Coyote Grace – Double Header

When: Friday, September 4th, 2009 @ 8.00 PM - September 5th, 2009, 8pm

Events begin promptly at the posted time - doors open half an hour beforehand, so come early to have your choice of seats.

Where:

Tickets: $10.00 advance, $12.00 at the door

Click here to purchase advance tickets for either date.

Coyote Grace was the first group to grace the Empty Sea stage when we opened this May.  Now they’re back for two consecutive nights: Friday, September 4th and Saturday, September 5th.  Both are at 8.00 PM.

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Girl meets Girl. Girl becomes Boy.

Girl and Boy become a band.

Meet COYOTE GRACE.

If you want a lesson in organic chemistry, take notes as you watch the sparks fly between the acoustic downhome duo, COYOTE GRACE.  This folktastic phenomenon is the result of combining one guitarist Joe Stevens, a transman from Northern California, with one upright bassist Ingrid Elizabeth, a sassy femme originally hailing from the hills of Southeastern Ohio.  Together, they capture the eyes and the hearts of live audiences nationwide with their bluesy folkgrass sound, sweet harmonies, poignant songwriting, and mid-song dance moves.

Coyote Grace has shared the stage with such folk icons as Indigo Girls, Melissa Ferrick, Cris Williamson, and Lowen & Navarro. They can also be found wooing the crowds at colleges, festivals, conferences, coffeehouses, pubs, house concerts, farmers markets, and community centers alike.  Although they spend most of the year on the road, the duo now resides in Sonoma County, California.

Spring 2009 brings the release of Ear to the Ground, the duo’s long-awaited sophomore studio album.  In this latest evolution of their unique Americana/roots sound, Coyote Grace displays a striking musical maturation from their debut effort, filling out the duo’s sound with guest musicians on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, keys, and drums.  Ingrid Elizabeth shows a stronger songwriting & vocal presence, while Joe Stevens continues to wear his heart on his sleeve with his emotionally charged, raw lyrics.  The album’s mood ebbs and flows, winding from a sparse banjo/vocal duet, through a slow bluegrass ballad, to blues-driven full band sound to swinging country fiddle tune to pensive piano-kissed lullabye — a soundscape as tangible as the duo’s newfound home in the rolling hills of Sonoma County.

The two met while living in Seattle, and have been performing as a duo since December 2004, sharing the stage with bluegrass, old-time, folk rock, jazz, and cabarets alike.  Coyote Grace spent the entire year of 2007 touring the country in their 1978 Chevy RV (Harvey), promoting their debut studio album, Boxes & Bags.  Aptly titled, the album pays homage to the trademarks of their nomadic troubadour lifestyle, featuring 12 original tracks of acoustic alt-folk sounds, weaving fabrics of upbeat folkgrass, front-porch blues, lovesick serenades, broody funk, and freight train folk rock into a curious tapestry conveying themes of transformation, introspection, and the impermanence of identity.