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Landmark LIVE: Eliza Gilkyson

By Landmark Center (other events)

Friday, October 11 2019 7:00 PM 10:00 PM CDT
 
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Americana, roots, and folk music fans can get tickets for Landmark Center’s fall concert series!

Cocktail reception: 7 pm // Doors: 7:30 pm // Concert: 8 pm.

All Landmark Live concerts are presented by Landmark Center and Minnesota Music Coalition with sponsorship support from KFAI Radio and the Pioneer Press. Again this year, Minnesota Music Coalition artists will be opening acts, and each performance is hosted by personalities from KFAI Radio and/or Minnesota Music Coalition.

Eliza Gilkyson is a twice Grammy-nominated (2006/2015) singer songwriter and activist who is one of the most respected musicians in folk, roots and Americana circles. Her songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Tom Rush and Rosanne Cash and have appeared in films, PBS specials and on prime-time TV. A member of the Austin Music Hall of Fame, and a recent inductee into the Austin Songwriter Hall of Fame, she has won countless Folk Alliance and Austin Music awards, including 2014’s Songwriter of the Year. Gilkyson’s music has always offered a vivid reflection of the times we live in, full of joys and sorrows, each song a window into a life of struggle and triumph in a world she feels is “poised on the edge of moral, economic and environmental bankruptcy.”

Gilkyson’s 2018 release is “SECULARIA,” a collection of spiritually charged songs that do not fit within the parameters of traditional religious beliefs but challenge us to respect all life and be accountable for our actions in such perilous times.

On stage, Gilkyson presents a vibrant spontaneous mix of storytelling with self-effacing humor and tenderness, within a wide-ranging spectrum of human experience, from intimate love songs to political diatribe, accompanied by some of the best support players in the world.

Cocktail hour begins at 7pm, the auditorium will open at 7:30pm and the concert will begin at 8:00pm.