DaShawn Hickman presents Sacred Steel @ Key City Sessions
Schedule
Fri May 10 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
Downtown Wilkesboro | Wilkesboro, NC
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One of the foremost contemporary practitioners of Sacred Steel, a blues-gospel tradition dating back to the Pentecostal-Holiness churches of the 1930s, DaShawn Hickman grew up hearing the pedal steel in the tiny House of God church his family attended in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, and listening to his mother play lap steel in their home. Hickman picked up the instrument at the age of 5. In his teens, he formed a group with three of his cousins that found fame as The Allen Boys, North Carolina’s only touring Sacred Steel band.Now, Hickman puts his own spin on the Sacred Steel tradition with Drums, Roots & Steel, his debut album on Little Village, produced by Charlie Hunter (who also plays bass on the recordings), and featuring the soulful vocals of Hickman’s wife Wendy on several tracks. “We just want to spread love and joy to people,” says Hickman. “That’s our mission, me and my wife both. We love what we do, and we just want to take it out and let other people experience it, and be heard in the right manner.”
IG: @dashawnhickman_steelguitar
Doors at 7:30 PM. Music at 8:00 PM.
Event is free. Suggested donation of $10.
402 E Main St., Wilkesboro, NC 28697
For parking, please use the driveway to the right of the home (not the gravel lot on the left) or any public parking nearby (e.g. Yadkin River Greenway Access or Cub Creek Park).
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Where is it happening?
Downtown Wilkesboro, 100 West Main Street,Wilkesboro,NC,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
