You’re invited to Joe’s Final Outdoor Performance featuring Bumper Jacksons and Federico Pe
Bumper Jacksons are hot and sweet, painting America's story from the streets of New Orleans to Appalachian hollers. Unafraid to scrap together new sounds from forgotten 78's, the Bumper Jacksons elegantly balance paying homage to the traditions while fashioning their own unique, playful style. The group began as a duo, a city-meets-country experiment between songstress Jess Eliot Myhre and banjo player Chris Ousley.
JESS ELIOT MYHRE
VOCALS. CLARINET. WASHBOARD. SONGWRITING. TROUBLE.
A native Floridian, Jess grew up singing in church and swinging from banyan trees. Her mother swears she could sing before she could talk and swim before she could walk. As a girl, she dutifully learned her scales on clarinet and euphonium and marched with gusto in competitive southern marching bands. At Wesleyan University, she set aside her instruments in favor of books, limiting her music to her voice, where she sang in funk and soul bands. After college, she moved to New Orleans to teach and build school gardens but became mesmerized by the big, uproarious glory of the street bands and second lines. She dusted off her lonely old clarinet, built herself her iconic frog washboard, and somehow convinced the local bands to let her sit in. She fell in love with American traditional music and dove right in.
CHRIS OUSLEY
VOCALS. GUITARS. BANJO. SONGWRITING. SHENANIGANS.
A Maryland boy, Chris tramped off to the hills of western Pennsylvania to study the 3 B’s: books, beer, and banjos. There he woodshedded with old hill cats in barns outside of abandoned steel and coal towns playing any instrument he could take a turn on. Hitting mountain trails, biking over rough terrain, rafting down rivers, all with a bottle of whiskey and a banjo on his back. Chris’s deep jazz pocket and graceful Kentucky-style banjo are only outmatched by the snarly-ness of his beard. He was the one bold enough to believe that he and Jess could make music for a living and is solely responsible for all the shenanigans that embody the Bumper Jacksons.
FEDERICO PEÑA AND THE EMERGENCE TRIO
Federico Peña is an Uruguayan-Argentine jazz pianist and keyboardist. Join us and experience an evening of jazz, piano, upright bass, and drums.
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