Name: Willie Watson
Start: 2025-11-08T20:00:00-06:00
Location: The White Water Tavern

The great Willie Watson w/ special guest Gabrielle Hope. Advance tickets available for $25 @ www.whitewatertavern.com
After 30 years of playing music professionally, Willie Watson is releasing his debut album. A founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show, and a staple on the folk and americana circuit - Willie is no stranger to the stage and to audiences. But this is his first album of original music, aptly self titled, and a bold and confident statement in both song mastery and sonics. This record is about beating the devil. Willie didn't make any specific pact with him, but he had been tangled up with him his whole life. At 44, he has lived and lost and simply witnessed enough to know he has something to sing with his exquisite rural tenor. By and large, these are his stories of heartbreak and hurt, backlit by the corona of hope that only growth can provide.
Gabrielle Hope is not your average 20-year-old singer-songwriter. Raised in Tennessee as one of 10 kids and now based in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Hope eschewed college due to its high cost and turned towards the world of shape note singing in search of community. Practiced for centuries, shape note singing allows for easier sight reading because the practitioners start with syllables (fa, sol, la, mi, etc.) and add in lyrics later. Particularly in Appalachia and the South, oftentimes in churches, large groups still come together to learn four-part harmonies and honor this sacred tradition