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Graham Weber's Songwriter Sessions w/ Danni Nicholls, Bonnie Montgomery & Gordy Quist

  • The 04 Center 2701 S Lamar Blvd Austin United States (map)

Doors @ 7pm
Show @ 8pm
Full Bar
Free On-site Parking
All Ages

Graham Weber

Folk troubadour, crooning balladeer, country drifter, father, husband and artistic director. Come
on, what’d you expect? This is Austin. A seasoned musician, Graham Weber has released six
solo studio and two live albums, as well as band releases with So, Long Problems and critically
acclaimed, Western Youth. Weber currently is the singer and primary songwriter in Austin Rock
and Roll band - Restos. He has toured North America and Europe, and supported many of his
songwriting heroes including Guy Clark, Slaid Cleaves, Todd Snider, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and
Alejandro Escovado, among others. Since 2016, Graham has been the artistic director for The
House of Songs – an organization that has created artist collaborations across 33 countries in
an effort to bridge cultures and manifest international collaborations in music. In his role, he has
curated hundreds of cowrites, organized writing residency workshops, and hosted, produced
and booked countless live events, fundraisers and concert series. Weber has booked and
produced events vital to Austin, and across the country, including HAAM Benefit Tribute Nights
at Threadgills and Cactus Cafe, SXSW showcases from 2006-2018 consecutively, as well as
the Folk Alliance International (2016-20), Americanafest Nashville and UK (2018-19), and the
FreshGrass Festival (2021-22). An Austinite since 2004 and just genuinely a peace lovin’ dude,
Graham appears casual in what everyone else recognizes as relentless devotion to a mission to
inspire and support music and its creators – the heartbeat of our city and to some, the world.

Danni Nicholls

Hailing from Bedfordshire, England, growing up on the American roots music of her
Anglo-Indian grandmother’s record collection, singer/songwriter Danni Nicholls has been paving
her way in UK Americana for over a decade, building a loyal fan base and much critical praise.
With the wind still in her sails from three consecutive Americana Music Association UK award
nominations (Album, Artist and Song of the year in 2017, 2018 & 2020 respectively) plus
extensive tours and opening slots with the likes of The Secret Sisters and Lucinda Williams,
Danni, her powerful, arresting voice and her dynamically poetic original songs are ever-gaining
presence and reach. Her powerful self penned songs span the Americana spectrum. With
comparisons to artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Brandi Carlile and Roseanne Cash, Danni’s
vibrant, captivating performances are all but guaranteed to melt your heart into the soles of your
boots. Her passionate delivery, captivating voice, mesmerizing guitar skills and charmingly
engaging between-song banter compel you to fall under her spell.

Bonnie Montgomery

Bonnie Montgomery is a creative nomad, lauded as enthusiastically for her polished
parlor songs as she is for her lawless country barnburners — or for the classical opera
arias she’s penned at the piano. With roots in White County, Arkansas and a firm foothold on forward-thinking audiences in Texas and around the world, Montgomery is armed with a poet’s phrasing, a
soprano’s crystalline timbre and a revolutionary’s spirit, and her repertoire ranges
wherever it damn well pleases — from high romantic ballads swaddled in violins to fiery
anthems of dissent to spaghetti western-inspired vignettes.
Dale Watson called her “a sophisticated badass who was born to sing.” Counterpunch
Magazine hailed her operatic compositions as “white trash arias, soaked in alcohol and
sex.”
Her 2016 short-length opera about Bill Clinton’s youth in Hot Springs has earned
accolades from The New Yorker and Huffington Post, and her second full-length album
“Forever” drew praise from Paste magazine for its “timeless songwriting.”
Montgomery secured the title of 2020 Entertainer of the Year with the Arkansas Country
Music Awards, ACMA 2019 Americana/Roots Artist of the Year, the title of Outlaw
Female at the 2016 Ameripolitan Awards and the titles of Best Americana Artist and
Best Female Vocalist at the 2018 Arkansas Country Music Awards.
As a classical composer, her opera, Billy Blythe, about the teenage years of Bill Clinton
growing up in Arkansas, took the classical world by storm, getting worldwide coverage
from dozens of networks and news sources from the BBC to CNN. The opera had its
world premiere at Opera Ithaca after developmental workshop performances in
Arkansas and New York City and has gone on to be performed by opera companies and
colleges and universities around the country.
Her vocal work for two voices, piano and steel guitar, "Song Beyond Words: A
Vocalise", was commissioned for Carnegie Hall in 2019 and has gone on to be recorded
and released as a music video which has played film festivals around the world. It is
featured on the virtual album CALL OUT, a celebration of female composers originally
scheduled for Carnegie Hall by celebrated Broadway and Metropolitan Opera star
Zachary James. The composition is the first to use steel guitar in an operatic medium.
Montgomery has supported major acts in the US and abroad, including The Gossip,
Billy Jo Shaver, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Hayes Carll, Sturgill Simpson,
Chris Stapleton, Shovels and Rope, Joe Ely, and many more.
And, with two singles produced by rockabilly legend Rosie Flores with debuts on Sirius
XM's Outlaw Country, and a touring collaboration with Texas troubadour Ray Wylie
Hubbard in her rearview mirror, Montgomery’s leaving little doubt that she’s a master in
the making — a charismatic collaborator, a commanding bandleader and a prolific,
sensitive conduit for big ideas about beauty, defiance and power.
With a new album ready for release and a new catalogue of classical music soon to be
premiered, Montgomery continues on - with effortless diversity - to pioneer a modern,
post-genre world, while staying firmly grounded in the New South. 

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David Ramirez & Dylan LeBlanc