Event

Mark Erelli

We regret to inform you that the Mark Erelli concert for Saturday, March 1 has been cancelled due to concerns about severe winter weather Saturday night and Sunday (when Mark would have to drive from Lawrence to Oklahoma). For refund information, please email westsidefolk@yahoo.com
Sorry! We hated to do this, but thought it best for the safety of our artist, our volunteers, and our audience.

Mark Erelli travels his own road that both embodies and challenges our expectations of a singer/songwriter. Erelli has tackled everything from western swing and protest songs to lullabies and murder ballads, all in a richly expressive voice that Twangville.com heralds as "the male counterpart to Neko Case." It is a journey that has taken Erelli from church basement coffeehouses to the main stage of the Newport Folk Festival, stopping briefly along the way to sing the national anthem at Fenway Park.

Erelli is also an in-demand multi-instrumentalist sideman. These days, fans are just as likely to find Erelli backing up Lori McKenna at the Grand Ole Opry, or Josh Ritter at London's Royal Albert Hall, as they are to see a solo acoustic performance at venerable listening rooms like Harvard Square's Club Passim. Some might see chasing both a timeless lyric and an exquisite lap steel guitar solo as mutually exclusive endeavors, but not Erelli.