State Theatre Presents: Adam Ezra Group at Portland House of Music - Friday, Apr 11 2025 | Discotech

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...”