BetterDucks w Red Means Run

Name: BetterDucks w Red Means Run
Start: 2025-03-29T21:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-30T00:00:00-04:00
Location: Dawson Street Pub

Schedule

Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 pm to Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 at 12:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Dawson Street Pub | Bala Cynwyd, PA

BetterDucks is an alternative rock group led by German-born vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Dirk Externest. He is joined by musicians and backing vocalists from the Philadelphia area, including Nick Voutsakis on lead guitar, Charlie Breuninger on bass, Dave Faunce on keyboards, and Jamie Evans on drums. The band prides itself on its diverse collection of compositions and arrangements, drawing inspiration from various artists such as REM, Wilco, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, Allman Brothers, and Joe Jackson. BetterDucks has shared stages with some of their favorite Philadelphia-based performers, including Tommy Conwell, Richard Bush and The Peace Creeps, Ben Arnold, Kenn Kweder, Cliff Hillis, and Christine Havrilla.
Red Means Run is a rock n roll band from Philadelphia, PA.
Formed in 2012 and lifting their name from Neil Young’s “Powderfinger”, the band was propelled by the songwriting of singer/guitarist, Ryan Wells, and recorded their first EP, “All Things Said And Done” the following year. Those early songs walked the crooked line between country and rock and painted vivid snapshots of people struggling through the enduring themes of love, loss, heartache and redemption. Red Means Run’s guitar-fueled live shows earned them comparisons in sound to early-Wilco, Whiskeytown and The Bottlerockets.
The band went back into the studio in 2015 to record the follow up EP, “Love of Blindness”. A collection of 5 songs that barnstorm their way across the country rock spectrum and lyrically mine the intersection between the things people hang on to and what they choose to let go.
Red Means Run spent the next few years playing shows up and down the east coast of the US booking themselves on stages large and small in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
In late 2022, Wells began working with producer Derek Chafin (BarnSound and a|i|r records) fleshing out arrangements around a group of songs that became the band's first full length LP, “Things You Hold True”. With melodic hooks and poignant lyrics, these songs explore enduring beliefs, relationships and the ties that bind us all. A departure in sound from the first two EPs, the new record veers more towards the rock n roll side of the band's persona and draws a straight line from Wells' alt-country roots to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Replacements.
“Things You Hold True” was released in 2024.