March 13, 2015 at The Upper Bout in Champaign, IL.
Energetic and electrifying clawhammer banjo, bass, percussive dance, storytelling songs both old and new, with nuanced, emotive vocals. An intimate yet robust evening of old-time and blues inspired folk music, hilarious anecdotes, and virtuosic dance performances anchored by Keith’s Body Music and Evie’s step dancing.
“(An) arrestingly fun show…bursting with talent…The crowd clearly loved the energy from the performance, as every song, dance solo, and mid-number banjo breakdown was following by vigorous clapping and hollers.” – Smile Politely
“You don’t often hear words like “traditional,” and “authentic” paired with “innovative” and “unique,” but Evie Ladin & Keith Terry have brought them together brilliantly in the self-titled, debut album of the Evie Ladin Band, and the result is truly a high point in new old-time music.” –FOLKWORKS
“Her rich and smoky voice resembles Natalie Merchant’s, and her songs are as fetching as Nancy Griffith’s…they’re all catchy, with mature lyrics and skilled phrasing.” –OLD-TIME HERALD
The polyrhythmic heat of Evie Ladins clawhammer banjo, resonant voice, real stories and rhythmic dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Celtic Connections, Lincoln Center to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.Known as a driving force behind San Francisco‘sStairwell Sisters, Evies second solo release Evie Ladin Band (2012) debuted at #12 on the Folk-DJ Chart and won the IMA Vox Pop Award for Americana Album of the Year.
Keith Terry is a renowned percussionist/rhythm dancer and the founder of the International Body Music Festival.A pioneer in contemporary Body Music, Keith is the Artistic Director of Crosspulse, producing large-scale intercultural collaborations, educational outreach and more.
“Using any surface for it’s rhythmic possibilities, Terry claps his hands, rubs his palms, finger-pops, stamps his feet, brushes his soles, slaps his butt and belly, pops his cheek, whomps his chest, skips and slides, sings and babbles and coughs, building his music out of a surprisingly varied register of sounds and clever rhythmic variations.” –VILLAGE VOICE
“Ladin’s voice is a revelation. Clear, strong, delicate and emotive all at the same time…her exemplary examples of adult love songs deal with complicated subject matter, yet never lose their swing or get bogged down by maudlin sentimentality. In fact, the music is gorgeous.”–NO DEPRESSION