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A Concert for Friendship House
This intimate concert is a benefit to raise funds for Nashville's oldest meeting place for people who want to recover from alcoholism. All three of the performers are passionate about helping people with alcoholism find recovery, and are donating their time and talent for this concert.
John Hiatt
Over thirty-five years after the release of his debut album, John Hiatt remains one of America's most respected and influential singer-songwriters. As an artist, he has released over two dozen albums, including the Grammy nominated Walk On. In the past few years alone, Hiatt has been honored with his own star on Nashville's Walk of Fame, received the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Emmylou Harris, Iggy Pop, Rosanne Cash (the #1 country hit "The Way We Make A Broken Heart"), the Jeff Healey Band ("Angel Eyes"), and Willie Nelson. He was named Best Male Vocalist in Rolling Stone's annual Critics Poll. John Hiatt has been called "one of rock's most astute singer-songwriters of the last 40 years." by the Los Angeles Times.
Jon Vezner is a tunesmith of rare sensitivity and dry wit. He is a Nashville based, Grammy award-winning songwriter. His catalogue of recorded songs, topped by the poignant "Where've You Been," reflects his straight-to-the heart sensibility and emotional awareness. Vezner weaves the particulars of his own feelings with the lives of people he has known into universal themes that deeply touch listeners' emotions.
Vezner was honored with a Grammy for "Best Country Song" and the Nashville Songwriters Association "Song of the Year" in 1990, for "Where've You Been", the true story of Vezner's grandparents, co-written with Don Henry, and recorded by Kathy Mattea. "Where've You Been" was also honored as "Song of the Year" by the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM).
Jon's catalogue of songs reads like a songbook itself, interpreted and recorded by the greats in the business as varied as the songs themselves; artists such as Martina McBride, Janis Ian, John Mellencamp, Nancy Griffith, Faith Hill, Clay Walker, Diamond Rio and Native American recording artist, Bill Miller. Other co-penned songs recorded by Kathy Mattea include "A Few Good Things Remain," "Time Passes By," "Whole Lotta Holes," "Slow Boat," "Who's Gonna Know," "All Roads to the River," "The Innocent Years," "Calling My Name," "Trust Me," and most recently the touching ballad "Ashes in the Wind." Singles written by Vezner include "If I Didn't Love You" by Steve Warriner, "Has Anybody Seen Amy" by John and Audrey Wiggins, "Then What" by Clay Walker, and "You're Gone" by Diamond Rio.
Mary Gauthier says that "As a songwriter, I'm always trying to go to the deepest possible place inside of me. Past the navel-gazing, past the self-conscious, to get to that 'we, cause deep inside of all of us is the universal. And that is an artist's job, to transcend the self. I'm in there, but then hopefully, it goes past that and it hits something far, far bigger and more important than me. That's what I'm aimin' for every time I write."
Gauthier is a Louisiana native turned Nashville resident whose songs have earned praise from Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. Her album, Drag Queens in Limousines won in the First Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song, and she was nominated for Best New Artist of the year by the Boston Music Awards. She was nominated for three Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA) and won best country artist of the year. In 2002 her third album, Filth and Fire, was named "Best Indy CD of the year" by Jon Pareles of The New York Times. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2001 and secured a publishing deal with Harlan Howard Songs, then secured a record deal with Lost Highway, a division of Universal Music, in 2003. Her first major label release, in 2005, Mercy Now was on the top 10 list for the year in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News, and Billboard Magazine.
She was awarded "New Artist of the Year" by The Americana Music Association the same year. Mercy Now was voted the No.6 Record of the Decade by No Depression magazine.[5] Her second Lost Highway release, Between Daylight and Dark, appeared in September 2007. She has had her songs recorded by numerous artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Bill Chambers, Mike Farris and Candi Staton. Her songs have been used in several TV shows, including Nashville on ABC, Masterpiece Theatre's Case Histories, Showtime's Banshee, and HBO's Injustice.
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LocationWorld Music Nashville (View)
7069 U.S. 70S
Nashville, TN 37221
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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