Folk To The Power Of Three: Ryan Leddick, Rigby Summer, The Pinkerton Raid

Welcome to Folk To The Power Of Three! Join us for a night of amazing music at MoJo's Cafe and Gallery as all three of these artists make their way to Montreal for FAI (Folk Aliance International).

Get ready to be swept away by the songs and stories of these talented folk artists in a Nashville-style songwriter in the round. It's going to be a cozy, intimate evening filled with soulful tunes and good vibes. Don't miss out on this special event - mark your calendars now!

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Ryan Leddick (Troy, NY)

https://video.kbtc.org/video/ryan-leddick-state-mind-vsy2ru/

“Soulful, Rhythmic, Folk-Rock”

Based in Troy, NY - Ryan Leddick showcases a collage of musical talents that stop people in their tracks. Blending years of experience, Ryan Leddick weaves his soulful and haunting voice alongside rhythmic guitar lines to create an enticing folk-rock fusion.

Growing up in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, Ryan Leddick caught the music bug early in his life. You could even say his talents run very deep in his family. When he graduated High School it continued on into two music degrees in performance; one from SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, NY and the second from The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. It was here in New York’s Capital Region alongside his tours in and around the northeast that Ryan grew and became the musician he is today.

Having shared the stage with many Broadway notables, Damien Rice, Of Good Nature, and Brian Dunne to name a few you would be remiss if you didn’t see him.

Rigby Summer (Sillwater, OK):

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=420804905079205

Rigby Summer weaves an Americana soundscape that reflects the road she’s traveled from her Kansas City jazz upbringing to the beach pop of her former home in southern California to the Red Dirt roots of her longtime home in Stillwater, Oklahoma and the winds of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, where she’s toured extensively over the last five years and now makes her second home.

The result is an ecclectic cosmic Americana sound that often draws comparisons to Brandi Carlile and Lucinda Williams—a little modern, a little old-fashioned, always earnest.

In 2017, after a five-year hiatus from performing music, she founded the Monday @ Modella songwriter pop-up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the ALL MUSIC STARTS LOCAL initiative, both of which have helped her carve a niche for herself in the Oklahoma scene and beyond. The result is a career built on collaboration and community, learning from and edifying her fellow artists along the way.

Her latest of such collaborations is Rigby Summer & The One Night Band, a collective of artists helping her write the next chapter in her artist story. They come together to perform in various forms in markets throughout the region, taking her honest and intimate lyrics and adding an element of joy and fun–creating a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. With the help of the One Night Band (led by music director and producer ) her next album is currently in pre-production while her growing team prepares to launch a podcast in 2025.

When not on the road with her own music and ALL MUSIC STARTS LOCAL, she is growing a new online artist mentorship community called to foster creative and financial abundance among independent musicians and other artistic entrepreneurs.

The Pinkerton Raid (Durham, NC)

Go see a show with The Pinkerton Raid, and songwriter Jesse James DeConto might share history from the Progressive Era labor movement, ancient Greece, Nordic legends, Broadway showtunes, or COVID rent strikes and coin shortages. It’s all quite beatnik and granola, steeped in the mysticism of STAR WARS, the existentialism of Kerouac, the naturalism of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Standing Rock and Laurel Canyon, and the liberation politics of Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. There is a fair number of songs about trees.

Critics hear echoes from Iron & Wine to Bowie. “A fine blend of Beatles-esque dreamy folk,” says AMERICANA HIGHWAYS. “There’s glorious spirit to it. … thoroughly alive and refreshing.” The band has opened for Ballroom Thieves, TopHouse and Noah Gundersen. They’ve slotted at recent festivals like Mile of Music, Soil & Sky and AVLFest with artists such as River Whyless, Carsie Blanton and Tall Heights.

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