Victor Wainwright & the Train

Name: Victor Wainwright & the Train
Start: 2025-03-21T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 33 East Main Street, Statesboro, GA, United States, Georgia 30458

Schedule

Fri, 21 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

33 East Main Street, Statesboro, GA, United States, Georgia 30458 | Statesboro, GA

Performing Live in the Emma Kelly Theater: Victor Wainwright and the Train!
WAINWRIGHT IS A GRAMMY NOMINATED AWARD WINNING MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER IN THE WORLD'S ROOTS MUSIC SCENE.
Though his career began over a decade ago with genuine rock n’ roll honky-tonk, Wainwright has broadened his artistic scope over the years to include music representing virtually every corner of the roots music world. His insatiable interest in music discovery, sheer love for entertaining and curiosity have led him all around the world, and the resulting perspective is a reflection of his passion for entertaining and creating progressive roots music in an effort to move the art-form forward. Composer, producer, vocalist, and award wining entertainer and piano player; Victor Wainwright is a raucous high-octane, dynamic performer and crowd pleaser with soul to spare.
The name of Victor Wainwright's band - and the sleeve image of their albums - is also the most fitting of metaphors. In music folklore, the train might have associations with the freight-hopping bluesmen of yore, but with this restless boogie-woogie innovator stoking the furnace, Wainwright is a charging locomotive - surging forward, crashing through boundaries of genre, sweeping up fresh sounds and clattering headlong past the doubters.
"I believe that for roots music to grow, and reach out to new audiences, we have to push it forward,” Wainwright explains. The result is original music that walks a tightrope between scholarly respect and anarchic irreverence. You'll hear Wainwright twist boogie-woogie tradition on barrelhouse thrillers driven by his visceral piano style. But you'll also hear him fearlessly explore the gamut of genre, from Latin flavors and New Orleans piano to near-psychedelia. It's a musical cocktail served up by Wainwright's inimitable gravel-flecked vocal.