Chris Acker & the Growing Boys w/ Creekbed Carter Hogan

New Orleans based artists, Chris Acker, will be hitting the Chaseholm stage this summer. In the tradition of Guthrie and Prine, Chris lends a quavering voice to the half-rotten romance of the unremarkable and unrefined. They’ll be joined that evening by trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan for whom everything good is made from the rotten stump of something else.

Westerly Canteen will be serving up their delicious food, so bring a blanket/chairs and make an evening out of it!

Kids under 14 are free. Dogs are best left at home but we know that can be hard so if you must bring your pup make sure they are leashed. 

More about the musicians:

In a genre full of tall tales and marketable lies, New Orleans’ Chris Acker crafts candid songs – weaving his wit and woes into a body of work that exposes the stale plight of the American Songster to the honest, and sometimes hilarious, light of day.

In the tradition of Guthrie and Prine, Chris lends a quavering voice to the half-rotten romance of the unremarkable and unrefined. Regardless if you’re sitting by a backyard fire on a muggy Louisiana night or standing stage-side in some far flung town, when you hear Chris Acker playing, you’re hearing the end result of countless hours of observing the masters of the craft…and the end result of repeating their mistakes.

The music of Creekbed Carter Hogan (he/they) is a quiet act of defiance made at the end of your rope. It is the warm feeling of solidarity coursing through your body as you link arms with strangers. It is a hard-won laugh, brittle but brave, in the face of what hurt you the most. It is finding hope where there is none, asking questions when you’re told to stay quiet, demanding a future you believe in, and facing a world hellbent on destruction with community, enthusiasm, and joy.