Honky Tonk Angels Showcase Day 2
Day 2 of Honk Tonk Angels is filled with some of the loveliest songbirds around. Sarah Gwendolyn, Julia Sanders and Liliana Hudgens are liable to break your heart and mend it back up again in the same song. Each of these local artists are dynamite songwriters, and know how to deliver their lyrics with passion and precision. It’s a pairing that doesn’t happen often, so if you know what’s good for you, you’ll get your tickets in advance.
$20 adv tick/ 25 day of
4 Day Event Pass for Oct 10th – 13th $60
Sarah Gwendolyn
Sarah pulls from the heart and the past to bring you to the future of country, folk and trad music. Her original content is inspired from years of street fiddling, harmony singing, and the search for enlightenment.
Julia Sanders
Americana artist Julia Sanders’ unfolds a meticulously arranged musical landscape anchored by transfixing vocals and a compact but thoughtful narrative style that calls to mind forebearers like Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris. On her most recent album, Morning Star, Sanders explores the complexities of transitions: from woman to mother, partners to parents, and freewheelin’ musician to an adult with roots and responsibilities. The album is a poetic, often dark, yet silver-lined portrait of transformation and growth. With each track, Sanders explores a different facet—a career, a partner, a child—and the range of emotions they carry with them, from joy and pleasure to struggle, loneliness and self-doubt. Unafraid to address the complexities that walk hand in hand with the bliss of having children—such as the loss of autonomy and the fracturing of identity—Morning Star provides a much-needed soundtrack to the experience of matrescence—the physical, emotional and social transition to motherhood
Liliana Hudgens
Bandcamp review:: The Appalachian region is spilling over with terrific up-and-coming musicians these days, many clustered around the beautiful artists’ haven of Asheville, North Carolina. That includes Liliana Hudgens, a singer-songwriter whose new seven-song EP Last Line explores the blurry boundaries between country, folk and a retro brand of pop rock descended from The Everly Brothers whose “So Sad” is covered here. Meanwhile, Hudgens’s originals demonstrate both her knack for writing memorable melodies and her considerable vocal capabilities. Few can flutter around a prolonged note like her.