House Concert Schedule
Reservations and
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301-309-0983 or scott@mooremusic.org
Jenn Grinels is an award-winning, professional actress with a tremendous set of pipes (or “truly phenomenal,” according to San Diego CityBeat). Her music is soulful, bluesy, jazzy, singer-songwriter folk rock, and she has been touring the country since 2007. Not to be missed!
Saturday, April 7 @ 8 pm
Rebecca Loebe and Jenn Grinels
“I just like to find as many ways of connecting with people musically as I can.”
– Caleb Hawley
"These guys represent what I love about music...great playing, thoughtful lyrics, and musicians who actually enjoy playing together!"
– Jay Moberg, WUMB
Pesky J. Nixon was formed in 2005 by guitarist Ethan Scott Baird, keyboardist Jacob Bush and percussionist Dan Carp. The group is bombastic but brilliant, exuding a genuine musical authenticity and mirth on stages up and down the East Coast. PJN draws influences from contemporary urban balladeers, rowdy southern bluegrass, and the sardonic yet wry wit of New England's localized folk scenes to create inviting atmosphere for audiences. Compelling harmonies and narratives rein in disparate instrumentation including zydeco style accordion, virtuosic mandolin, a variety of tribal percussion and a myriad of string instrumentation.
Saturday, Feb 18 @ 8 pm
Pesky J. Nixon and Caleb Hawley
“I love listening to you sing, in a genuine way.”
–Adam Levine (of Maroon 5)
on NBC’s “The Voice”
From his ability to write intricate lyrics with cutting-edge chords to his lightening fast licks and ear for taste and style, there is absolutely nothing average about this shaggy-haired, blue-eyed, multi-faceted musician. Caleb Hawley has received honors in the New York Songwriters Circle Contest (2008 and 2009), the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (2009), the Telluride Festival (2010), the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (2010), and Rocky Mountain Folks Fest (2011) for his songwriting. He also has a voice that placed him in the final fifty on the 2011 “American Idol” TV program.
“Judge Jennifer Lopez called Hawley ‘cute.’ When Jennifer Lopez calls you ‘cute,’ that’s almost as good as winning ‘American Idol.’ For some of us, it would be better than winning.”
– Song Circle
“Her voice is just absurd. Two artists kept coming to mind – Martin Sexton and Fiona Apple. Sexton because of her vocal focus and control; Fiona Apple because of her tell-off confessional and conversational lyrics, her penchant for complex rhyme schemes, and her powerful, listen-up-buster delivery.”
– CrazyTalk.com
“Her voice instantly took my breath away. … I could tell right from the start: Rebecca Loebe was born for this.”
–Jeanna Goodrich, Hill Country Explorer
Rebecca Loebe has been on the road as a full-time touring indie folk singer-songwriter for four years, but she had her biggest professional moment in early 2011 after she was invited to audition for a TV show called "The Voice." She went on a whim and was asked to audition again in Los Angeles and found herself face-to-face with Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine, talking about songwriting in front of 12 million people. She then she has returned to the road, playing for an ever-increasing fan base and playing songs from her third CD. She likens the recording of that album to falling in love -- “everyone around you is doing it all the time (especially when you're a full-time musician and so are a lot of your friends), but when it happens to you it feels like the largest, most singular and important occurrence of all time and space.”
