Anna Moss and The Nightshades

Schedule

Thu Oct 06 2022 at 09:30 pm to Fri Oct 07 2022 at 12:30 am

Location

Crazy Horse Saloon and Grill | Nevada City, CA

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Anna Moss of Handmade Moments brings her heavy-hitting jazzy dream-pop project The Nightshades back to her adopted hometown of Nevada City.
About this Event

Have you seen Handmade Moments at the Crazy Horse? In fact, have you seen Handmade Moments anywhere? It’s the kind of experience you tell all your friends about and carry with you forever. The duo of Anna Moss and Joel Ludford transmit a completely disarming sense of charisma, musicality and humor which elevates audiences to a state of unfettered bliss and potent unification. They recently cast their spell on massive amphitheater audiences, opening four shows with Jack Johnson! Kicking off our October lineup, the pair return to their longtime home of Nevada City with a project which has already earned acclaim across the country – Anna Moss and The Nightshades.


2022 has been the year of Anna Moss as she wowed audiences up and down the West Coast opening for ALO on their Tour ‘d Amour. Then she was all over the place at High Sierra Music Festival including starring as a member of Lebo & Friends. The Nightshades are led by her timeless, sultry, completely transportive voice and tasteful electric guitar licks and saxophone escapades. Moss transmits a luminescent presence with her unmistakable sincerity and commitment to communicating universal truths.


This quartet carries intentions which far exceed the simple goal of entertainment. The band is a “pandemic baby” by pure definition. Fueled by a dark depression from her passion and livelihood being stripped away, Moss wrote a whole new crop of songs as a form of self-therapy. She labels the sound as “bedroom pop.” Rather than the quirky fun of Handmade Moments, this delves deeper with its emotional impact, taps in to a juicy space and relies more heavily on heart-rendering beats.


Moss elaborates: “Pop has a bad rap but I don’t care. Pop music was jazz in the 30s. It was The Beatles. It was Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It changes over time. We’re talking about a different genre of pop. There are hooks and it’s like folk music except with dreamy sounds and danceable. I want these songs to get stuck in people’s heads.”


Renowned as the jokester of Handmade Moments, there’s an ultra jazz-cat coolness seeing Ludford just laying it down on the bass in this lineup. Then you’ve got the one-of-a-kind style of Fernando Lima on drums which is a defining factor of the Nightshade’s sound. His sparse “rat-a-tat” grooves have a way of pulling you in and making you hunger for whatever comes next. The band welcomes a new keyboardist who will fatten up the sound with even more melodic nectar. The Crazy Horse audience can expect a profound emotional journey which will raise our collective consciousness and reveal how hope can spring forth from the most unlikely of places. Once Moss’s voice hits the airspace, anything beyond that seems to rapidly retreat into the distance. We never do this, but in this case humbly request in advance that you keep conversations to a low roar and let the power of the music fully blossom.



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Where is it happening?

Crazy Horse Saloon and Grill, 230 Commercial St. , Nevada City, United States

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Tickets

USD 25.00

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