DOUBLE THE SOUL – Ally Venable Band & Selwyn Birchwood

Get ready for a night of soul moving blues with a double header featuring the Ally Venable Band and Selwyn Birchwood!

Ally Venable

Texas blues-rock singer/songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire Ally Venable entertains wherever she goes. With her signature glitter dresses and black knee-high boots Venable comes off of the ropes swinging dazzling crowds on tour or throughout the festival circuit. “Venable pulls off a stunner of gritty and/or sultry blues-rock tunes embellished with lots of tasty guitar solos.” – Guitar Player Magazine. A Kilgore Texas native Along with Ally’s own tour domestically and in Europe her band has supported Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd throughout the US as well as Colin James in Canada. She has performed as a featured artist on the Experience Hendrix Show at the ACL Live at Moody Theater in Austin Texas. Fans are anticipating Venable’s upcoming spring 2023 release produced by Grammy award-winning producer Tom Hambridge which includes a duet with the iconic Buddy Guy and a song featuring powerhouse guitarists Joe Bonamassa.

Selwyn Birchwood

​Although award-winning Florida musician Selwyn Birchwood is firmly rooted in the blues tradition the young guitarist lap steel player songwriter and vocalist sets a course for the future of the blues with his visionary original music. His band deploys a singular sound and style all his own that he calls "Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues" an intoxicating mix of deep blues blistering psychedelic-tinged rock booty-shaking funk and sweet Southern soul played and sung with the fire-and-brimstone fervor of a revival tent preacher with a hellhound on his trail. Live Birchwood is a force of nature. Asked what fans can expect when they see him Birchwood replies "My goal is to be sure you cannot listen passively. We're going to make you dance and we're going to make you think." 

Host or Publisher Charles Bender Performing Arts Center