Eliza Gilkyson

Opening Act: Gretchen Peters

Roaring Brook regulars know why Red House recording artist ELIZA GILKYSON has received many recent honors including a Grammy nomination, two Austin Music Awards and four Folk Alliance Awards. She received standing ovations at both of her RBNC shows. This Is Texas Music, hails her as “one of the most original and influential folk artists of our time.”

Offering a very generous set of music tonight, she performs material from her new CD YOUR TOWN TONIGHT and her previous titles PARADISE HOTEL, LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, LOST AND FOUND; and HARD TIMES IN BABYLON. The Boston Globe praises her work as ‘’masterfully structured, startlingly intimate songs in a beautfully lived-in voice”. Concert highlights include “Tender Mercies”, “Man of God”, “Not Lonely”, Woody Guthrie’s “Peace Call” and her dad Terry Gilkyson’s song “Greenfields”.

Nashville songwriter/gultarist and Folkway magazine's Artist Of The Year Award winner GRETCHEN PETERS performs her RBNC debut opening set with songs from her new CD BURNT TOAST & OFFERINGS.