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SUMMARY:Acoustic Alchemy
DESCRIPTION:The first time Acoustic Alchemy came to the United States\, the British group arrived courtesy of Richard Branson. It was the mid 1980s\, and they answered an ad in a London paper for in-flight entertainment on Virgin Atlantic. They went to an audition and won first prize\, a return flight to London. “We got the gig\,” member Greg Carmichael said. “Three of us trouped up and down the aisles\, playing. We couldn’t hear each other\, but the audience loved it.” \nThe band’s first stop was Nashville\, where people were interested in their work\, but when their manager\, Stewart Coxhead\, got a call about a three-record deal\, he said\, “Yeah\, okay\, who is this really?” In spite of that\, he remained their manager until his death in 2015\, and his son now manages the group. It’s part of the family feeling that Acoustic Alchemy has always had. It’s about the music\, not the drama. \nThat record deal\, surprising as it was\, changed their lives. “One of the things about having a record deal is that it’s like doing exams\,” Carmichael said. “You have to come up with the goods. You have to write\, record\, and meet deadlines. That kind of pressure is really good. Now\, like so many who don’t have a big label\, you make your own agenda.” \nCarmichael and fellow Alchemist Nick Webb were friends and writing partners from the beginning. “We saw eye-to-eye on music\,” Carmichael said. “We were very different people but the slight differences in personality worked to our own advantage. He was larger-than-life. He made the most out of life and really lived it. In 1996\, our biggest year on the road\, we toured most of Europe\, the Far East\, South America\, and the United States. We finished just before Christmas and Nick said he didn’t feel great. He went to the doctor and was eventually diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Nick and I had finished writing (the album) Positive Thinking and were about to record it. I couldn’t do it on my own. The record label told me to take my time and there was lots of support from the fans. It made me feel like we should try to keep it. Miles Gilderdale was playing electric guitar in the band. He stepped into Nick’s shoes; he picked up an acoustic guitar and learned all the tunes. He’s a great guy\, as well.” \nCarmichael began his musical career on the ukulele when he was 8 or 9. Then his father took him to see the Beatles live. He was 10 and his career path was set. “That did it for me\,” he said. “My parents got me a guitar and lessons\, and I carried on. I always knew what I wanted to do. I was lucky to be able to do it. I went to a college of music with a four-year grant and studied classical guitar\, but I never wanted to be a solo performer. It was more fun being in a band\, part of a team. We all carry each other.” \nCarmichael said that both fans and first-timers can expect a lively show. “It is quite a dynamic live show\,” he said. “We do mix it up. Each (of the guys) is a talented musician. On CDs\, the music is more controlled\, and we don’t let it rip. On stage\, there is audience interaction\, and we feed off each other. It’s nice if they know the CD\, but when they hear it live\, it’s different.” \nFor Carmichael and the band\, it’s about having fun\, being on the road\, and loving what they’re doing. “We come out (after the show) and sign things and talk\,” he said. “So many have been fans from the beginning. The fans grow up with you. Now they’re retired and have the time to come to see you. As an instrumental band\, we’re slightly faceless. Most bands have lead singers\, but we have no vocals\, just instrumentals. Some (fans) didn’t even realize we’re a UK band\, but they’ve enjoyed the music over the years.” \nThe band releases new albums infrequently. Their previous studio album was Roseland\, released in 2011\, and they released a live double album\, Live in London\, in 2014. A few years ago\, they released 33 1/3\, an album that again defies easy description\, touching on jazz\, blues\, and Caribbean. The band has long had a history of incorporating the sounds of the islands into their songs. The album exemplifies what Acoustic Alchemy is all about and why the name is so apt. “It suits us\,” Carmichael said. “It’s a good name. It’s not about a person; it’s about a band. Acoustic Alchemy means a blend\, a combination of lots of different styles. Alchemy suits us. It implies a magic blend.” \nThis “G Force” of Greg Carmichael\, Gilderdale\, Grainger\, Grainger\, (and White) has been defying gravity for years. Come along for the ride.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/acoustic-alchemy-2/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joanne Shaw Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Experience the magic of Joanne Shaw Taylor and her incredible band as they deliver a powerhouse performance featuring tracks from her latest album\, Heavy Soul\, and upcoming release\, Black & Gold. Renowned for her exceptional guitar work and soulful songwriting\, Joanne’s vocals soar as she blends blues\, rock\, soul\, and pop. \nThe show also features handpicked favorites from her earlier albums and heartfelt tributes to classic blues. As one of today’s most electrifying live acts\, Joanne Shaw Taylor guarantees an unforgettable night of music.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/joanne-shaw-taylor/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Coco Montoya
DESCRIPTION:When your teacher and mentor is iconic blues guitarist Albert Collins\, you listen. That’s what guitar virtuoso and soul-deep singer Coco Montoya did when Collins told him to “Just play what you feel\, be real about it and enjoy yourself.” \nIn a career spanning more than five decades\, Montoya has followed that advice. Self-taught and left-handed\, he learned from Collins and John Mayall while putting his own stamp on every song. \nHenry “Coco” Montoya was born in Santa Monica\, California into a working-class family. Growing up\, he listened to his parents’ collection of big band\, jazz\, salsa\, doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll. His first love was the drums\, and he got his first set at 11. He got a guitar two years later. “I’m sure the Beatles had something to do with this\,” he said. “I wanted to make notes as well as beats.” \nGuitar\, though\, remained Montoya’s secondary instrument\, turning his love for drumming into a profession and playing in area rock bands while in his teens. He was becoming an in-demand drummer and then\, in 1969\, he saw Albert King open a Creedence Clearwater Revival/Iron Butterfly concert. He was transformed. “After King got done playing\, my life was changed\,” Montoya said. “When he played\, the music went right into my soul. It grabbed me so emotionally that I had tears welling up in my eyes. Nothing had ever affected me to this level. He showed me what music and playing the blues were all about. I knew that was what I wanted to do.” \nIn the mid-1970s\, Montoya had a chance meeting with Albert Collins. “Albert was coming through Los Angeles and needed to borrow my drum set\, which I left at the club where he was going to be playing\,” he said. “I went down to see his show that night and it just tore my head off. The thing that I had seen and felt with Albert King came pouring back on me when I saw Albert Collins.” \nCollins hired Montoya as his drummer and mentored him on the guitar. “We’d sit in hotel rooms for hours and play guitar\,” Montoya said. “He’d play that beautiful rhythm of his and just have me play along. He was like a father to me. Collins called Montoya “his son” and Montoya learned everything he could from the man known as the “Master of the Telecaster.” \nNeeding a more regular paycheck\, Montoya took a job tending bar and jamming on weekends. Legendary British musician John Mayall heard him playing Otis Rush’s All Your Love (I Miss Loving). Soon after\, Mayall asked Montoya to join the famous Bluesbreakers\, filling the shoes of previous Bluesbreakers guitarists like Eric Clapton\, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. For the next 10 years\, Montoya toured the world and recorded with Mayall on seven albums. \nMontoya’s debut as a bandleader came in 1995 with Gotta Mind to Travel. The album became an instant fan favorite and made it clear that Montoya ranked among the best players on the contemporary scene. Two more albums quickly followed. \nIn 2000\, Montoya’s album\, Suspicion\, exploded onto the scene and his fan base grew exponentially. After two more highly successful albums: 2002’s Can’t Look Back and 2007’s Dirty Deal on Alligator\, Montoya signed with Ruf Records\, cutting several albums. He returned to Alligator in 2017 with Hard Truth and 2019 with Coming in Hot. The UK’s Blues Matters commented that “Montoya unleashes one career-topping performance after another.” \nHis latest album\, Writing on the Wall\, features 13 tracks filled with Montoya’s fierce guitar and passion-laden vocals. It is also the first to feature his long-time road band. Despite his busy recording schedule\, Montoya remains a “road warrior\,” touring virtually non-stop around the world. He has a reputation for his live performances\, with Billboard saying “In a world of blues guitar pretenders\, Coco Montoya is the real McCoy. He exudes power and authority. Be prepared to get scorched by the real thing.” Come play with fire.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/an-evening-with-coco-montoya/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:B2Wins: Music Reimagined
DESCRIPTION:It’s a long way from the mean streets of the Brazilian favelas to the tree-lined campus of an Iowa university\, yet that’s the extraordinary journey musical twins Walter and Wagner Caldas made. The thirty-something-year-olds got their first instruments\, violins\, from their father\, who had a small woodshop and made instruments for a local orchestra designed to keep kids off the streets. The boys took lessons\, joined the orchestra at 12\, and began traveling outside the favela. They also memorized pop songs by Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson. \nThe orchestra played for celebrities and dignitaries and the twins\, with their high-energy takes on classical music\, stood out. After a performance in Rio de Janeiro in 2006\, an NPR producer did a story on them\, and they began to imagine life outside the favela. “Art\, in general\, it takes you somewhere\, somehow\,” Walter said. “It gives everyone a vision of the world they didn’t have\, including me.” \nIn the summer of 2006\, the president of the World Food Prize\, Ambassador Kenneth Quinn\, was planning an event to celebrate people who had made a difference in the availability of food in the world. He heard the NPR segment on the Caldas twins and invited them to Iowa to perform. They were given visas\, travel and a three-day stay at a Des Moines hotel. They weren’t nervous\, even though they decided on their program 10 minutes before they performed\, Walter on the violin and Wagner on the ukulele. “They dazzled\,” Quinn said. “They had the energy of youth; they just had this verve to them. You could see it and feel it in the room.” \nTheir unique style led Benjamin Allen\, then president of the University of Northern Iowa\, to approach them through a translator and offer them full scholarships to study music at the university. “We thought it was just talk\,” Walter said. “A month later\, we started receiving stuff in Brazil from UNI\, everything in English\, with pictures of the dorms\, and I was like\, ‘Oh\, my God\, we’re really going.’” \nThe twins didn’t tell their parents because they knew their mom and dad would be afraid for them. They got help filling out the applications from others. Neither twin could speak or write English then and people in Brazil made them signs in English to help them navigate the airports. \nLearning English was hard\, and the twins were often homesick\, but they never regretted their decision to come to America. “Having each other was a big part of it\,” Walter said. “We never let each other feel sorry about anything in our lives.” \nAs they performed at university events and around town\, music became more important than classes. They started a band\, the B2wins\, which they pronounced B Twins for Brazilian Twins\, where they put their own classical spin on the popular music they grew up loving. The high-energy shows grew popular throughout Iowa and the Midwest\, and they became full-time musicians. They both married. Their American dream was becoming a reality. \nIn 2015\, they were invited to appear at the 80/35 Music Festival in downtown Des Moines\, where there would be thousands in the audience. No one except his wife and Walter knew that Wagner had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and would probably lose his left arm. Wagner thought he would never play the ukulele again\, so he downloaded instructions to teach himself the piano. Grueling chemo followed\, the cancer responded well to treatment and the amputation was canceled. The band played in his absence\, but Wagner made one appearance when treatment ended\, bald and thin\, but with his ukulele\, while Walter played “Lean on Me.” \nThrough it all\, Wagner remained upbeat\, calling it a “crazy adventure.” “Most people get depressed\, and that’s why they lose\,” he said. “They get afraid\, and it overwhelms them. I never look at the negative stuff. I am gonna make it. It’s just cancer. If it comes back\, I will beat it again.” \nHe was declared cancer-free\, and the pair began performing again. In 2019\, they performed 153 shows across 14 states and continued to cultivate a loyal fan base here and around the world\, with unique renditions of the music of everyone from Sinatra to Ed Sheeran and Michael Jackson. From hip-hoppers to jazz aficionados\, pop enthusiasts to ravers\, rockers to reggae lovers\, all found common ground in a show that was\, in equal parts\, a rock concert\, dance party\, jam session and vacation for the soul. \nIt’s been a long journey for the twins from Brazil to the world stage\, but they’ve remained grounded and humble. They like to quote the Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams song\, “Get Lucky:” “We’ve come too far\, to give up who we are.” \nThey have only one mission: to change the world\, one smile at a time. They’re on their way.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/b2wins-music-reimagined/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:Henhouse Prowlers
DESCRIPTION:The Henhouse Prowlers are brand ambassadors\, and the brand is the universality of music. The bluegrass band began life nearly two decades ago in Chicago\, and its mission has always been to balance entertainment and education. Members Ben Wright on vocals and banjo\, Jon Goldfine on vocals and guitar\, Chris Dollar on vocals and guitar\, and Jake Howard on vocals and mandolin are equally committed to both goals. \nWorking with the U.S. State Department and their own non-profit\, Bluegrass Ambassadors\, the quartet has toured more than 25 countries. Using traditional American music as a foundation\, the musicians have connected folk music\, customs\, and history the world over. The band’s experiences with people and musicians across Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and the Middle East have shaped its worldview and broadened its direction towards bridging cultural gaps with music\, educational programs\, and workshops. \nThrough the Bluegrass Ambassadors Workshops\, the Henhouse Prowlers have found commonality with people from different cultures through music. From Qawwali music in Pakistan to West African hip-hop in Nigeria to traditional Tatar songs in Siberia\, to American bluegrass\, the musicians have discovered that every culture has ‘music of the folk’ that runs through the minds of its people. Through these interactions with musicians and music fans across the globe\, the group has developed an understanding that people have a lot more in common than music\, despite our differences. \nDuring these workshops\, a small public address system plays the original versions of the songs\, alongside the Prowlers’ interpretations. A television or projector allows the band to share some of its videos and photos from adventures around the world. Each member of the band can give a workshop on his instrument\, from beginner to advanced level instruction. While this kind of programming is common at more traditional bluegrass festivals\, it is also welcomed at more multi-genre and jam band fests as well. \nAll of this is not to say that the Henhouse Prowlers don’t love their traditional bluegrass. On the group’s recent album\, Lead and Iron\, which features 11 original songs\, one of the featured works is “My Little Flower\,” written by Jake Howard. Jon Goldfine says it is emblematic of what the band is about. “The Prowlers have always straddled the line between traditional and progressive bluegrass\,” he said. “We know Jake’s “Little Flower” exemplifies that perfectly. The drive and lyrics embrace both sides of the music we love so much.” \nJohn Lawless of Bluegrass TODAY is more succinct\, calling it “a hardcore barn burner.” \nThe Prowlers latest album\, Unravel\, released in April 2025\, underscores the band’s resistance to being contained by one genre\, with some songs expressing a modern Americana feel and others nodding to classic country and bluegrass standards. On this newest offering\, their trademark four-piece harmonies have only matured in tone and sincerity. \nThe Prowlers have always been about finding and sharing the commonality we share as human beings through the universal language of music. \nCome hear them speak.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/henhouse-prowlers/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sam Morrow
DESCRIPTION:Sam Morrow has crafted a genre-blurring sound that sits at the crossroads of American roots music\, blending roadhouse rock\, bluesy R&B\, and funky country with a heavy dose of grit and groove. His music is as much about the road as it is about the stories it inspires – songs shaped by years of touring and shaped by life on the move. Five albums in\, Morrow has built a reputation for delivering high-energy\, groove-laden tracks that capture the restless spirit of modern Americana. \nHis latest release\, On The Ride Here\, continues that journey\, both physically and emotionally. Tracks like “Thunderbird Motel” and “Searching for Paradise” highlight his knack for storytelling with a road-worn perspective\, while songs like “Hired Gun” and “Straight and Narrow” reflect on growth\, struggle\, and change. The album balances his usual highway anthems with more introspective moments\, showing a songwriter who’s just as focused on the destination as he is on the ride. \nMorrow’s roots trace back to Houston\, Texas\, where early influences ranged from punk and hip-hop to ZZ Top. But it wasn’t until he moved to Los Angeles\, seeking sobriety and distance from past vices\, that his musical identity started to form. There\, he found new appreciation for country music and began mixing it with a range of styles from Tex-Mex and desert rock to blues and Southern boogie. This eclectic approach has become the signature of his sound: unpolished\, soulful\, and entirely his own. \nCritics and fans alike have embraced Morrow for his raw honesty and grounded storytelling. Praised by Rolling Stone and NPR\, his earlier albums built a strong foundation\, but On The Ride Here feels like a creative breakthrough. Tracks like “Medicine Man” and “On My Way” tackle personal evolution with grit and vulnerability\, while maintaining the swagger and groove that define his style. It’s a record filled with character\, humor\, and hard-won insight – equal parts confessional and celebratory. \nProduced in Southern California by longtime collaborator Eric Corne\, the album features a top-tier group of West Coast musicians and marks the final chapter in a trilogy that began with Concrete & Mud and Gettin’ By On Gettin’ Down. With On The Ride Here\, Morrow sounds more self-assured than ever. He’s found a sound that feels like home even if he’s still searching for what comes next. As Morrow puts it\, staying open\, humble\, and ready to learn has helped him finally sound like himself.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/sam-morrow/
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