WHEN: Thursday December 1, 2016
DOORS: 7pm | SHOW: 8pm
GENRE: indie folk / rock / singer/songwriter
AGES: all ages
SEATING: seated general admission
TICKETS: FREE SHOW!
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David Dondero:

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David Dondero has been touring and releasing music since 1999 (via self-releases and independent labels like Ghostmeat, Future Farmer and Team Love).

His new 6-song EP “With Love” will be released this Friday, November 4th on Total Treble Records, a label co-run by Laura Jane Grace and her Against Me! bandmates.

Dondero’s history with Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace dates back to the start of both of their musical careers, when the two played together inside a laundromat in Gainesville, Florida in the late 90s. They’ve been friends and occasional tourmates since, so when the invitation was extended to visit Grace’s studio in 2012, Dondero didn’t hesitate to say yes.

“It was a happy accident,” the singer/songwriter admits. “I just came in, checked out the studio and she was like, ‘You wanna play a couple songs?’ So I played these songs, then had to go on to Orlando, and that was that. We ended up recording all six songs in just about an hour. I think we did them all in one take and then they were shelved when the studio closed after being crushed by a falling tree.”

The session sat untouched until Grace unearthed it in early 2016 as she was preparing for a slate of solo shows with Dondero. The idea was pitched to release it on Grace’s label, Total Treble, as a sonic snapshot of a traveling musician doing what he does best in the most intimate possible setting. “I’m really thankful she’s putting this out.” Dondero says. “I like the songs better with no revision to the lyrics…It’s more truthful to the original idea. I like what we did to them on This Guitar, too, but the original versions I think are a little more to the heart.”

Press:
“This is the sound of a man on fire. Smart, funny and honestly out of his mind; but he comes back long enough to sing about it. One of the best singer/songwriters I’ve ever heard.”- Bob Boilen, NPR

“Dondero is this generation’s Townes Van Zandt, a peripatetic tumbleweed casting across the country’s highways and dirt roads searching for truth and love. His reedy tenor shuffles through clever verbal forays, over raga-muffin folk, brightened by Dondero’s road-wizened stoicism”- Houston Chronicle

“He has a terrific ear and eye for simple detail, for spinning songs out of the mundane just as deftly as standards like love and loss.”- David Bevan, Pitchfork

minorcan:

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MINORCAN (mi-nawr-kuhn) is a band founded by and centered around the songs of Ryan Anderson (originally from Jacksonville, FL). The group is a three piece and all current members are now located in the Western North Carolina area. Their latest album is called Dead Man and was released in January of 2016. The twelve songs are about grieving, but the group are having fun with the pain, turning loss into catchy, fun rock songs.

recent press:

“Minorcan is the labor of love of Jacksonville native Ryan Anderson who, like all of those who grew up in the swamp coast that stretches from the panhandle to the Atlantic, has a permanent buzz of Tom Petty in the ears. Now located in Asheville, NC, Anderson fills out this band with his brother on drums and the anchor that is all things bass, Joe Terry, formerly of the Poison Control Center. True American working-class rock and roll with crunchy guitars, strained vocal chords, dancing bass lines, and cymbal crashing drums, Minorcan channels the ghosts of Springsteen (sure he’s not dead, but it’s been ages since he was working class) and Westerburg (let’s be honest hasn’t written a song this good in a decade). This is arena rock performed in the basements of America, pure and simple. Self-released, DIY till they die, Minorcan are winning over fans one house show and art space at a time.”
- God Is In The TV

“the second band, Asheville’s delightful Minorcan, lift[s] me out of my default state of crippling anxiety. (What is a Minorcan, Jesse Stinnard asked before the set. I googled and concluded that a Minorcan is a resident of the Greek island, Minorca.) Frontman Ryan is this gangling, towering guy with Tom Petty hair, and he jumps, swings, shimmies, and revels in our delight. We adore him, and he adores us. In his finest moment – which even surpasses the donning of the bear mask – Ryan leaps off the stage during what should be his solo in “Better Half-less” and turns the guitar to us. Gleefully, we claw and stroke the strings, until I invent the perfect ending for our collective session. That, ladies and gents, is the instant that the magic hit me, the moment that I understand Ryan’s visible giddiness when he hails to us later, ‘Happy Popfest, everyone!'”
- Collapse Board review of Minorcan’s live set at Athens Popfest