THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT
Doors & bar open at 7 - Music at 7:30 - $25 advance tickets - $30 at the door
Seated listening room style show, but dancing/standing is most certainly allowed!
All ages - General admission
The Claudettes return to The Alluvion stage, this time with Stolen Silver. Two outstanding bands with roots in Chicago will kick off our winter music lineup.
THE CLAUDETTES
The Claudettes - “Chicago’s original recipe band…The Claudettes’ sonic playing field is the blues and everything after, all tastefully and artfully blended together….perhaps the band’s greatest super power: songwriting.”—NPR Music
Six albums into their lauded career, the Claudettes (of Chicago) continue to put a fascinating new spin on American roots music. Blues and R&B are laced with punk spirit and film-noir moods to create the band’s singular “garage cabaret” sound.
The Claudettes have earned worldwide acclaim with their recordings and concerts that are equal parts heart, musicianship and theatrical flair. Force-of-nature vocalist Rachel Williams (who dominates the stage like a glam-rock rebirth of Annie Lennox and renowned pianist/songwriter Johnny Iguana join the positively heroic rhythm section of Zach Verdoorn (bass, guitar, vocals) and Michael Caskey (drums).
Outside the Claudettes, Iguana has toured with Junior Wells and Otis Rush, played on many Grammy-nominated albums and recorded with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Derek Trucks, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Johnny Winter and more. Johnny is also composer of the score for the Emmy-winning smash FX/Hulu series “The Bear.”
“A skewed cabaret band of blues, jazz and rockabilly…a sensibility that feels equal parts James Dean and David Lynch.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
STOLEN SILVER
Stolen Silver is an indie-folk band hailing from Chicago and Traverse City. The band is the musical culmination of a two decade-long friendship between songwriters Levi Britton and Dan Myers. It’s a union that dates back to their days as roommates in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, one that entails a history as previous touring bandmates, collaborators and, most importantly, singers. Their voices are instruments, seemingly effortless and vital to their mutual craft. On their self-titled album co-produced with John Ovnik, their styles swerve along a spectrum that spans from Indie-Folk to Americana, from Pop-Rock to more explorative soundtrack moments where the spaces in the songs are equally important to their narrative, undoubtedly due to Myers work as a film composer.
Their sound and catalog has steadily evolved, as has their lineup. Since their initial vision of a folk duo, they have expanded to a rotating five-piece assembly, a collection of seasoned multi-instrumentalists including guitarist/vocalist Chris Sterr and Dean Anschutz. This latest chapter takes them into unfamiliar territory both in the studio and on the stage, where ideas are fresh and nothing is left unexplored. Dan resides in Tiffin, OH while Levi hails from Traverse City, Michigan- a circumstance that forces them out on the road while leaving plenty of room for both immediacy and intimacy to take shape.
You might be familiar with TC based members of the band: Levi Britton and Chris Sterr who are staples on the Northern Michigan music scene. Chicago's own Dan Myers rounds out the bands songwriting and sound on vocals, fiddle, and mandolin.
Stolen Silver earned the seal of approval from WXRT and WLUW Radio, Windy City Live, WGN-TV, American Way, The Chicago Tribune, and New York Times as they released their follow-up, the anticipated full-length We Have Everything / We Have Nothing. The album is a dense new offering of twelve songs- singles like the uplifting endurance rocker “Prefontaine”, the dramatic “Awake And Alive”, and the vulnerable harmony-laden ‘I Stay Lonely’ flirt with radio potential while the arrangements here are rich and the songs carry an artistic depth that is uncompromising. We Have Everything / We Have Nothing represents a group that stands to build the perfect acoustic facade while expertly demolishing it, rising in its place a structure of challenging hooks, golden-layered harmonies, and a latticework of electric guitar atmospheres and percussive textures. For the last 8 years Stolen Silver has been the official opening act of Gary Sinise & The Lt Dan Band and recently debuted their single “Harder Than it Had to Be” at the Grand Ol’ Opry in Nashville, TN.
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