HuDost with (V)owls @ Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville, FL

Schedule

Thu, 08 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville, FL

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Heartwood Soundstage + Colt Classic Presents:
⚡ HuDost with (V)owls ⚡
🚪 Doors at 6:00PM
🎶 Music at 7:00PM
🤘 Listening Room-Seated
All Ages
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⚡ HuDost ⚡
Spotify: https://shorturl.at/B9J5v
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hudost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_hudost
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Many years before receiving praise from NPR, ranking on the Billboard charts, or winning prestigious awards, something magical happened; a teenaged Moksha Sommer was reading the lush words of the Persian poet Rumi in her Montreal apartment and wildly decided to join friends for a spur of the moment trip to North Carolina for a Rumi Festival put on by Turkish Sufis. It was there that, from across a room of dancers, Jemal Wade Hines was playing frame drum and heard Sommer’s voice cutting through the crowd and jolting his heart awake. That moment was the beginning of HuDost.
Since then, Sommer and Hines have married as a couple, as musicians, as activists, and as parents; in all of those they are guided by love. They are highly engaged activists, doing advocacy work as Representatives for ONE (a non-profit organization working to end extreme poverty) and joining forces with other non-profit organizations. They have discovered the alchemy and power of the combination of music and activism and how change can be effectively created through those tools.
HuDost has a new album that is being released in 2025. Their previous albums have received rave reviews and have reached #4 in the Canadian National Folk/Roots/Blues Chart, #9 in the US Folk Radio Charts, reached #24 in the BILLBOARD SALES CHARTS for Folk/Americana and won an Independent Music Award for Social Action Song. In 2020 they received two of the 'Best of Nashville’ awards. On past albums HuDost has worked with GRAMMY Award-winning producer Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Peter Gabriel) and GRAMMY Award-winning mixers Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Primus) and Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton, Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Beyonce, Beck, Alicia Keys, Melissa Etheridge, Kings of Leon).
HuDost functions as a duo or as a band, including guest musicians of varying sensibilities and backgrounds, and often including dance in their shows. As a duo their instrumentation includes vocals, harmonium (Indian Pump-Organ), live looping and beats, NORD Keys, guitars, Dulcinet, percussion, and a slew of sonic ambient effects. Their music is a rich, eclectic blending of pop and rock with traditional Sufi music, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian and Balkan folk music, Farsi, Turkish, Arabic, and folk. Their sound crosses all borders and barriers, taking the listener on a journey they will never forget.
HuDost's music is a powerful voice for life's journey and discovery. In 2008, Moksha went through a painful process of brain surgery due to a tumor. The healing from this included re-learning language skills, losing and regaining proper sight, and experiencing seizures. This could have been staggering but instead served as learning that has fueled a potent desire to bring healing through sound. In 2013 their amazing son, Kaleb, was brought into the world and their sweet baby Sylvan was born in 2022. It is through music that the losses and gains, pains and triumphs, and excruciating beauty of life can be given a voice of empathy. Both critics and fans have said time and time again that the music of HuDost is this very expression.
⚡ (V)owls ⚡
Website: https://www.vowlslikeowls.com/
Spotify: https://shorturl.at/A9qXN
(V)owls is an Americana band born out of the heart of Gainesville, Florida. They are a group of artists and musicians/songwriters that have come together to share their individual and collective messages through musical performance and creating powerful art.
Founded in 2016, at a local coffee shop’s open mic night as a soulful stringed duo on a small stage, they have now grown to a five piece band including drums, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboard, and hip hop/freestyle. Their shows consist of mostly original music, and are often accompanied by colorful psychedelic backdrops.
Often described as heart music, pulling on the strings of your myocardium, (V)owls' music has evolved to plug into the soul and leave our listeners feeling better than before, with a sense of community and home.
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Heartwood Soundstage, 622 SE 1st St, Gainesville, FL 32601-6768, United States,Gainesville, Florida

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