Brewery Arts Center opens eight-show celtic series Saturday with Ryan Davidson
Irish-American singer-songwriter Ryan Davidson appears at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall in Carson City this Saturday to open the 2016-2017 season of BAC’s popular Celtic Series.
Currently on tour with Celtic fiddler, Jessie Nieves, Davidson represents the vanguard of young singer-songwriters in the New Folk movement, crafting his music with working-class energy and storytelling. The Midwest Record calls him, "The solid new voice in the nu-folk movement."
Davidson was struck by a semi truck when he was thirteen, leaving him bedridden for a year. He discovered music while he was recovering, learning guitar and songwriting. As a teenager, Davidson toured through the West Coast Punk rock scene, exploring his craft as a musician and a writer. After ten years of touring with his punk band, Hit by a Semi, he moved to Ireland and spent two years studying traditional Irish music.
Davidson explains that he grew up with Irish music. “It was always a part of me,” he says. “I felt it was time to dive into it and learn it properly, down to the roots.”
After returning from Ireland, he began his career as a solo folk artist, easily blending his Irish music tradition with his rock-n-roll and Americana roots into a tangible, new voice, and crafting original songs that celebrate both life’s victories and tragedies and the strength to endure.
Davidson’s current tour promotes his newly-released, third CD, A Wick Burning High. He is joined by Michigan fiddle player, Jessie Nieves, a formidable singer in her own right who also appears on his latest CD.
The Brewery Arts Center’s Celtic Series presents monthly concerts showcasing local, regional, and national artists, with styles from Traditional Irish and Scottish to Folk-Rock.
Davidson and Nieves appear at the Brewery Arts Center on Saturday, September 10th, 7:00 PM in the Performance Hall. The doors open at 6:30. Tickets available at the door or at breweryarts.org.
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