When: Sunday, November 14, 6:30 pm.
Where: The Commons Cafe Dining Room
Cost: $10 at the door
The Sapsuckers (www.sapsuckersmusic.com) write and perform original country/Americana songs that blend humor, heartache, and honky-tonk. With an eclectic style that ranges from hillbilly roots to Nashville pop, the songwriting team of Nikki Grossman and Joe Hart has developed a lively, contemporary take on country music. Their creative lyrics, catchy melodies, and clever stage show have earned them a growing fan base in the Midwest and beyond.
Active since 2013, Paisley Fields (www.thepaisleyfields.com) is a singer, songwriter, and bandleader splitting time between Brooklyn, New York and Nashville, Tennessee. Fields’ writes country music. His songs are tender and authentic, but also pretty good with a joke. They’re mindful of tradition, but deeply informed by his singular background — as a teenage Midwestern church pianist, a Manhattan piano bar survivor, and a touring member of pioneering queer country outfit, Lavender Country. The stories are his, but the feeling they convey — love, loneliness, lust, and so on — are, hopefully, still universal.
Please email programs@thecommonsviroqua.org with questions or comments.