Come one, come all for an extravagant experience in the dead of winter. Join us for artistic expression of the rustic Nevada west, and the signature musical style of Melissa Carper, harkening American ramblers, crooners, and songsters of times gone by. Carper will be joined by Kassi Valazza, whose music swirls around in your head like whiskey in a snifter, vaporous and intoxicating.
Tuesday, January 24th at 6 pm
Tickets are $50. Click to purchase!
Join us at Abby's for a Private Dinner and Show with musical performances by Melissa Carper and Kassi Valazza.
Tickets are $50 and includes food and entertainment .
This event is in collaboration with Whom Presents.
About Melissa Carper
Carper's deep, old-timey music roots were firmly planted as a child, playing upright bass and singing in her family's traveling country band in rural Nebraska. Her love of country classics was cultivated as she laid beneath the console listening to her parents' record collection. Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, and more became the soundtrack of her youth.
Her newest album Ramblin' Soul features a co-write with life long ramblin' buddy and bandmate Gina Gallina, a song penned by friend and frequent collaborator Brennen Leigh; a reimagined classic from folk pioneer Odetta; and ten Carper originals. The album ventures into blues, early rock and roll, and old school soul, along with Carper's signature styles of country, western swing, and jazz.
Carper's lifelong, steadfast listening has come to fruition in the songs on Ramblin' Soul. Her childhood love of the family record collection planted the seeds of what is her own bountiful orchard today.
Not unlike Loretta Lynn, Melissa Carper is giving us scenes and stories and vignettes that kind of play out between home and the honky-tonk - NPR
Singer-bassist Melissa Carper sounds like a voice from a bygone era...Evoking the cool, smoky croon of a lounge singer, Carper gives some winking commentary about having a good time. - Rolling Stone Country
Melissa Carper is one of the greatest classic golden era country singers and composers of this generation. A new batch of songs from Melissa Carper is something to smile and rub your hands together about like waiting for permission to cut into an apple pie. - Saving Country Music
About Kassi Valazza
Kassi Valazza has a viscous, light gold voice. It swirls around in your head like whiskey in a snifter; vaporous, and intoxicating. For most of Dear Dead Days pedal steel and electric guitar lope along at half time, the in pocket rhythm section booming from deep in the low end. Its frequencies penetrate your flesh. The songs reverberate off your bones.
Musicians with Southwest origins dependably bring a languorous relaxation -- the slow pace a defense against the oppressive heat of the high desert -- and a grim sense of gravitas, having walked among the bleached bones and arid landscapes. At times Valazza sings as if her lyrics are smoke she's exhaling.