98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe, Santa Fe Performance Exchange & SW Roots Music present
The FRED EAGLESMITH Traveling Show Featuring the Fabulous Ginn Sisters

Wednesday, Feb. 1, Santa Fe SOL (formerly Santa Fe Brewing Co.), indoor stage
$19 advance, $25 door, GA. Free for SW Roots Music members (email thirstyearfest@gmail.com at least 3 days in advance to reserve your spot).
Tickets at Lensic Box Office 505-988-1234

Since his first album in 1980, Fred Eaglesmith has chronicled the lives of hard-bitten characters in a fused fabric of rock, country, folk, Americana, blues and bluegrass, fashioning his own distinctive brand of literate, melodic and rocking electro-acoustic music. Along the way he's won a Juno Award, had his music used in films by the likes of Martin Scorsese, topped the Americana and bluegrass charts, done the Letterman thing, and had his songs included in the curriculum at two colleges. His songs have been covered by Toby Keith, The Cowboy Junkies, Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider and many others.

One of nine children raised on a farm in Ontario, Eaglesmith remains genuinely tied to the land and the lives of everyday people. After his family lost its farm, he set out on his own at age 15, hitchhiking and hopping trains across North America and honing his craft as a writer, singer, and entertainer in hobo camps and for crews of fellow forest firefighters before working small clubs and coffeehouses. These days, he travels in a converted school bus and RV that run on gas and used cooking oil, pulling into campgrounds and truckstops for the night. Eaglesmith's 19th disc, 6 Volts, was recorded live in the studio with one mic onto a one-track reel-to-reel recorder. It doesn't get any more real than when you can't overdub, autotune, or fix it in the mix.