Tuesday Night Live: Freddy Parish and the Old Town String Band
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jun 1, 2021 7:30pm
Location
Hotel Congress
311 E Congress St
Details
With special guest Mama Coal!
Freddy Parish grew up in Sonoma County, California, just down the road from where Jack London wrote "Valley of the Moon," named for the mythic translation of the Miwok "Sonoma." His Arkansas born father inspired a lifelong love of country music, from the poetry of John Prine, to the gentle love songs of Don Williams. After spending a year of high school studying abroad on the Baltic Coast in Ainazi, Latvia, he went on to spend his formative years traveling the country taking odd jobs and writing songs, and later returned to school to study Music Composition, Audio Production, and Poetry at the Evergreen State College in Washington.
After spending time in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, Freddy began tracing back the roots of country music, along with his own Ozark family heritage, in a study of old time fiddle and banjo traditions. In 2018 he won 1st place for old time banjo at the West Virginia Open Fiddle and Banjo Contest. Upon settling in the Southwestern border town of Tucson, Arizona, he founded the Old Town String Band, who in 2018 released a collection of traditional songs and tunes entitled "Last Chance." The group has since established a monthly residency to showcase old time and traditional country music at Tucson's downtown listening room El Crisol, along with being featured at the yearly Tucson Folk Festival.
Freddy continues to pursue his own more contemporary songwriting in the Country, Roots, and Americana genres through story telling, poetic imagery, and themes of heartache and love, existentialist dread and hope, and the ever beckoning open road. A new EP of these songs is currently in post production and planned to be released in 2021.
Tickets available at Hotel Congress Front Desk, online at www.hotelcongress.com, and at the door.
As always limited seating and covid protocols are strictly enforced to ensure the safety of our guests and staff.
