Dani-Rae Clark, Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers, Johanna Wacker

Join us on our patio for an incredible evening of live music featuring Dani-Rae Clark!

If you wanna understand Dani-Rae Clark, you’ll have to meet Loretta first. Loretta is a calm, quizzical, quiet pitbull with a lazy eye and a loving demeanor. She’s named for the classic country queen of upstart women, and you better believe that’s by design. If a dog does indeed mimic its owner, Loretta’s comfort in the widest array of venues, in clubs and theaters and dancehalls and dives, serve as a perfect foil for Dani-Rae, who thrives on any stage for any audience. So poignant are their songs that tales of queer and tragic love could melt even the most hardened heart and open the most narrow mind. Their songs are undeniably universal and inclusively human.

A gut punch, an understanding embrace, a hand through your hair, Dani-Rae’s unmistakable songs unite an ever-unfolding breadth of experiences. Their methodically thrifted vintage blouses and dresses are just as much an homage to 40s and 50s country legends like Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline as they are a sleeve to cry on for a friend—or roll up for a fight. They write with a brutal honesty and devilishly coy poetic flair, delivered in their confident, expressive, and absolutely haunting alto.

Dani-Rae’s from somewhere, but who could say where. They came up in Western Canada or Northern Idaho or Southern Arizona. Along the way, they found a family in a circus-like cadre of troubadour musicians by constantly and consistently touring this continent’s highways. Indeed, more than anything, more than anywhere, their enduring home is the bench seat of a Toyota pickup beside Loretta en route to their next gig.

Now in Nashville, this songwriting dynamo has redoubled their drive. A writer of intriguing and intoxicating contradictions, queer stories and characters - ever the center of their musical soul - blossom from vintage country roots. They wear their influences proudly while interrogating the heteronormativity and patriarchy of both the traditional, and far more crucially, the contemporary country world. They’re particularly adept at finding and relating spaces of strange convergence in this life, where murder ballads overlap with a desperate mother’s triumph, or where traveling tunes meet desperate dysfunction miles from anywhere— and hell—where Christmas songs play out through gas station pay-phones. Their ability to fold uniquely modern experiences into the fabric of timeless and threadbare traditions is where this riveting, exciting, and endlessly unique country singer thrives. Dani-Rae Clark will leave you in stitches, in love, in tears, and indignant. But no matter what, they’ll leave you wanting more.

Joining them on stage is Cassidy Snider & the Wranglers—a band with roots firmly planted in the riverbank soil of Richmond, Virginia. Led by the traveling troubadour, Cassidy Snider, this folk outlet is a grassy assortment of her wanderlust-filled soul with sounds of the New Orleans bayou, the blue ridge mountains, and every accent between. From dive bar corners to venue bright lights, each song kicks dirt off the dance floor with story-filled twang. Blending genres, yet always tinged in Cassidy's blues, they have developed a unique sound that morphs the musical styles of the American past with a voicing that can only be sung by this band's bright future.

Also joining them is singer-songwriter and roots musician from Queens, NY, Johanna Wacker! Beginning songwriting at the age of 11, Johanna’s music has evolved with inspirations from early country, Appalachian old-time, bluegrass, blues, and the American folk revival. Johanna is breaking barriers in country music by being unapologetically herself: “I’m openly gay. I’m sober. I’m a proud New Yorker with Appalachian heritage. I carry my banjo on the subway like a badge of honor.”

Bring all your pals for this one, folks! It will be a night to remember. Can't wait to see you there!