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"Sell out warning! The shot in the arm blues rock needed. Amythyst makes shimmering Southern Americana instilled with Black power and gay pride; confrontational protest songs mixed with rousingly personal tales of love and anguish, and everywhere Kiah’s jawdropping vocal theatrics. The hottest thing in country blues right now FFO: Valerie June, Shovels & Rope, Emmylou Harris, Rhiannon Giddens."
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A gig held at Exchange on Saturday 31st January. The event starts at 20:00.
£20 Adv
7:30pm doors
A commanding live performer blessed with an unforgettable voice, Amythyst Kiah combines the political and the deeply personal in her music; embracing spirituality, grief, joy, healing and love in all its incarnations.
Produced by Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Green Day, Weezer) and recorded at his Nashville studio, her latest album Still + Bright merges her revelatory storytelling with a darkly cinematic twist. Encompassing everything from fuzzed-out guitars to gilded pedal steel and Kiah’s exquisitely graceful banjo, Still + Bright fully affirms her as an artist of both daring originality and uncompromising depth. Featuring collaborations with S.G. Goodman and Billy Strings, the project also marks a complete transformation in Kiah’s songwriting process: her first time opening up her approach and working with co-writers on an album.
Her breakthrough 2021 Rounder Records debut, Wary + Strange, marked the glorious combination of two different worlds: the alt-rock that first sparked her musical passion and the roots/old-time music scene where she’d found a creative home. The Tennessee singer-songwriter is expanding on the uncompromising artistry she had revealed as part of Our Native Daughters - an all-women-of-colour supergroup whose Kiah-penned standout Black Myself earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best American Roots Song and won Song of the Year at the 2019 Folk Alliance International Awards. Wary + Strange earned multiple Americana Music Association Award nominations both in the US and UK in 2021.
“Amythyst Kiah will remind you what it is to love live music.” - No Depression
“Amythyst Kiah digs very deep, expanding her musical space, opening up her songwriting process, displaying a greater vocal range and delivering a very personal message – it’s a remarkable and powerful album.” - Americana UK
"A masterful blend of lonesome folk and neo-blues"- Rolling Stone
eartrumpet
Exchange has a small ramp entrance from the street. Our bar and main event space are on the ground floor with level access throughout and we have an accessible toilet. If you need any other info on accessibility, please contact [email protected]
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
7:30pm doors
A commanding live performer blessed with an unforgettable voice, Amythyst Kiah combines the political and the deeply personal in her music; embracing spirituality, grief, joy, healing and love in all its incarnations.
Produced by Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Green Day, Weezer) and recorded at his Nashville studio, her latest album Still + Bright merges her revelatory storytelling with a darkly cinematic twist. Encompassing everything from fuzzed-out guitars to gilded pedal steel and Kiah’s exquisitely graceful banjo, Still + Bright fully affirms her as an artist of both daring originality and uncompromising depth. Featuring collaborations with S.G. Goodman and Billy Strings, the project also marks a complete transformation in Kiah’s songwriting process: her first time opening up her approach and working with co-writers on an album.
Her breakthrough 2021 Rounder Records debut, Wary + Strange, marked the glorious combination of two different worlds: the alt-rock that first sparked her musical passion and the roots/old-time music scene where she’d found a creative home. The Tennessee singer-songwriter is expanding on the uncompromising artistry she had revealed as part of Our Native Daughters - an all-women-of-colour supergroup whose Kiah-penned standout Black Myself earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best American Roots Song and won Song of the Year at the 2019 Folk Alliance International Awards. Wary + Strange earned multiple Americana Music Association Award nominations both in the US and UK in 2021.
“Amythyst Kiah will remind you what it is to love live music.” - No Depression
“Amythyst Kiah digs very deep, expanding her musical space, opening up her songwriting process, displaying a greater vocal range and delivering a very personal message – it’s a remarkable and powerful album.” - Americana UK
"A masterful blend of lonesome folk and neo-blues"- Rolling Stone
eartrumpet
Exchange has a small ramp entrance from the street. Our bar and main event space are on the ground floor with level access throughout and we have an accessible toilet. If you need any other info on accessibility, please contact [email protected]
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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