Joe Newberry plus special guest Matthew Sabatella at Penny Lane Music Emporium

Name: Joe Newberry plus special guest Matthew Sabatella at Penny Lane Music Emporium
Start: 2025-12-04T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-04T21:30:00-05:00
Location: PENNY LANE EMPORIUM

Schedule

Thu Dec 04 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

PENNY LANE EMPORIUM | Fort Lauderdale, FL

Joe Newberry is also offering a guitar workshop at 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit https://pennylaneemporium.com/event/joe-newberry-live-in-concert-december-4/
Known around the world for his clawhammer banjo playing, Joe Newberry is also a powerful guitarist, singer and songwriter. The Gibson Brothers’ version of his song “Singing As We Rise,” featuring guest vocalist Ricky Skaggs, won an IBMA “Gospel Recorded Performance” Award. With Eric Gibson, he shared the IBMA “Song of the Year” Award for “They Called It Music.”
A longtime and frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion, he was a featured singer on the Transatlantic Sessions 2016 tour of the U.K. with fiddler Aly Bain and Dobro master Jerry Douglas, and at the Transatlantic Session’s debut at Merlefest in 2017. In addition to performing solo, he plays in a duo with mandolin icon Mike Compton, and also performs with the dynamic fiddler and step-dancer April Verch.
With vocals, guitar, banjo, and mountain dulcimer, Matthew Sabatella connects people with music that is woven into the fabric of the United States. For more than two decades, he has followed the threads of traditional folk song, revealing a tapestry of music created by American colonists, pioneers, sailors, lumberjacks, immigrants, ’49ers, farmers, mountaineers, slaves, soldiers, cowboys, railroaders, factory workers, and activists.
In his solo performances, Sabatella tells his own story of discovery while digging deep into his repertoire of folk, bluegrass, old-time country, fiddle tunes, Appalachian music, ragtime, blues, spirituals, railroad and cowboy songs, work songs, sea shanties, Old World ballads, and more.