9/16/23 Small Glories Return to Thrasher Opera House
16 September 2023 News
Green Lake, Wis. – Roots powerhouse duo The Small Glories will perform at Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake, Wisconsin, on Friday, October 06, at 7:30 p.m. The Small Glories could almost make you believe in fate, with stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon. They last performed at Thrasher Opera House in August 2019.
The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies. Thrown together purely by accident for an anniversary show at Winnipeg’s venerable West End Cultural Centre, The Small Glories could almost make you believe in fate. These veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear, rooms shrink, and audiences feel as though they are right there on the stage with the band. It’s common for listeners to find themselves laughing, dancing, crying, or caught up in a good old-fashioned sing-along. Their material is welcoming in subject, folk-pop melody, and instrumentation — songs of love, loss, and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar, and harmonica. On record, Luft and Edwards take the musical synergy honed from hundreds of shows together and expand it into a new soundscape amplified by pounding drums and other textural embellishments, which only reinforce the magic of their innate chemistry —chemistry labeled the “Lennon-McCartney syndrome,” by Americana UK, writing, “Some things just work together… to witness a performance by The Small Glories is a rare opportunity to experience that indefinable quality that creates perfection.”
The Small Glories performance is sponsored by…. This event is supported in part by a grant from the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets for The Small Glories performance on Friday, October 06 at 7:30 p.m. are $25 and available at www.thrasheroperahouse.com or by calling 920.294.4279
Thrasher Opera House’s mission is to promote the arts and the power of live performance, provide a community gathering place, and preserve the historic Thrasher Opera House. A charming, intimate, friendly venue with excellent acoustics. Built-in 1910, restored in 1997, and on the National Register of Historic Places. Seats 200. For more information, please visit www.thrasheroperahouse.com
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