Jess Klein | Grant Peeples
Jess Klein
The Ramkat & Gas Hill Drinking Room
170 W 9th St
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Aug 8, 2024
8:00 PM EDT
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Pleased to welcome Jess Klein back to Gas Hill Drinking Room on August 8, 2024, with special guest Grant Peeples Artist Page! Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM.
Tickets are on sale NOW at TheRamkat.com!
Over two decades and 11 albums, Jess Klein has pursued a remarkable creative evolution that’s seen her dig ever deeper for resonant emotional insights, while continuing to refine her eloquently melodic, effortlessly accessible song-craft. Her live shows explore the musical offerings of many styles - from rock n roll to folk to classic jazz standards. She shares songs of personal healing, growth and change with her audience, always leaving them moved, uplifted, and empowered.
A self-described “tree-hugger that watches NASCAR,” Grant Peeples is known for his axe-sharp socio-political tunes, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads.
He is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence, which cited the “humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their “unflinching social insight and cultural acuity.” Grant tours coast to coast and is a repeat performer at The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival, and The Florida Folk Festival. In June 2023 he made his debut at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival.
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The Ramkat is a two-level, 11,670- square-foot, 1,000-person-capacity live music venue located in the Industry Hill neighborhood of downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
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Jess Klein Biography
A native of snowy Rochester, NY, Jess Klein picked up the acoustic guitar and started writing songs while living as a student abroad in Kingston, Jamaica in her late teens. Her first songs reflected a bittersweet culture shock as well as the warmth and musical vibrancy of these new surroundings. While shopping for cassette tapes of dub poets Mutabaruka and Linton Kwesi Johnson, fate put her in touch with the MC of a weekly dub poetry and music session, who took an interest in her talent and encouraged her to audition for a guest slot. Upon hearing the first song Klein had written, the host, locally renowned author Lady Elean Thomas declared, “She have soul, mon.”
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