THE MINT MARDI GRAS MASQUERADE CONCERT BENEFITING HIGHER GROUNDCOME
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR HIGHER GROUND WITH THE BAND OF HEATHENS
THE BAND OF HEATHENS + The Weary Times (Opener)
AGE 21+ / DOORS 7:00PM / SHOW 8:00PM
ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL AND NON-REFUNDABLE
Sometimes it’s the “happy accidents,” rather than elaborately
laid plans, that lead to something lasting, and that’s precisely the
case with award-winning Austin rock and roll stalwarts, The Band of
Heathens.
“It’s really funny how the loose, tequila-fueled weekly
side-project that started almost 14 years ago has evolved into what
the band is today,” singer and songwriter Gordy Quist says with a
laugh as he recalls the band’s road to success.
But planned or not, the band has enjoyed sustained success for more
than a decade, racking up 10 albums and more than twelve hundred
performances in thirteen countries. Quist and Ed Jurdi, the band’s
other principal singer and songwriter, are the only founding members
still in the group that first came together in 2005. The core lineup
of Jurdi and Quist on guitars and lead vocals, were joined by Trevor
Nealon on keys in 2009 and Richard Millsap on drums in 2012. Bassist
Jesse Wilson came on board in 2017.
Despite a few changes in personnel along the way, one thing has
remained constant for the band. “The thing we always set out to do
was to make timeless music, timeless records,” Jurdi says. “Not
what’s fashionable or what’s trendy, but what inspires us.”
“As the band was getting together and going, Gordy and I seemed to
have similar focus in terms of what our ambitions were for making
music and taking it beyond the confines of what we were doing,
presenting it on a bigger level,” Jurdi continues. It’s not just
writing and performing the songs, there are endless choices that go
into establishing the right aesthetic and tone for the presentation of
the entire band, both on stage and in our recordings.”
The Band of Heathens’ first two releases were live recordings and
the funky, soulful, rootsy sounds on those live records would come to
be the band’s hallmark. “People say, ‘What kind of music do you
play,’ and we say, ‘Rock and roll,’” Quist says. “And it’s
always like, ‘Oh, rock?’ ‘No, not rock, rock and roll, with the
roll in it.’ Because the roll implies a groove and a funkiness that
modern rock just does not have. … We’re a rock and roll band.”
Between 2008 and 2016, The Band of Heathens released five studio
albums, four of which went to either number one or number two on the
Americana Radio Albums Chart, and earned a pair of Americana Music
Awards nominations. Then in 2018, they released the acclaimed A
Message from the People Revisited, a recreation of the legendary 1972
Ray Charles album, A Message from the People.
Also in 2018, Quist and a friend purchased The Finishing School, a
studio in Austin where the band had frequently worked, after the
passing of the studio’s owner, their longtime friend and producer,
George Reiff.
“We’re really fortunate to be in a position to have access to a
creative workspace like The Finishing School. It’s allowing us to
take the final step in realizing some greater creative vision. We’ve
laid down about 15 new songs over the past several months, with plans
for some of this material to be included on a full length album in
2020, says Jurdi.
COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR HIGHER GROUND WITH THE BAND OF HEATHENS
THE BAND OF HEATHENS + The Weary Times (Opener)
Sometimes it’s the “happy accidents,” rather than elaborately
laid plans, that lead to something lasting, and that’s precisely the
case with award-winning Austin rock and roll stalwarts, The Band of
Heathens.
“It’s really funny how the loose, tequila-fueled weekly
side-project that started almost 14 years ago has evolved into what
the band is today,” singer and songwriter Gordy Quist says with a
laugh as he recalls the band’s road to success.
But planned or not, the band has enjoyed sustained success for more
than a decade, racking up 10 albums and more than twelve hundred
performances in thirteen countries. Quist and Ed Jurdi, the band’s
other principal singer and songwriter, are the only founding members
still in the group that first came together in 2005. The core lineup
of Jurdi and Quist on guitars and lead vocals, were joined by Trevor
Nealon on keys in 2009 and Richard Millsap on drums in 2012. Bassist
Jesse Wilson came on board in 2017.
Despite a few changes in personnel along the way, one thing has
remained constant for the band. “The thing we always set out to do
was to make timeless music, timeless records,” Jurdi says. “Not
what’s fashionable or what’s trendy, but what inspires us.”
“As the band was getting together and going, Gordy and I seemed to
have similar focus in terms of what our ambitions were for making
music and taking it beyond the confines of what we were doing,
presenting it on a bigger level,” Jurdi continues. It’s not just
writing and performing the songs, there are endless choices that go
into establishing the right aesthetic and tone for the presentation of
the entire band, both on stage and in our recordings.”
The Band of Heathens’ first two releases were live recordings and
the funky, soulful, rootsy sounds on those live records would come to
be the band’s hallmark. “People say, ‘What kind of music do you
play,’ and we say, ‘Rock and roll,’” Quist says. “And it’s
always like, ‘Oh, rock?’ ‘No, not rock, rock and roll, with the
roll in it.’ Because the roll implies a groove and a funkiness that
modern rock just does not have. … We’re a rock and roll band.”
Between 2008 and 2016, The Band of Heathens released five studio
albums, four of which went to either number one or number two on the
Americana Radio Albums Chart, and earned a pair of Americana Music
Awards nominations. Then in 2018, they released the acclaimed A
Message from the People Revisited, a recreation of the legendary 1972
Ray Charles album, A Message from the People.
Also in 2018, Quist and a friend purchased The Finishing School, a
studio in Austin where the band had frequently worked, after the
passing of the studio’s owner, their longtime friend and producer,
George Reiff.
“We’re really fortunate to be in a position to have access to a
creative workspace like The Finishing School. It’s allowing us to
take the final step in realizing some greater creative vision. We’ve
laid down about 15 new songs over the past several months, with plans
for some of this material to be included on a full length album in
2020, says Jurdi.
AGE 21+
DOORS 7:00PM
SHOW 8:00PM
ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL AND NON-REFUNDABLE
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