Wild Ponies at Hey Nonny

Schedule

Wed Oct 12 2022 at 07:30 pm

Location

HeyNonnyAH | Arlington Heights, IL

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022
DOORS: 6:30PM
SHOW: 7:30PM
Although they're based in Nashville, Wild Ponies have always looked to Southwest Virginia —where bandmates Doug and Telisha Williams were both born and raised — for inspiration. There, in mountain towns like Galax, old-time American music continues to thrive, supported by a community of fiddlers, flat-pickers, and fans.
Wild Ponies proudly dive into their old-school influences with songs like "Pretty Bird" — a rendition of the Hazel Dickens original — and the traditional mountain song "Sally Anne." "My grandfather used to say, 'It oughta been the goddamn National Anthem!'" Doug says of the latter song, which kicks off the album with gang vocals and fiddle. Even so, don't mistake Galax for a
traditionally minded folk album. Wild Ponies offer up plenty of contemporary material, too, building a bridge between past and present. The lyrics reflect a similar mix of old and new, with
Doug and Telisha Williams writing songs inspired by family heirlooms (including a wooden- bound, 70 year-old book of poems written by Doug's grandfather, whose lines form the basis of "Here With Me"), the Catawba tree on the farm, the nostalgic pull of one's birthplace, a mother's lough, leaving and believing, and the cyclical natures of death and love. Although named
after the town in which it was recorded, Galax looks far beyond the southwestern tip of Virginia for its source material.
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HeyNonnyAH, 10 S. Vail Ave.,Arlington Heights,IL,United States

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