring The Rose West's Alex and Robare, Painless Parker's Noam, Molly  of Mist Covered Mountains and Sarah Biz.

10pm- Mother Merey and the Black Dirt
Genre: Roots/Country Blues
For fans of: Delta Blues, Country,

A dust colored, rickety and road-worn minivan pulls up in the lane next to you. You don't really think twice until a sharp rev of the engine erupts in a cloud of smoke and rust that slowly rises from the battered windstar. The lights are on, windows tinted. The light turns green and the next thing you know that minivan is burning rubber on its way to sixty in five seconds flat, throwing rocks from the road and leaving two dark plumes of burnt rubber in its wake. Where is it going? Down to the river. Based in Austin, TX, band members include:
Mother Merey Kimbrough(washboard/vocals)
Eric Witthans (resonator/slide guitar/vocals)
Kevin Allen (harp/vocals)

"Mother Merey & the Black Dirt are the greatest band of all time! Okay, that may be hyperbole, but they sure were good." -Steve Jones, San Marcos Tonight

"Stunning slide guitar from Witthans, extremely on point harmonica from the barefoot-stomping Allen, and smooth captivating singing from Kimbrough. Excellent contrast between energetic, whimsical, and more traditional pieces, and good pacing throughout. Easily one of the absolute best performances I saw at (though unrelated to) SXSW 2013, and probably the one I enjoyed the most. The studio album Down to the River is highly recommended." -Pavel Konov WHQS.ORG

"I was but a wee lad back when Canned Heat came on the scene and freaked me out with their jug blues/boogie and I continue to go back to the orignal line up with Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson, Bob "The Bear" Hite, Henry "Sunflower" Vestine releases for my fix of gritty rootsy, bluesy folk. Austin's Mother Merey and the Black Dirt just changed that, they've got the missing ingredient, vocalist Merey Kimbrough's uncomparable singing over a slide resonator guitar and a boot stomping drum beat is addictive listening." -Popa Tunes (No Depression)

"Everyone knows that, though I live in San Francisco, my heart is back home in Texas. So it does me proud to hear bands like Mother Merey and the Black Dirt gritty blues/folk representing in Austin’s juke joints. Down to the River is the excellent, boot-stomping title track from their upcoming debut. The cut blends lead vocalist Merey Kimbrough’s honey-sweet vocals and spiritual imagery with rhythmic acoustic guitar, pounding drum and swarming harmonica to create a hoedown hybrid. I love music that sounds classic in the midst of evolving. Music that stays true to the spirit and legacy of the deep musical well it draws from." -Baron Lane (Twang Nation)

www.theblackdirt.com
youtube.com/mothersdirt
 
11pm- Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands
Genre: carnivalesque world folk
For fans of: Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tom Waits

It has been a very busy year for Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands, with over 150 shows from Canada to Austin, TX and New Orleans to Nashville in support of the latest release, "Muses and Bones." The album has received press and glowing reviews in the US and Europe, as well as radio play in the US, UK and Canada, including NPR and BBC appearances. Bright is rising through the ranks quickly and performed with the North Carolina Symphony in 2011 on an arrangement of her song "Toy Hammer," at SXSW and Savannah Stopover in 2013 where she was highlighted by Savannah Now as one of the “Must See” acts, was featured as one of the On the Rise performers at Floydfest 2013, and will be featured at DragonCon 2013.

The group has an eclectic, haunting but yet whimsical, carnivalesque world folk sound. Singer/Songwriter Crystal Bright plays accordion, musical saw, concertina, piano, Taiko drum, adungu (Ugandan harp), and various others, "leaving people captivated with her operatic & soulful vocals and virtuoso command of her various instruments."

"So where to begin? Words that come to mind listening to this are, (deep breath..) carnivals, mariachi, Kate Bush, musicals, Tim Burton, Goldfrapp, burlesque, Calexico, Eastern Europe gypsies, Gogol Bordello, Jazz, Devotchka, old timey, cabaret, fables, dark fairy tales and a hundred others, really. I could go on. It is a very intriguing record indeed and almost impossible to categorise, but hopefully you’ve got an idea of what this may sounds like. It’s a record for freaks and thinkers, healers and hippies, the cool and the curious and for people who just want a little more, or just want something, even if they don‘t know what it is exactly. The playing is majestic, the atmospheres convincing and compelling and the overall sound is simply marvellous. At times dark, at times playful, its mysterious and beguiling and one can only assume Tim Burton hasn’t heard her yet, or she would already be known, at least to fans of his. A splendid release. It's hard to believe she's unsigned"   - Scott Baxter, Americana UK

"Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands toe a fascinating line, making for either an uncommonly dignified circus sideshow or a melodramatic, gorgeous Eastern European street performance. Think Tori Amos with Tom Waits' sense of humor, or maybe a Tim Burton film with the steampunk quotient maxed. Their recent Muses and Bones is immersive and beguiling, alternating between reckless klezmer and enormous gothic ballads." - Corbie Hill, Independent Weekly

www.crystalbrightandthesilverhands.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrQiCKeJsz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5eWwAmOGI