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SUMMARY:Spotlight on Singer-Songwriters presented with FAR-West
DESCRIPTION:Advance online and phone sales are closed. General Admission tickets available at the door ($28 cash\, $30 card). Doors open at 7pm. Concert at 8pm. \nHear four singer-songwriters led by Abby Posner with Jessica Childress\, Great Willow and Paula Fong. \nGrand Vision and FAR-West collaborated to put this Spotlight Series line-up together through a generous grant from the Live Music Society. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				FAR-West is the West Coast affiliate of Folk Alliance International. FAR-West offers creative and business resources for musicians\, presenters and others in the folk-Americana communities of the western US and Canada. For the last several years\, they have been placing the FAR-West Presents concert series at venues throughout LA. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Abby Posner is the 2023 USA Songwriting Competition winner and multi-instrumentalist known for her passionate and versatile musicianship across folk\, roots\, and pop genres. In addition to her upbeat performances\, her music has been featured in TV\, films\, and radio worldwide\, including The Fosters\, This American Life\, and Last Tango in Halifax\, as well as campaigns for Facebook and Viacom-CBS. She also appeared in Fox’s Glee and Ken Burns’ PBS Country Music documentary campaign. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Paula Fong is an Americana singer-songwriter from Los Angeles with a sound that can vary from lilting trad folk\, to upbeat country\, to soulful grit. She currently sings back up vocals and tours with Abby Posner\, is musical director for an Americana/folk music church service in the South Bay\, and released her first solo EP\, Chestnut Mare\, in the fall of 2024. Americana Highways Magazine says her music is “deeply rooted in a folky tradition . . . . with gentle brush strokes of Country zeal and Bluegrass sweeps.”  \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Jessica Childress has opened for Earth\, Wind and Fire\, The Family Stone\, and Patti LaBelle\, among others. Her voice can be heard in major motion pictures like Coming 2 America and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Her original music has been featured on Hulu’s Good Trouble as well as several Hallmark movies and elsewhere. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Great Willow is the LA-based Americana duo James Combs and Erin Hawkins. Praised by leading Americana music magazine No Depression as “the perfectly combined voices…the stuff legends are made of\,” their harmonies and songwriting recently earned them an invitation to play main stage set at the Love Street Festival in Laurel Canyon – along with members of legendary ’60s bands\, The Doors and The Mamas and The Papas.
URL:https://grandvision.org/event/spotlight-series-co-presented-with-far-west-folk-alliance/
LOCATION:The Grand Annex\, 434 W. 6th St.\, San Pedro\, CA\, 90731
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Grand Vision Season,The Grand Annex
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