The Lowdown:
Headliner:
Based In:
Asheville, North Carolina
Genres:
Americana, folk, Southern folk, modern folk, singer-songwriter
Venue:
The Rialto Theatre, Akron, Ohio
Concert Date:
April 6, 2018
Opening Acts:
Augest 20, 2018
Christopher Paul Stelling with Daniel Patrick:
The Rialto Theatre, April 6, 2018
All photos by Jason D. 'Diesel' Hamad, No Surf Music
A Christopher Paul Stelling concert always seems like a reverberation of the past with his ancient, scratch-monogramed guitar and Southern folk vocals transmitted to the audience via a well-patinaed condenser mic. His fingerpicking, foot-stomping flair affects a vibe somewhere between medicine show and back-porch hootenanny, the spirited music interspersed with Guthriesque populist preaching and storytelling. This particular occasion, he made special effort to regale the audience with the tale of how the two of us once got drunk in Tulsa with a bunch of Bush-loving Oklahoma oil bros who had nevertheless found themselves among the audience of a semi-radical folk singer at a center dedicated to a proud communist. They were buying.
The feeling of time displacement is only enhanced when the aforementioned concert is held at Akron’s Rialto Theatre, a recently restored turn-of-the-20th movie house with its own historical charm. The sepia-tinted feel of the show inspired similar treatment in a number of this gallery’s photos.
Local singer-songwriter Brian Patrick, recently repatriated from Virginia, opened the night.
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