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🎶 This is the fourth First Friday Concert in the Square of the series, which will run every 1st Friday May-August, plus October. Concerts are FREE & open to the public. The event will also feature *FREE* Face Painting and crafts for the kiddos, an Art Walk beginning at 4pm, and more. ❤ Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs & picnic blankets, and enjoy dining, strolling the shops, creative activities and all The Grassroots District has to offer. 🎸Ginger Wixx will open the show from 6-6:45 and Spencer Elliot's ES3 will take the stage from 7-9pm.
⭐ About the Artists:
🎙️Spencer Elliot’s SE3
Spencer Elliott began composing instrumental music on piano growing up in West Virginia, influenced at the time by contemporary composers like George Winston. He later picked up guitar but was more influenced at that time by punk and progressive alternative music. For more than two decades, Spencer performed as vocalist and occasional guitarist in a number of punk and alternative bands. It wasn’t until 2007 that Spencer turned his focus to progressive instrumental steel string guitar. Spencer spent several years taking inspiration from and studying compositions by the likes of Hedges, Ross, McKee and Dufour, among others. (All while maintaining a love for influences ranging from Beethoven to Billie Holiday to Bad Brains).
Once Spencer began to write progressive finger style pieces, his compositional elements pulled not only from his piano background but also from his affinity for edgier guitar music. Spencer views modern finger style as part of the "Free Space" to borrow a phrase from Ian MacKaye (singer for Minor Threat and Fugazi and owner of fiercely independent record label Dischord Records). It is a place where new and original artistic ideas continue to bloom and are not borne of a profit motive but from a compulsion to be creative. Spencer's compositions contain rich melodic and percussive landscapes that fuse his contrasting influences and place them on full display.
His trio project SE3 reimagines eight previously released solo pieces and two new solo compositions in a heavy trio format with the talents of Sean Sydnor on bass and Chris Hudson on drums.
spencerelliott.net
🎵Emerging songwriter Ginger Wixx is turning heads everywhere she goes with her unique vocal stylings and lyrical ponderings. With a taste of southern rock with jazz vocal stylings and writing influences from alternative genres and the blues, Ginger comes from Kenova, WV as a full time singer-songwriter and traveling musician. Catch her at venues all over the region, and watch as her star rises.
facebook.com/gingerwixx
This concert is presented by RiffRaff Arts Collective with support from WVU Medicine/Princeton Community Hospital and Mercer County Commission.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mercer Street Grassroots District, 850 Mercer St, Princeton, WV 24740-2908, United States,Princeton, West Virginia
