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The Watters
The Watters play the Sedona International Film Festival
Sedona Performing Arts Center
995 Upper Red Rock Loop Rd
Sedona, AZ 86336
Mar 3, 2024
7:00 PM MST
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About this concert
Join us for a FREE concert to celebrate 30 years of the Sedona International Film Festival!
This is our way of thanking all of YOU — our supporters, audience members and sponsors — and the entire Sedona community for supporting us for three decades!
Sedona natives Daniel and Jenna Watters will be returning from Austin, TX with their band “The Watters” to perform this FREE closing night concert as the finale to the 30th Anniversary Festival!
The Watters are a seven-piece “Americana/Soul” band that is reminiscent of Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, and Tedeschi Trucks Band. This will be The Watters first return to Sedona with the full band since 2018 with the band on the brink of releasing their fifth album “Duality.” Though the new album will be officially released to the public on April 11, attendees of this concert event will have exclusive access to hear new songs at the performance.
Daniel and Jenna have been performing together since 2005 when they first sang together at the Sedona Cultural Park for their graduation from Sedona Red Rock High School. They performed all around Northern Arizona as The Oak Creek Band from 2009-2014 and became The Watters in 2015 when they moved to Austin. Since then, they have become one of Austin’s staple bands and won grand prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2021 for their song “Deja Vu.”
Get your FREE TICKETS to this extraordinary concert event today! Available on a first-come, first-served basis. And be ready to CELEBRATE three decades of the Sedona International Film Festival and our community!
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Sandra
August 11th 2023
Enjoy the Watters!! They write and perform great songs, he is a guitar virtuoso, she has a vibrant personality and a wonderful and expressive voice.
Go see them if you haven’t already!
My first time at the Pershing, very comfortable and classy.
Austin, TX@Pershing
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The Watters Biography
The Watters honed their one-of-a-kind sound wandering around the country and soaking up their habitats. Born and raised in Sedona, The Watters developed their eclectic sound after living in several dramatically different cities including Los Angeles, Denver, Nashville and now Austin. Seamlessly blending Americana, Soul, Rock and Jazz, they have been described as “Fleetwood Mac with a horn section.” Daniel and Jenna Watters have collaborated on seven albums together under various monikers, and they released their debut record, GREAT UNKNOWN, as “They Watters” in 2016. They have garnered a devoted fan base through their energetic performances, stirring vocals and road-weathered musicianship. For The Watters, life and music are one, their journey together being their greatest muse.
With fifteen years of music collaboration together, husband and wife duo Daniel & Jenna Watters embrace a sound they call “Americana Soul”. Aided by some of Austin’s finest musicians, The Watters is full of the rich experience and expert contributions of everyone involved. Lively horn riffs and lingering vocal melodies serve as a cornerstone for the new album, which features well-crafted songwriting, the electric energy of a live performance and unique genre that is both indefinably new yet always familiar.
The Watters became an Austin band in 2015. “On one of our trips home to Sedona,” says Daniel, “we were convinced to take a long detour to Austin, TX and ended up at a show at The Continental Club Gallery where we decided that night we had to move here.”
Now, after recording two albums and playing relentlessly around Austin for five years, The Watters, whose airtight version of Americana/Soul often elicits comparisons to Fleetwood Mac (to whom they’ve been known to play Tribute shows around ATX), Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Rilo Kiley, have won a major grant from local music non-profit Blackfret and are preparing to release their new album Intuition on January 23rd, 2021.
Intuition’s primary genre is heavy and/or profound lyrics delivered with buoyancy and amusement. Horns and organs trill around sharp corners. Perfectly executed harmonies and immaculate vocals envelop the tracks in a warmth that often belies the lyrical content. That duality is life, if you’re lucky, and it’s what The Watters excel at.
Intuition was recorded live over five days at Good Danny’s Studio (Sheerwater, Wye Oak, Of Montreal) in Lockhart, TX in October 2019. It features JJ Johnson (Tedeschi Trucks Band) on drums, Anthony Farrell (Greyhounds) on Organ, Trevor Nealon (Band of Heathens) on Keys, and Joe Beckham on Bass. Horns and vocals were overdubbed at Birdhouse Studios and background vocals were recorded during Covid-19 lockdown. Intuition was mixed by Danny Reisch of Good Danny’s and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.
Read MoreWith fifteen years of music collaboration together, husband and wife duo Daniel & Jenna Watters embrace a sound they call “Americana Soul”. Aided by some of Austin’s finest musicians, The Watters is full of the rich experience and expert contributions of everyone involved. Lively horn riffs and lingering vocal melodies serve as a cornerstone for the new album, which features well-crafted songwriting, the electric energy of a live performance and unique genre that is both indefinably new yet always familiar.
The Watters became an Austin band in 2015. “On one of our trips home to Sedona,” says Daniel, “we were convinced to take a long detour to Austin, TX and ended up at a show at The Continental Club Gallery where we decided that night we had to move here.”
Now, after recording two albums and playing relentlessly around Austin for five years, The Watters, whose airtight version of Americana/Soul often elicits comparisons to Fleetwood Mac (to whom they’ve been known to play Tribute shows around ATX), Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Rilo Kiley, have won a major grant from local music non-profit Blackfret and are preparing to release their new album Intuition on January 23rd, 2021.
Intuition’s primary genre is heavy and/or profound lyrics delivered with buoyancy and amusement. Horns and organs trill around sharp corners. Perfectly executed harmonies and immaculate vocals envelop the tracks in a warmth that often belies the lyrical content. That duality is life, if you’re lucky, and it’s what The Watters excel at.
Intuition was recorded live over five days at Good Danny’s Studio (Sheerwater, Wye Oak, Of Montreal) in Lockhart, TX in October 2019. It features JJ Johnson (Tedeschi Trucks Band) on drums, Anthony Farrell (Greyhounds) on Organ, Trevor Nealon (Band of Heathens) on Keys, and Joe Beckham on Bass. Horns and vocals were overdubbed at Birdhouse Studios and background vocals were recorded during Covid-19 lockdown. Intuition was mixed by Danny Reisch of Good Danny’s and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.
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