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Eliza Gilkyson and Nina Gerber

Over the course of 13 albums, Eliza Gilkyson has built a reputation as one of the most original and influential troubadours of our time
Join her and the superb Nina Gerber as they stop in at the Playhouse on their 2016 West Coast tour!

Eliza Gilkyson is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist who is one of the most respected musicians in Folk, Roots and Americana circles. Her songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Tom Rush and Rosanne Cash and have appeared in films, PBS specials and on prime-time TV. A member of the Austin Music Hall of Fame, she has won countless Folk Alliance and Austin Music awards, including 2014s Songwriter of the Year.

Elizas music has always offered a vivid reflection of the times we live in, full of joys and sorrows, each song a window into a life of struggle and triumph in a world she feels is poised on the edge of moral, economic and environmental bankruptcy.

In 2014, she received a Grammy-nomination for her Red House Records release, The Nocturne Diaries. Produced by her son, Cisco Ryder, it is a restless contemplative work inspired by the converging forces of her highest hopes and darkest fears.

On stage, Eliza presents a vibrant mix of laugh-til-you-cry storytelling, political diatribe, love songs ranging from the global to the most intimate, and some of the best support players in the world.

Bay Area favorite daughter, guitarist Nina Gerber has performed and recorded with Karla Bonoff, Peter Rowan, Nanci Griffith, Greg Brown, Lucy Kaplansky, Mollie O'Brien, Dave Alvin, Rosalie Sorrels, Laurie Lewis, Terry Garthwaite, and Kate Wolf, with whom Nina started her musical career. Her album Good Music with Good People features outstanding live performances with Jackson Browne, Bruce Cockburn, and Eliza, among others.