OUTlaw Pride

🌈 OUTlaw Pride Artist Spotlight
💥Melissa Carper & Bonnie Montgomery

Celebrated for her profoundly observational lyrics, her “homespun sensibility,” and a voice that curls like a croon from a gramophone, Melissa Carper plays old school country music that resonates across time and place. Carper’s repertoire weaves together the threads of old-time, bluegrass, western swing, jazz, and blues that all intertwined to form American country music, back in the days before the recording industry drew artificial lines and slapped on race-based genre labels. Veteran Nashville musician Chris Scruggs highlighted Carper’s versatile traditionalism when he dubbed her “HillBillie Holiday,” declaring, “She’s as good as it gets.

Bonnie Montgomery has always had a big voice. Raised on southern gospel, Texas swing, Delta blues, and Ozark bluegrass, she trained as an opera singer before launching her award-winning career in outlaw country. Paste Magazine praises her timeless songwriting. Dale Watson calls her “a sophisticated badass who was born to sing.” Even so, she’s never sung quite as compellingly as she does on the eclectic, electrifying River.

📍Dainty Dillo
📆 Sunday, March 15
⏰ 2 PM - 7 PM
🎫 FREE & open to the public

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