BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. – Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry are an exquisite pairing – impeccable musicianship, perfect harmonies, and all the chemistry and banter you’d expect from musicians who have been touring and playing around the world together for over 20 years. They will perform on Saturday, April 11, in a 3 p.m. matinee show, at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vt. Carling Berkhout will open. Tickets are a discounted in advance at www.stage33live.com, or can be purchased at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance ticket sales will automatically close once 40 tickets are sold, or at midnight the day before the show if not sold out. Advance tickets guarantee entry.
Grammer, called “one of the finest pure musicians in folkdom” by the Boston Globe, is among contemporary folk music’s most beloved artists, renowned for her pure voice, deft guitar and violin work, and incantatory storytelling. She has recorded and performed with Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eliza Gilkyson, and many more; headlined top festivals, including Philadelphia Folk and Falcon Ridge, where she holds the record for the most consecutive appearances; and has been one of folk radio’s top-played artists for years, both solo and with the late Dave Carter, with whom she performed and recorded from 1996 until his fatal heart attack mid-tour in 2002.
Henry is an accomplished singer, songwriter, producer, and one of folk and Americana’s go-to multi-instrumentalists. He was recently on the road for three years with Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter. His arsenal includes acoustic and electric guitars, Dobro, and mandolin, and his trademark ambient textures and sparkling solos can be heard on hundreds of songwriter albums.
Berkhout will open. Her dad has roots as a folkie songster, and her mom as a symphonic cellist. When she was a child, she played Beatles songs backward in her friend’s rabbit-themed bedroom that the two believed was haunted. She continues to both unravel and glue together her life’s complicated musical threads in a sonic world that exists somewhere between bedroom rock and the dynamic balance of a David Rawlings & Gillian Welch record.