Acoustic Night
at the Bama Theatre’s Greensboro Room
Featuring:
Jil Chambless
With
Dylan Sneed
March 23 at 7:30pm; Doors open at 7pm
$5 cover
Drink Specials
JIL CHAMBLESS
“Jil Chambless is without a doubt one of America’s top Celtic music vocalists and musicians.” A native of Montgomery, Alabama, Jil moved to Tuscaloosa to attend the University of Alabama and has been there ever since. Jil was first introduced to Celtic music in the late 1980s when she joined the band Henri’s Notions. Since then she has been performing at concerts and festivals all over the US as well as abroad. During her tenure, Henri’s Notions has completed six recording projects and now Jil has finally completed her first solo recording, “The Ladies Go Dancing.” Jil still performs with the band Henri’s Notions, but also in a trio with Ed Miller and Scooter Muse, and as a duo with Scooter Muse and with the Vogt Family Contra Band.
“A truly great singer” – Brian McNeill
“One of the best singers of Scots and Irish songs I know” – Ed Miller
“I have heard and dealt with many Celtic bands over the years – none with such delight as with Henri’s Notions! their beautifully executed tunes along with Jil Chambless’s superb voice provided a smooth complement to our festival’s traditional Scottish flavor.” – Deb Dalziel, Entertainment Chariman, Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Ontario, Canada
“Great vocals by Jil Chambless” – Steve Winick, Music Critic, Dirty Linen Magazine
DYLAN SNEED
In mid-April 2010 Americana songwriter Dylan Sneed met five friends in a 100-year-old farmhouse in the low country of South Carolina to record his latest album, Texodus. The five-day session was a flurry of activity, as the group worked day and night tracking 14 songs. And best of all, it was all paid for before they even pushed “record.”
During the previous two months Dylan raised money to fund the recording project through the website Kickstarter.com. His fans came through, pledging 120% of the budget. All told, Dylan raised over $8,000 from donations on and off the website. He has planned a grassroots release campaign for the album that will begin in late summer 2010.
The Dallas Observer described Sneed’s music as “the best side of true Americana: music of passion and skill that can move an audience with a whisper or a roar.” Kevin Oliver of the SC Free Times likens Sneed to “a sober Townes Van Zandt,” and said “Sneed’s songs give a contemporary spin to the Lone Star country and folk of Guy Clark, Steve Earle and others, coming out more like the acerbically literate North Carolina songwriters Jonathan Byrd or Malcolm Holcombe.”
“Like a sober Townes Van Zandt.” - Kevin Oliver, SC Free Times
“Sneed represents the best side of true Americana: music of passion and skill that can move an audience with a whisper or a roar.” - Darryl Smyers, The Dallas Observer
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