Events Calendar · October 2024
KC Turner's Cookout Concert Series Featuring Carsie Blanton and Susan Werner at HopMonk Tavern
Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Time: Doors Open at 4:30pm and Show Starts at 6:00pm
Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. Inspired by artist-activists including Nina Simone and Woody Guthrie, her catalog careens through American popular song from folk and swing to pop-punk protest anthems.
With her unique mix of humor, soul, and political wit, and fifteen-plus years on the road, Blanton has amassed a dedicated fan base and a small menagerie of viral hits (Rich People, Shit List, Fishin’ With You). Her forthcoming album After the Revolution, produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester, is slated for release in March of 2024.
Susan Werner plays and writes an almost impossibly wide range of music, but what ties it all together is her love of language, her passionate intensity, and an unshakable commitment to the stories she tells in song. Michael Feinstein calls her “that rarest of things – a composer who not only adheres to the traditions of the Great American Songbook, but also who adds great new songs to that Songbook with each project she writes. She’s one of the most exciting talents in the country.” “When it comes to crafting a song,” says the website No Depression, her “only peers are Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon.” Susan started in opera, moved to folk, explored jazz and pop, hit classical, gospel, and country rock, and is now going back to her roots with her tenth and latest album, Hayseed, which digs deep into the field of American farming.
General Admission Tickets are $30.00 per person in advance and $35.00 on day of show. All tickets have service fees and can be purchased in the above website link.
