EARLY SHOW: Amy Rude

with Matt Mitchell + Marianne Dissard, Naim Amor

August 8, 2008

7:00 pm

Amy Rude

Oregon native and Tucson-based singer-songster Amy Rude creates songs akin to careful poems that cast unexpected shadows across the guts of life. Inspired by the Oregon woods of her childhood, her warm country sounds are a tribute to anemic logging towns, drug-addicted teens, and a splintered family tree.

Rude began playing guitar 15 years ago under the tutelage of her aunt, a falsetto singing Catholic nun, and a minister uncle who played fiddle each Sunday at the local prison. Many many solitary days and nights spent with a lone 4-track recorder later, Rude now composes music both homey and heart-wrenching.

Marianne Dissard + Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell and Marianne Dissard figured they should start playing together. A week later, they had their first show. From there it’s a his and herstory! Matt and Marianne have been playing together in just about any place they can and making more and more interesting and dynamic music!

Naim Amor

Naïm Amor: Stop in the Naïm of love.

“More than 10 years ago, Naïm Amor made what some desperate Americans might consider an insane decision by moving from his home in Paris to Tucson. But nothing Amor has done has made sense by conventional standards, and that’s what makes him an artist. While crooning gorgeous self-penned French love songs, he’s been known to play a toy drum machine into his guitar’s pickups, layering it over hot-shit jazz licks he’s fed through a loop, creating sheets of sound. His latest album is called Sanguine — a word that evokes blood — and while he still strolls through a moody landscape, he’s currently not as concerned with sonic experimentation. The title reveals that this is a more inner-directed effort that focuses on beats of the heart rather than machinery. Amor performs solo tonight for those whose hearts have been won or broken, and he can win or break a heart with his Parisian soul music. That’s what makes him a great artist.” - LA Weekly

Doors open at: 7 pm
Tickets: free