Jordan Tice with Josh Plummer

Jordan Tice featuring Patrick M’Gonigle with opener Josh Plummer| Friday, Nov. 21,  8 p.m. | Doors open at 7 p.m.

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Jordan Tice is a musical seeker of the most dedicated sort. Growing up in Annapolis Maryland, as a teenage rocker and student of jazz and music composition at Towson University, he has become among the most innovative acoustic guitarists of the modern age. Surrounded by a family of bluegrass musicians and opening for American music luminaries such as David Bromberg and Tony Rice at an early age, Tice found his musical center, one which he now channels into a refreshing approach to songcraft. Speaking to the components that fuel the progressivism intrinsic to some of his closest heroes, Jordan says, “Artists like John Hartford or Norman Blake chose to look beyond the idiomatic elements of the music and tap into where those things came from. They learned from literal examples, but they were working more off abstractions that they absorbed into their own work, creating something entirely new.”

 Listening to the breadth of Jordan’s discography, which includes seven projects as a solo artist and four as a founding member of the preeminent string band, Hawktail (formerly Haas Kowert Tice), one will hear these sorts of abstractions at play in his own work. Equally virtuosic as a flatpicker and fingerstylist, and with a casual vocal style, Tice conjures ingredients from seemingly far-flung worlds with ease that have earned him glowing press from such outlets as NPR Music and American Songwriter and taken him to stages such as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Ryman Auditorium (among many many others). His performances call upon the repertories of American and British Isles folk, bluegrass, blues and more pop-oriented songs, and though his earlier releases are instrumental in focus, he has been carefully honing his craft as a singer-songwriter in his most recent work. This includes his Motivational Speakeasy (produced by Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids) and Badlettsville, projects which make it easy to confuse his originals for timeworn chestnuts. Having occupied the roles of guitar ace, sideman, songwriter and student of American music for the better part of his life, Jordan’s songs are enriching for all manner of listeners, from guitar fanatics to more casual fans of Americana music; bending form and tradition through his singular approach, he delivers performances that are not weighted by any one area of his prowess, allowing listeners to join his world of candor, wit and ineffable facility with comfort.

Josh Plummer

Josh is a singer/songwriter based out of Tampa. His three EPs, Before You Dig (2020), The Stake (2021), and Wrong Side Of Sunrise (2023), are available anywhere you stream music. He plans to release new music in 2026 with an EP all about the journey to fatherhood.

Josh writes from personal experience reflecting on love, mistakes, the future, loss, and hope in the hard times. His influences include Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Phoebe Bridgers, Dave Matthews, and Ruston Kelly.