Connor Jay Liess

Local folksingers Connor Jay Liess and Gary "Ol' Slim" Eller are bellying up at Idaho's oldest brewery—Crescent Brewing in Nampa—for a full afternoon of original and early-Idaho traditionals about its earliest days as a territory. One of them will be kicking things off at 2 p.m. that Saturday. About Gary Eller: Gary Eller has played American roots music since he grew up in rural West Virginia. Following a thirty-year career as a nuclear scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, he retired to Nampa and immediately became deeply involved in Idaho history and music. Since initial funding from the Idaho Humanities Council in 2007 and 2008, he has compiled about 200 historically rooted songs of our region and performs them at many events throughout Idaho. Gary works closely with regional museums and universities to collect, archive, and bring to life through performance and interpretation the wonderful windows into Idaho’s heritage that these songs present. To date he has published eighteen thematic books with CDs based on these songs. 🔗: http://www.bonafidaho.com/idahosongs.htm About Connor Jay Liess: Connor Jay Liess is a singer-songwriter, Idaho balladeer, and roadkill mortician in Boise, Idaho. His songs and stories aim to bridge the gap between a festering modernity and an evaporating timelapse of woodsmanship, gold prospecting, railroad engineers, and men and women of the American frontier. Since he was a teenager, he has been on a never-ending migration back to the days when people lived closer to the land, passed stories around a fire or supper table, and weren’t laden with the stupidity of social media trends and politics. He has always felt disconnected from the modern age and uses his songs and stories to retreat deep into a reclusive asylum full of crackling vinyl, chirping songbirds, and resonant banjos. Connor Jay Liess currently lives in Idaho, where he works as an outdoor writer and founder of Trapper’s Attic Records. 🔗: https://www.trappersattic.com 📷: @catchandreliess