Presents: Strings on Grass Sunset Concert Series

Doors open at 7:00, show starts at 8:00

Band members: Jack Burton - vocals Red Young - piano

Michael Stevens - bass Carmelo Tores - percussion Karen Mal - vocals Will Taylor - violin

Born in Austin and raised on Bar-B-Q and tamales in Will Taylor and Strings Attached - Will Taylor started Strings Attached Lockhart TX, Jack Burton loves to bring a tasty groove so as a genre-blurring collaboration with folk artists. Will’s vision invited the you can shake what your mama gave ya. fusion of jazz and classical flavors with contemporary singer/songwriter genre- to dress up the latter with different jewelry: His 9-piece soul smorgasbord, the aptly named “Jack “Imagine what might happen”, suggests Taylor, “If we took Austin's most Burton Trio”, was voted one of the Top 10 live performing popular singer-songwriters -- Abra Moore, or Jimmy LaFave, or Patrice bands in the Blues category of the 2014 Austin Music Pike, or Ray Wylie Hubbard -- and let them perform, live, in a church? Awards. Then imagine if you paired those artists with acoustic "chamber" instruments -- cello, violin, viola, trumpet and hand drums -- and wrote “I guess I’d call it ‘Austin Soul’ if I had to nail it down. new arrangements, adding dashes of jazz and classical music, that Austin’s got such a great history for Blues and Rock and it revealed new facets of their most beautiful or familiar songs?” just seems to creep into the Soul sound that we start from,” "Imagine what might happen if you dared to blur all these boundaries says Burton. “It’s like a good brisket: first you take a nice between pop music and jazz, between rock music and classical music, juicy cut of Soul and rub it down with the Blues, then spice it between the musical realm and the lyrical realm, between the honky-tonk and the church, and in the spirit of art and fun and experimentation, you up with plenty of Funk, and throw in a pinch of Southern reached out for something . . . transcendent"- (Interview-Austin American Rock for sweetness. Then slow cook it in a hot sweaty love Statesman) oven until it’s dripping with groove.” The transcendent music of Strings Attached has as its foundation the With more than 15 years of writing and performing architectural precision of composition and arranging from the classical everything from Roots Rock, Hip Hop, to Gospel and Alt tradition. Jazz influences the performance ethic allowing musicians to abandon the score to make spontaneous choices in response to the Rock, Jack has developed a soulful sound infused with the present moment. The spice of this magical brew is that irresistible zest best flavors of all his past projects. of "swing" - the thing that gets people dancing.

You’ll find Jack serving up his brand of Soul backed by his Strings Attached backed Pearl Jam on Austin City Limits and P Diddy 9-piece Jack Burton Trio, all lonely-like with his acoustic hired the band for NBC’s Tribute to the Troops. Ray Wylie Hubbard, Eliza Gilkyson and legendary songwriters Chip Taylor and James guitar and versatile voice, or fronting the Motown, Soul & McMurtry have been featured collaborators with Strings Attached. Funk show band The All Nights. "Will Taylor has a musical proposition for you -- a playful, dignified, off- kilter idea that brings honor to Austin's identity as 'The Live Music Capital of the World.' It's a cool concept. But it's just a bit . . . different.” The Austin American-Statesman

Special Thanks to Deep Eddy Media and Dave Pedley Photography If this is your first Strings Attached Show, please visit the merchandise table for a free Mystery Bootleg CD to enjoy a wide range of our music in your car or at home. You can also get one of these CDs if you volunteer for us.

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