Doors open at 7 - Music at 7:30 - $25 advance tickets - $30 at the door
This will be a fully seated listening room style show.
Two heartwarming artists and Kerrville Folk Festival veterans come together for a special evening of songs and story-telling.
David Wilcox is a penetrating storyteller - a revered folk musician with an effortless talent for spinning lyrics that quietly cut deep, and crafting melodies that seamlessly ride the plot twists and turns. Kyle Joe has carved his place as one of West Michigan’s most dependable songsmiths of the poetic, soul-bearing sort. Catch them both at The Alluvion.
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About the artists:
DAVID WILCOX
Wilcox handily exemplifies the power of lyrical and musical catharsis. Pick any song from Wilcox’s new acoustic album, My Good Friends, and you will find yourself instantly immersed. Sometimes you’ll see yourself in the lyrics, other times you’ll marvel at the four-minute mini-movie.
“I am grateful for the community that sustains me – my good friends.” Such dedication to honoring personal and heartfelt music has been the backbone of David Wilcox’s entire career. The Ohio native with the warm baritone found his artistic muse in North Carolina during the mid-1980s. In 1987, he released his debut album, The Nightshift Watchman, which led to winning the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in 1988. That translated to a four-album stint with A&M Records starting with 1989’s How Did You Find Me Here, which sold 100,000 copies by word of mouth. Thirty-plus years and twenty-plus albums later, Wilcox won top honors in the 23rd annual USA Songwriting Competition in 2018 for his effervescent “We Make the Way by Walking” from his last album release, The View From the Edge. Wilcox has deservedly earned praise over the years in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone, to name a few. He also has a dedicated and vocal core of fans who regularly write to thank him for his work and the impact his songs have had on their lives.
Today, Wilcox is still earning his admirers with storytelling that cuts deep into the soul and observes the human condition from both the nerve center and the outside looking in. That kind of storytelling is certain to become a good friend.
Learn more on his website
Kyle Joe performing at The Alluvion alongside other Kerrville Folk artists in August 2023.
KYLE JOE
2021/22 saw Kyle Joe’s foray back into the solo-songwriter world, with a pile of new songs, and an updated list of accolades - including being named a winner in Kerrville Folk Festival’s prestigious NewFolk Songwriting Competition in 2022 (also a finalist in 2021), and a runner-up badge from Great River Folk’s 2021 Songwriter Contest.
Kyle named his moniker Chain of Lakes, after the swimming holes surrounding the family cabin in northern Michigan. Now 12 years, seven records, and countless collaborations in, his Chain of Lakes have aged well; supplying the Midwest with earnest, atmospheric, and soulful songs that can evoke both tears and laughter from verse to chorus.
Learn more on his website