Presents: Strings on Grass Sunset Concert Series Featuring Ronny Cox

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Doors open at 6:00, show starts at 7:00

Band members:

Karen Mal - Mandolin and Voice Will Taylor - Violin Stephen Zirkel -Trumpet Andrew Pressman - Bass Charles Prewitt - Cello Mike Collins – Sound

Actor and singer/songwriter Ronny Cox has not only made over Will Taylor and Strings Attached - Will Taylor started Strings Attached 125 television and movie appearances, but has also released 8 as a genre-blurring collaboration with folk artists. Will’s vision invited the fusion of and classical flavors with contemporary singer/songwriter albums as a singer/songwriter. genre- to dress up the latter with different jewelry:

Ronny Cox’s first time in front of the camera featured him playing the “Imagine what might happen”, suggests Taylor, “If we took Austin's most in the Dueling scene in Deliverance, creating one of the popular singer-songwriters -- , or Jimmy LaFave, or Patrice most iconic moments in the history of moviemaking. He has also Pike, or Ray Wylie Hubbard -- and let them perform, live, in a church? appeared in films like Beverly Hills Cop, Total Recall, Taps, Bound For Then imagine if you paired those artists with acoustic "chamber" instruments -- cello, violin, viola, trumpet and hand drums -- and wrote Glory, and The Onion Field. Despite his great success in movies and new arrangements, adding dashes of jazz and classical music, that TV, what he says he loves most is singing and playing the guitar. revealed new facets of their most beautiful or familiar songs?” According to him, nothing cuts through to the heart like music. The acting experience simply enhances his musical and song-writing skills. "Imagine what might happen if you dared to blur all these boundaries between pop music and jazz, between and classical music, between the musical realm and the lyrical realm, between the honky-tonk Ronny’s music is eclectic; a woven tapestry of songs and stories with an and the church, and in the spirit of art and fun and experimentation, you overall arc that eventually comes together and tells something about reached out for something . . . transcendent"- (Interview-Austin American “the human condition”. Scores of fans and promoters will attest that Statesman) attending one of his performances is one of the greatest evenings to The transcendent music of Strings Attached has as its foundation the experience. With the gift of a consummate storyteller, he shares funny, architectural precision of composition and arranging from the classical sad and tender moments. His loyal band of listeners are blessed, if only tradition. Jazz influences the performance ethic allowing musicians to for a while, to spend time with a truly remarkable man. Enhancing these abandon the score to make spontaneous choices in response to the great stories is the music provided by Ronny and his band of world- present moment. The spice of this magical brew is that irresistible zest class, virtuoso musicians. of "swing" - the thing that gets people dancing. Strings Attached backed Pearl Jam on Austin City Limits and P Diddy “…he is a study in easygoing amiability and unforced charisma. He hired the band for NBC’s Tribute to the Troops. Ray Wylie Hubbard, charms crowds with self-teasing humor, tart progressive insight, and a Eliza Gilkyson and legendary songwriters Chip Taylor and James lulling Southwestern folk sound….” Scott Alarik, Boston Globe McMurtry have been featured collaborators with Strings Attached. "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

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