12PM // FREE // 21+
Chicago HonkyTonk Presents: A Sunday Matinee
Featuring The Lawrence Peters Outfit & Naomi Ashley Band
Plus a Dance Lesson by Caitlin Rafferty & J.B. Duckett
Doors open at noon – Dance lessons at 1:30pm – Bands start at 2pm
The Lawrence Peters Outfit play un-ruined country music, a term
Lawrence coined to describe the band’s original, deep-rooted,
honky tonk sound. They are 2019 and 2018 Ameripolitan Award
nominees, in the Best Honky Tonk Group category, and two time
winners of the “Best Country And Western Entertainer” (Chicago
Music Awards). Best known for his lead vocal on “The Old Black Hen”, for the watershed Songs: Ohia- Magnolia Electric Company
album, Peters leads the “Outfit” through his own finely crafted
originals, and cherry-picked classics. The band is a super-group of
Chi-Town pickers, including Matt Gandurski on lead guitar, Dave
Sisson on rhythm guitar and harmonies, and Josh Piet on upright
bass.
Naomi Ashley Band
With her cream-and-Kahlua voice, Chicago’s Naomi Ashley is a dazzling performer who brings her songs to startling, vibrant life. When she’s singing, she disappears into the song. Her pitch-perfect voice has the ability to convey pitch perfect emotional life. The music she makes is intimate, plainspoken and gorgeously sung – drawing on the American folk, blues and country traditions – which surge with all the contradictory impulses of real, imperfect life. Naomi’s band is made up of Chicago music scene veterans: Andon Davis (guitar), Cathie Van Wert (violin), Michael Krayniak (bass) and Paul Bivans (drums).