I know that you have come to expect HITH to provide not just quality headliners but also quality opening acts. This year we have had some incredible support for our headliners. Kim Richey brought in Stevie Ann from the Netherlands, Tom Panei brought in support from all over the country, Chad Elliott brought in Bejae Fleming who had toured extensively with Townes van Zandt and Eric Tayor, and for this next show we bring Matthew Ryan to open for Greg Trooper.
Matthew Ryan is preparing to release his 18th album. In the middle of his career he was an A&M artist releasing with a national label. That ended only after A&M merged and scaled back. Our opener…a national recording artist living here amongst us. Here’s what Paste Magazine had to say about him…” Matthew Ryan is celebrated for his music and perhaps most of all for his lyrics, but it was that voice that hooked me, right in the opening seconds of his debut album May Day. “Here comes the razor of doubt/ Here comes the falling out…” A striking couplet to begin an album, to be sure, and in many ways a fitting prelude to every lyric that came from Ryan in the years to come. But the voice that delivered them to the ear was something else altogether—ragged, haunted, desperate. He sang at times through half clenched teeth, as though he just couldn’t keep the words in no matter how hard he tried”.
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And, he will be followed by Greg Trooper from NYC. Here’s what Flying Shoes says about Greg, “Singer-songwriter Greg Trooper is one those acts who really knows how to dig out a groove and ride with it, and he writes great songs too. Big question is why is it he isn’t better known. After all Incident On Willow Street is his 11th album in 27 years…
Trooper’s songs are pretty much a rollercoaster of emotions as he deals with hope, doubt and general uncertainty of many people’s lives in today’s ever-changing, fast-paced world. Talking of world, Greg draws on those far off places he has visited in Europe, Amsterdam and Ireland as he reaches for a brighter future (“Steel Deck Bridge”, “All The Way To Amsterdam”) and in “Mary Of The Scotts In Queens” his lyrics lament of ‘Irish Brian’, his immense build and how he sleeps with sweet Mary”.
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Don’t believe all the hype? Come out and judge for yourself.
Friday 9th May, 2014 7:00pm.
Bottlebrush Gallery & Center for the Arts
539 Main Street “On the Square”
Harmony, PA 16037
$15.00
Limited Seating ~ RSVP Required – 724.452.0539
