Holiday concert: Allison Strong, with Sam Plourd

Name: Holiday concert: Allison Strong, with Sam Plourd
Start: 2024-12-13T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Message for address, Bristol, CT, United States, Connecticut 06010

Schedule

Fri Dec 13 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Message for address, Bristol, CT, United States, Connecticut 06010 | Bristol, CT

HOLIDAY POTLUCK AND CONCERT
6 pm: Doors open, holiday potluck
7:15: Sam Plourd
8 pm: Allison Strong
From $25 per person
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ALLISON STRONG comes from a long line of storytellers.
Her great-grandfather, Rubén, was a poet for the national Colombian periodical El Colombiano.
Her grandparents, Soledad and Carlos, performed Latin folk songs and poetry to a captive audience at the dinner table.
At age three, Allison was given a dollar store microphone that echoed and she began to sing. She has never looked back.
Allison can be seen starring alongside Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in the Netflix original feature The Week Of and in the hit Netflix Animated Musical Feature, Leo, alongside Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider and Jo Koy.
Allison released her second record, Brontë, in June 2023. Since then, she has opened for Grammy & Latin Grammy Winners Jesse & Joy and LeAnn Rimes. She is currently recording her third album.
In 2014, Strong she released her bilingual debut album March Toward The Sun and was featured in Diego Luna’s Fusion Network documentary seriesBack Home, filmed in her family’s native Colombia.
Among other acting credits, Strong recurred as Talia Goldstein in season two of the Emmy-winning Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and stars in the independent feature Either Side of Midnight, directed by Roger Spottiswoode. An accomplished bilingual voice over artist with a home booth, Allison has proudly voiced various commercials and audiobooks in English and Spanish. Hailed as “captivating” by Ben Brantley of the New York Times, Strong’s theatre aspirations began at age 9 when she became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Children’s chorus and appeared in productions of Carmen and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As a teenager, Strong made her Broadway debut as an ensemble cast member of Bye Bye Birdie. She has since gone on to perform in the Broadway cast of Mamma Mia, while simultaneously completing her studies as a musical theater major and honors student at Montclair State University.
Strong is a 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Music Composition Fellow, a recipient of the Garden State Film Festival Rising Star Award and the Images/Imágenes Performing Arts Award from Rutgers University. She is also an alumna of the prestigious Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Project and ASCAP’s Pop Songwriter’s Project. She celebrates her Colombian heritage and was born and raised in New Jersey. A former pastry arts student, Strong loves baking pies and experimenting with sourdough. She is also a paddleboarder and indoor rock climber.
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SAM PLOURD is an original singer-songwriter from Bristol, Connecticut.
Loving everything music, Sam writes, sings, records, plays guitar and piano, and goes to school to learn the art of sound recording.
She blends various genre influences into indie pop roots. With unique vocals and expressive lyricism, she creates a vibe that is completely her own.
Sam’s biggest influences include Amy Winehouse, Fleetwood Mac, Julia Jacklin, Jordana, Lana Del Rey, and Mitski. The things that inspire her writing and aesthetic the most are nature and the beauty of humanity.
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Acousticool house concerts are private, by-invitation events at a residential home and all money paid is a donation to the artists