Jack has been invited back to the Dunmore East Bluegrass Festival for the 4th time. The festival takes place in beautiful Dumore East on Ireland's east coast August 23 through 26. Check out the video below for highlights from a previous festival, featuring Jack and co. entertaining the audience with a rollicking performance of "Big Bear".
Jack and buddy Luther Wright recently got a nice tip of the hat from Canada's Exclaim Magazine for the upcoming Live At The Acoustic Grill, recorded last year on one of Jack's many sojourns north of the border. The album will be released on Radia Records in the US later this yer.
"The friendship between Grace, a New Yorker, and Wright, former Weeping Tile guitarist and mastermind behind the Wrongs, is genuine. Both share a skill at painting perfect vignettes with their songs – some humorous, some heartbreaking – but always drawn from real life. This album captures them together on Wright's home turf near Kingston, ON in front of an intimate audience, featuring a stellar guest appearance by Canadian folk legend Dan Whiteley on mandolin. It's essentially a showcase of both Grace and Wright's best material, and since many Canadians might already be acquainted with some of the latter's tunes, such as "Luther's Got the Blues" and "Guitar Pickin' Martyrs," the treat is getting familiar with Grace's deft lyricism on such offerings as "Cigarettes" and "Stayin' Out All Night." The natural interplay between the two makes one wonder what they could do if they truly put their heads together to make an album. But for now, Live At The Acoustic Grill will have to serve as a charming document of what was undoubtedly a special night."
Read it online here.
A preview of what's to come, from the soon-to-be-released Family. Join Robin "The Hammer, the lovely Miss Acacia and Jason "J-Bird" Bowman on a very dark journey.
Or at least somewhere you might want to visit. Full disclosure here, but for a sneak peak, check out the Strange Creek Music Festival or Beacon Riverfest to get some more info.
Jack is tracking songs as we update this and is also planning a live album featuring Luther Wright from their most recent Canadian tour. More info on that coming soon...