Hartford
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Fri, February 19, 2016
Hartford, CT
Show: 8:30 PM
Ticket INFO
Member Presale: 1/12/16 06 AM
Public Onsale: 1/14/16 06:01 AM
Adam Ezra Group with Special Guest Gracie Day
Winners of New England Music Magazine’s “2013 Band of the Year” and “Album Of The Year”...they are a force to be reckoned with musically, personally and socially. Selling records and tickets is important to The Adam Ezra Group, but they are committed to changing the world with their songs and their actions along the way.
ALL TICKET PURCHASERS RECEIVE a free download of the full explicit version of the Adam Ezra Group's song, "The Devil Came Up to Boston"!
Adam Ezra Group
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Artist Bio
❖He takes a month out of each year to visit the living rooms of his fans around the
country…
❖ His band and nonprofit organization RallySound host a free festival every
summer that raised $151,000 for homeless veterans in 2024…
❖ He live-streamed for 500 nights in a row during the pandemic…
❖ They co-produced an album with 163 fans…
If you haven’t connected with Adam Ezra Group yet, these are just a few examples to
help you understand how this underground, Americana songwriter and his bandmates
seem to have popped out of nowhere, establishing a connection with their fans unlike
any other, and are suddenly selling out theaters throughout the Northeast.
Adam Ezra will joke with you that while the “nowhere” part might be accurate, nothing
has ever just “popped” for this folk musician, activist. Without resources, connections,
or any kind of clue how the music world works, Ezra began playing shows over 20 years
ago. When music venues wouldn’t hire him, he played bars, bookstores, fields, and
parking lots, often raising money for causes he cared about; a practice that grew into his
nonprofit organization RallySound. “We’d play 5 hours a night,” Adam reminisces, “more often than not, in danger of outnumbering the audiences we were playing for…”
So how did this band operating so far outside the traditional music world come to win
New England Music Award’s “Americana Act of the Year” in 2023? What could have
happened to inspire John Oates to call Adam and invite him to begin a songwriting
friendship that would lead to John producing their latest release and co-write, “Hold
Each Other Now”? What happened to catch the attention of The Wallflowers, who
recently invited AEG to join them on their spring tour, or SPIN Magazine who recently
proclaimed, “This Independent Underground Folk Band Is Blowing Up Without Selling
Out”?
If you ask Adam, he’ll tell you:
“One person at a time, over many years and thousands of shows, decided to turn their
heads to listen. One person at a time decided to share our music with folks they care
about. That’s always been our story. It’s no fairytale, but it sure makes me proud and
humbled when I look out from the stage to watch theaters full of people singing along to
our music.”
These days you’ll find Adam and his bandmates, Corinna Smith (Fiddle), Poche Ponce
(Bass), and Alex Martin (Percussion), constantly out on the road. If you look at their
tour schedule now, you can buy tickets to see them at festivals, rock venues, and
theaters around the country, but you will also see their tour continuously peppered with
activism and grassroots events; a testament to an artist who will never forget where he
came from, and whose mission is about much more than music.
Gracie Day
Connect with this artist:
www.graciedaymusic.com
Gracie Day is currently nominated as 2018's "Female Performer of the Year" and "Best in State - CT" by the New England Music Awards, an organization that acknowledges independent, original acts across all six states. After releasing her first EP in November of 2017 and winning "Best New Act" at NEMA, Day is quickly getting noticed for her songwriting, singing and performances. She was a semi-finalist in the international Unsigned Only Songwriting Contest, and was selected for a showcase at the prestigious Durango Songwriter's Expo, a convention for professional songwriters and industry pros. Day travels back and forth from Nashville while recording her new songs at the famous Sound Emporium where everyone from Johnny Cash to Alabama Shakes has recorded. Gracie Day's latest single, "Tennessee" is steadily climbing on Spotify, gaining thousands of plays.
Previously based in Hartford, and now in Central Massachusetts, Day was named “Best Folk Band” in CTNow’s Best of Hartford Reader’s Poll for 2017. The genre “Folk”, though a large influence on Day’s lyric writing, doesn’t quite describe the mixture of rock, soul and country in her sound. Gracie Day is now working with a new line-up and playing larger stages all over New England, with plans to tour further next year. With Joel Rines on bass, Brooks Milage on keys and Duncan Arsenault on drums, Gracie's earnest voice and heartfelt storytelling cuts through a landscape of dynamic sound and thoughtful arrangement. Gracie Day is currently releasing singles while working on her first full-length album. Meanwhile, make sure you catch a performance on a stage near you.
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