Claudia Schmidt with opener Rebekah Pulley

Claudia Schmidt record release with opener Rebekah Pulley | Saturday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m. | Doors open at 7 p.m.

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CLAUDIA SCHMIDT has spent more than five decades weaving music, poetry, story and laughter into what she cheerfully calls a “hodge-podge.” Armed with a multi-octave voice, a 12-string guitar and an Appalachian mountain dulcimer she plays in her own distinctive way, she performs mostly original songs alongside personal takes on other writers’ work.

Schmidt came up through Detroit coffeehouses and Chicago’s folk clubs before recording five albums for Flying Fish Records beginning in 1979. She became the second artist, and first woman, on Red House Records and was a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion, where Garrison Keillor observed that “when Claudia Schmidt sings a song, it stays sung.” She also won a Jefferson Award for her score for the Goodman Theatre’s production of Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechuan. Over the years she has collaborated with Sally Rogers, John Gorka, Bob Gibson and Bryan Bowers, and her songs have been recorded by Laurie Lewis, Rani Arbo and Jefferson Starship. Now based in Connecticut, she is preparing her 23rd album, FOUND.

Photo courtesy of Claudia Schmidt

OPENING: REBEKAH PULLEY

St. Petersburg singer-songwriter Rebekah Pulley has been a fixture of the Florida music scene since arriving in town with her guitar in 1991. Raised with eight siblings in rural Alaska, Texas and Washington State, she grew up touring the West in the family Winnebago; her father, a rockabilly musician, recorded the original “Hot Rod Lincoln” with Charlie Ryan. Her “soulful folk with a touch of twang” draws on roots-rock, blues, classic country, jazz and gospel, and she has earned nine “Best of the Bay” awards from Creative Loafing for her songwriting, recording and performing. Across seven full-length recordings, solo or with her band the Reluctant Prophets, she has drawn high praise; rock critic Dave Marsh called Back to Boogaloo “one of the most graceful records of the past several years.”

Photo courtesy of Rebekah Pulley