Paul McDonald & Anna Rose w/Nate Frederick

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Paul McDonald

“Modern Hearts” is a testimony of self-destruction and salvation. Billboard describes it as "a beautiful journey of of artistic and personal growth". An album bursting with anthemic hooks, majestically texted alt-rock, tinges of Southern soul, literate introspection, and profound redemption.

The 14-track body of work that represents a full-spectrum of emotions, from soulful and sorrowful tracks, to invigorating new-life anthems, to meditative mid-tempo numbers. Produced by Jordan Lehning (Rodney Crowell, Andrew Combs), McDonald enlisted an all star cast of musicians including Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges, Ruston Kelly), Todd Lombardo (Nial Horan, Lera Lynn) and Lincoln Parish (Cage the Elephant) to help shape his narrative. Each song, forged of equal parts of the singer/songwriter’s confessionalism & rock and roll irreverence, is brought to life by lifting arrangements and refined vocal delivery.

The troubadour has spent the past decade fronting bands: The Grand Magnolias, Hightide Blues, the Sweetheart Deal, & an americana duo with actress Nikki Reed. Paul’s broadly resonant musicality has garnered him millions of Spotify streams and international acclaim and coverage from the likes of Rolling Stone, Billboard, MTV, and enabled him to tour the world and share the stage with a diverse array of classic and current icons. Select performance highlights include sharing the stage with artists such as Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, The Revivalists, Zac Brown, Hanson, Father John Misty, Emmylou Harris, and appearing at festivals such as Bonnaroo, SXSW, Live On the Green, and Hangout Festival and performing on nationally televised shows like “Good Morning America”, “The Today Show”, “NBC’s Parenthood”, “American Idol”, and “The Tonight Show.”

Anna Rose

Anna Rose is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and guitarist who has been making her mark on the music industry for more than a decade. Raw and unfiltered, Anna puts her passion for music into everything she creates and does so in a myriad of roles – from artist and performer to label head and producer. Anna also collaborates behind the scenes with her father, legendary composer Alan Menken.

With a sound described as “bluesy rock-n-roll” by Paper Magazine, Anna Rose is walking, singing proof that big things most definitely come in small packages. Her song, “Nobody Knows I’m Here” was featured on NBC’s smash hit, This Is Us, and marks a shift in Anna’s career, as she continues to move closer to her roots as a genre-crossing singer/songwriter.

“Nobody Knows I’m Here” was the first single from Anna’s deeply soulful 2019 album, The Light Between. Produced by GRAMMY-nominated Paul Moak, the album features ten original songs that Anna wrote and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. Anna’s soul-baring video for “Broken is Beautiful,” another highlight track from The Light Between, has drawn praise from critics and fans alike. American Songwriter declared that Anna “has built a reputation and following with her soulful vocals and raw sound, both of which provide definitive aspects on ‘Broken is Beautiful.’ Lyricism and female empowerment play a huge role in the song as well."

The Light Between is Anna’s follow-up to her highly acclaimed 2016 EP, Strays In The Cut.

To date, Anna has toured all over the world, sharing stages with a variety of notable artists, including Ron Pope, Marc Cohn, Joan Osborne, John Waite, Howie Day, Tony Lucca, Tyler Hilton and founding member of Live, Ed Kowalczyk. In the U.S., Anna has also played to huge audiences at festivals like CMA Fest and Pilgrimage Festival.

Anna has also played a number of shows with Sofar Sounds and Communion Music, and taken on specialized recording projects with both Leesta Vall Sound Recordings and Daytrotter. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she is proud to be a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus, a collective of more than 60 women who come together to sing protest songs in the spirit of inclusive joy & resistance. Anna is distinctly passionate about giving back, both through music and service work. She often works with Green Chimneys, Daniel’s Music Foundation and MILE (Music Is Love Exchange), and is a devoted volunteer at various animal rescues and homeless shelters around the country.

Nate Frederick

“Somewhere in trying to figure out how to craft a good song, I figured out how not to just write a pile of sad songs,” Nate Fredrick says about his new album, Different Shade of Blue. “It’s not that my situation is different or even better, but I’ve found a different way to perceive my personal circumstances.”

That level of introspection is clear throughout Fredrick’s debut album, 11 tracks recorded at Nashville’s Farmland Studios with producer David Dorn. The collection sounds as familiar as what you might hear on a friend’s back porch, but Fredrick’s lyrics are bound to get stuck in your head as he works through his relationship to both himself and his home—where he’s from as well as Nashville, where he moved in 2015.

A native Missourian, Nate learned to play guitar after his dad brought one home—that he never learned to play—when Nate was 12. But he didn’t start writing songs until a decade later.

“A friend and I were running from the police one night, and I accidentally fell off a cliff,” Nate says. “During the two-year recovery process, I started actually making music instead of just playing music. The first show I ever had, I played with my jaw wired shut.”

His bluesy Americana style is the result of influences such as Guy Clark, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Van Morrison, to name a few. Fredrick wrote more than 100 songs in the two years after he moved to Music City.

“I was lucky enough to be surrounded by people who were willing to grow together,” Fredrick says of the writing process. “It’s a culmination of the best I could give with a bunch of people who are now my best friends.”

The first single from Different Shade of Blue is "Paducah," a love letter of sorts to the process of finding yourself through miles spent on the highway. a

"I traveled back home to Springfield, Missouri, every other weekend during my first few years of living in Nashville, partly for a relationship, and partly from being truly homesick,” Fredrick says. “Paducah, Kentucky was the halfway point and during those long drives, I had the feeling I was leaving something but also heading to something from both directions. Home changed in meaning for me, and I changed a lot as a person, eventually into someone who felt like Nashville was finally home."

“Be the One” offers a Randy Newman-esque look at mutually beneficial relationships that—well, aren’t exactly relationships.

The album’s title track, “Different Shade of Blue,” reminisces on how the grass isn’t quite always greener on the other side. “All Over You Again” offers a bit of wordplay: sometimes you want to be over someone but keep finding yourself all over them again.

“The Dreamer,” an ode of sorts to the songwriting of Kris Kristofferson and Guy Clark, centers around a young man and the unattainable object of his affection.

“Love Someone” offers the idea that every relationship offers something—sometimes a difficult lesson. “A lot of times learning to love someone else is more beneficial than receiving the love that you want at that moment,” Nate says.

“Caroline” is about that girl with a special aura about her, at once approachable and intimidating. “Forget Ever Loving Me” was inspired by unrequited love, or at least a joke about love.

“My sister came home from a date that did not go well,” Nate says. “Clearly a one-sided notion, he continued to text her throughout the night. Later she laughed and said, ‘I wish he would just forget ever loving me.’”

Written in March 2020, “To the Night” contemplates the difficulty of seeing the bright side sometimes, especially when there’s an unknown element. “It’s an anthem to convince yourself that things will ultimately work out how they’re supposed to,” Nate says. “There’s no sense in worrying about things you can’t control.”

“Long Overdue” contemplates how good things come to those who wait.

The affecting “Patches” bookends the album with a look at the lifecycle of people, things, circumstances, and everything between, told through three separate vignettes: an old pair of jeans, a hand-me down car and a long relationship coming to an end.

Different Shade of Blue may be Fredrick’s introduction, but if these 11 songs and the energy they hold are any indication—there’s plenty more to come.

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