An intimate evening with a renowned musician Jolie Holland Live
***LIMITED SEATING***
TICKETS $25
Those of you lucky enough to join us last January for an incredible will understand when we say this is a rare opportunity to be up-close to the American multi-instrumentalist, producer, bandleader and singer-songwriter Jolie Holland. She is joined by Ben Boye, the multi-instrumentalist who has worked with many jazz, indie rock, and folk musicians. Boye has provided stunning accompaniments on many collaborations, with pianos, synthesizers, pump organs, and occasionally autoharp, to recordings for artists as wide-ranging as outsider folkie Bonnie "Prince" Billy and garage iconoclast Ty Segall.
This evening will have a mere 30 seats available for guests; tickets are $25. We'll be offering drinks and light fare, as well as a free broadside printed on the Ruth Stone House Letterpress to take home with you to commemorate the evening.
As parking and seating is limited, (please carpool!) grab you tickets now at Eventbrite (see event link) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jolie-holland-live-at-ruth-stone-house-tickets-995641740247
Avant-folk luminary from Southeast Texas...
Jolie Holland, is a storyteller of an expansive Americana like no other. Her early musical achievements include co-founding the Be Good Tanyas and solo albums that garnered praise from Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, and St. Vincent. Drawing from her experience escaping her upbringing in a Christian Fundamentalist cult and squatting in Austin among itinerant artists who then travelled as a collective to New Orleans and Colorado, Holland's music has restless spirit that twines together twangy transient grit with an iridescent ghostliness. Over her twenty year career, she's made music in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Brooklyn, staying in cities long enough to write lyrics about red-winged blackbirds in the Sunset District and mockingbirds in Williamsburg, but there's a sense she's most in tune with herself driving across highways, swapping stories as motorcycles and marshlands roll by. Holland is a master at depicting liminal psychic states and draws from a wide range of lyrical influences.
Her album, Wine Dark Sea, refers to a phrase from the Odyssey about the shade of the Aegan Sea, and weaves the Homeric epic with Hattian Vodoun that reflect her grandmother's Creole roots in New Orleans, crafting her own mysterious journey across frozen sidewalks and dark bars under "the bright bronze sky".
Her latest album, Haunted Mountain, is laden with a revolutionary consciousness, an atmospheric exploration of living on the margins that includes anti-patriarchal dance music, an anti-fascist love song, and always the call to fight oppression with "the sacred significance of humanity being in reciprocity with nature". Many of the songs were co-written with Buck Meek, of Big Thief, who released an album of the same name in 2023 and joins her on "Highway 72", a track about navigating the perpetual lost highway of life, one foot after another. "What ties together all of Haunted Mountain's wondrous nine tracks is Holland's smoky, lived-through voice, which is situated somewhere between Karen Dalton, Norah Jones, and later-era Lucinda Williams." (No Depression)Her first new album in nearly ten years, Holland proves that she will always be a prolific songwriter whose mission is to "watch the stars roll every night" and capture something pressing and prophetic about ourselves under the opal-like moon.
Live on KEXP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhdRcikIrM