If you haven’t connected with Adam Ezra Group yet, these are just a
few examples to help you understand how this underground, Americana
songwriter and his bandmates seem to have popped out of nowhere,
establishing a connection with their fans unlike any other, and are
suddenly selling out theaters throughout the Northeast. Adam Ezra will
joke with you that while the “nowhere” part might be accurate,
nothing has ever just “popped” for this folk musician, activist.
Without resources, connections, or any kind of clue how the music
world works, Ezra began playing shows over 20 years ago. When music
venues wouldn’t hire him, he played bars, bookstores, fields, and
parking lots, often raising money for causes he cared about; a
practice that grew into his nonprofit organization RallySound.
“We’d play 5 hours a night,” Adam reminisces, “more often than
not, in danger of outnumbering the audiences we were playing for...”
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