tuck's music journal

I write about local music stuff in West Virginia and nearby Ohio. I post lots of information about the Greens and musical benefit events I organize for my non profit organization. Americana music focused.

Friday, December 26, 2008

Hank Williams tribute show in Charleston tomorrow- sold out

Friends,
I would love to invite you to a special Woody Hawley Concert on Dec 27th, but I can't because it's all ready sold out! John Lilly will lead a talented band of musicians in a special tribute to the life and music of Hank Williams. For those lucky enough to have a ticket I will let John tell you about the show in his own words. For the rest of you, take solace in that there is still time to buy tickets to Grammy award winner Tim O'Brien's performance with opening act Todd Burge on January 10th.
Thanks supporting live music and making the series a success.
Happy holidays,
Ron Sowell

"Featured performers for this special night of classic country music will be singers John Lilly from Charleston(www.johnlillymusic.com) and Rob McNurlin from Ashland, Kentucky (www.robmcnurlin.com), accompanied by fiddler Buddy Griffin, lead guitarist Ritchie Collins, resonator guitarist Donnie Scott, and bass player Rebekah Long. The group will perform many of Hank Williams' most popular songs, such as "Jambalaya," "Lovesick Blues,"
and "Your Cheating Heart," as well as lesser-known gems from the deep Hank Williams repertoire.
Hank Williams is widely recognized as the greatest country music songwriter and singer of all time, and his music continues to be recorded and performed, more that 50 years after his death in Oak Hill, West Virginia. At the time of Williams' death, he was enroute to a special New Years Eve show at Charleston's Municipal Auditorium on December 31, 1952, followed by two scheduled shows in Canton, Ohio, on New Years Day. He was pronounced dead in Oak Hill, the morning of January 1, 1953.
Lilly, McNurlin, and Griffin, avid Hank Williams fans, presented their first Williams tribute concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Williams' death, starting new a tradition, which has grown in popularity through the years. They are pleased to share this night of traditional honky-tonk music with the Woody Hawley audience.
As a special feature, and in keeping with the Woody Hawley Concert Series' emphasis on contemporary songwriting, Lilly and McNurlin, both experienced and widely reknowned songwriters in their own rights, will each perform short sets of original music, revealing their own personal styles as well as Williams' musical influence."

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