Songs of Hank Williams

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Friday, November 30th, 2018
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Harbour City Concerts is pleased to present The Songs of Hank Williams.

This concert brings David Chenery, Dave Harris, and David P. Smith together in a shifting line-up – trios, duos, and solo – that broadly covers the Hank Williams songbook. You’ll hear the defining hits, obscure hidden gems, weepers, and stompers. This is not a museum piece. The Three Davids are not recreating the sound of Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys, they are interpreting the music with love, vitality, respect, energy, and emotion. Converging from very different paths and armed with a variety of instruments including guitar, mandolin and accordion, the three Davids inhabit the songs and music of the performer and writer who more than any single person defined what country and western music is: Hank Williams.

This year, 2018, marks sixty-five years since Hank's untimely and tragic death at the age of 29. Yet he left behind a compelling and affecting body of work. Many of Hank’s songs have become standards of the American songbook and have crossed the boundaries of popular music. They can be acutely sad, seriously silly, or the swinging soundtrack to a party. The rawness of the emotion is real, rarely maudlin, and deep enough to sometimes be unsettling. The imagery is poignant, the humour is sly and irreverent, and this stuff swings baby. These are great songs that continue to be relevant and continue to be discovered by new generations of music lovers.

Advance tickets available online: https://hankwilliamsnanaimo2.eventbrite.ca, and in person from Fascinating Rhythm (51 Commercial St), Arbutus Music (6324 Metral Dr)