Americana the Beautiful
Challenge what it means to play Americana music and achieve the “American dream." Artists in Residence Napat Snidvongs and Valarie Walker join songwriters Garrett Owen and Laura Zarougian to share experiences and songs about America in the first-ever collaborative showcase between Keepsake House and Twangville. Peek behind the industrial curtains with us as we unearth the music of this land, its past and present, played by the people who are here.
Doors: 6:00pm ET
Tickets:
In-person (advanced or at door): $20
Online video (live & recorded): $10
Napat Snidvongs, Laura Zarougian, Valarie Walker, and Garrett Owen.
Garrett Owen
Fort Worth singer/songwriter Garrett Owen draws inspiration from a multitude of sources, not the least of which is a childhood spent in Africa and South America with his missionary parents. “Quiet Lives,” his most recent release, looks at the push-pull of relationships, love, and loss with musical arrangements bristling/filled with complex chord changes and melodic dissonance. “With a sound akin to the more melancholy side of Jesse Malin, Owen brims with a mixture of mourning and understanding," said American Songwriter.
Owen has been nominated for numerous Dallas Music Awards and won the 2018 Troubadour Contest at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
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Laura Zarougian
Laura Zarougian is based in the Hudson Valley (by way of Boston, Chicago, Yerevan and Brooklyn). She has been an open mic host, poet for hire, barista and an elementary school art teacher. Describes her music as Armenian Cowgirl, although listeners tend to call it Americana, folk pop, and alt country. Mostly she spends her time stacking cords of wood, turning the compost pile, and chasing the groundhog that loves to snack on her sunflowers and hollyhocks.
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Napat Snidvongs
Napat Snidvongs is a Thai singer/songwriter who currently resides in New York City. Napat mixes Thai storytelling traditions of magical realism and Buddhist folktales with the independent music sound that he discovered while studying at an American high school in the late ‘90s. He released music through a Bangkok independent label, So::on DryFlower Records, and his compositions have been featured in many television commercials and Thai blockbuster films.
Napat has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows Linguistics, Foresight, and Sounds of the Invisible and is a 2023 Artist in Residence.
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Valarie Walker
Valarie Walker, a native of New York, is an activist, educator, artist, and a three-time winner of the Moth Story Slam. Her story about meeting hero Ruby Bridges aired on the Moth Radio Hour, and the first film she appeared in, “Watermelon Woman,” was inducted into the Library of Congress archives. She uses storytelling to heal, challenge, inspire, and connect.
Read her story on The Moth.
Valarie has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows A Keepsake Christmas, Foresight, and Sounds of the Invisible and is a 2023 Artist in Residence.
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Twangville
Founded in 2005, Twangville is a music review website covering all corners of Americana, including folk, country, bluegrass, rock, and blues.