Event

Abbie Gardner @ Dragonfly Cafe 2/26

Abbie Gardner w/Jon Paul Ruggieri on guitar
February 26, 2017 @ 6PM
Dragonfly Cafe
14 East Main
Somerville, NJ
(908)-393-4993
Price: $15 advance / $20 door
www.abbiegardner.com
www.dragonflymusicandcoffee.com

Intimate solo show, showcasing some brand new songs and dobro arrangements with Jon Paul on guitar and harmonies.

Abbie Gardner, the fiery Dobro player with an infectious smile has been touring with Americana darlings Red Molly for the past eleven years. After gracing stages from Denver to Denmark, from Australia to Austin, the band decided to take an indefinite hiatus in 2015, so Abbie is striking out on her own! No stranger to solo performing, she has three CDs to draw from, each with award-winning songs. Tales of love and loss, both gritty and sweet, ride the back of her by-now familiar, formidable slide guitar licks. She channels Lucinda and Bonnie, but remains pure Abbie.

Abbie has been recognized as an award-winning songwriter, as well, with such accolades as; 2008 Lennon Award Winner (folk) for The Mind of a Soldier and 2008 American Songwriter Magazine Grand Prize Lyric Winner for Id Rather Be. Her song Honey on My Grave was also published in Sing Out! Magazine in 2008. In 2016 she headlined the Virginia Arts Fringe Festival, Rhode Island Folk Festival and co-billed with Brooks Williams, Jesse Terry and Jim Henry. Her first songbook was published in December 2016 and shes looking forward to recording a new solo CD in early 2017.

With a confidence that can only be earned, Gardner bursts out with a national steel guitar and a ballsy blues on the opening cut Break It Slow. Its an unprecedented romp, fully of gnarly guitar lines and lyrics reminiscent of Lucinda Williams or Bonnie Raitt.. Eli Peterson, Twangville