SHOWMAN & COOLE
Sun, November 15 • The Belfry • 7:00 pm
For over 25 years, John Showman and Chris Coole have shared stages across North America and Europe, from MerleFest to RockyGrass, as members of The Lonesome Ace Stringband and The Foggy Hogtown Boys. Their music lives on the borderlands of old-time, bluegrass, and folk—where the songs of John Hartford and Hank Williams meet the fiddle tunes of Eck Robertson and Ed Haley. Together they’ve released Afield and Much Further Out than Inevitable, and continue to craft music that’s both timeless and deeply personal.
Doors at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7:00 pm
TWO RUNNER
Sat, December 12 • The Belfry • 7:00 pm
Amid the excitement and ambiguity of a new start, Paige Anderson of Two Runner poses poignant questions on Porchlight, her resolute and tenderhearted new record. Beautiful string arrangements, intimate confessionals, and rollicking hymns for the lost and determined.
Porchlight offers tunes that are warm and steady, relatable nostalgia twinged with the ache of needing to move on. The result aptly links the uncertainty of letting go and the simultaneous resolve of someone faced with no other choice. A destiny perhaps sealed from an early age, as Anderson began her touring career in a six-person family bluegrass band from the age of nine. Now nearly a decade into her own music career, she’s seen stages warming up for Sierra Ferrell, Watchhouse and Molly Tuttle.
Although change often comes en masse, it is surreal and jarring to start again. Paige Anderson offers Two Runner as solace and escape for those needing to reset, with sage comfort and kindness from her own accounts, the way all great songwriters do.




