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The Avett BrothersDate: Saturday, July 11, 2009Time: 8:00pmDoors Open: 7:00pmRoanoke Performing Arts Theater - Roanoke , VA Tickets/Reservations Tickets: $25 plus fees OR Call 540 853-LIVE (5483)  Hear Tad Dickens' podcast with a member of the band Thanks to relentless touring, a ferocious performance ethic and some flat-out kickass songs, the Avett Brothers have recently exploded onto the Americana scene. The young, mostly acoustic trio from Concord, North Carolina plays Appalachian-style string band music with punk-rock abandon. If there was ever a band to make jaded rock 'n' rollers fall in love with acoustic music, it's the Avetts. Their sound spans styles and eras but always retains a disarming sense of honesty, passion and joy. “If the Ramones were reincarnated as folkies, they might sound like the Avett Brothers ” San Francisco Weekly The Avett BrothersMore The songs are honest: just chords with real voices singing real melodies. But, the heart and the energy with which they are sung, is really why people are talking, and why so many sing along. What you are hearing is the love for a music. It is the unbridled outcry of support for a song that sings to the heart, that dances with the soul. The jubilation is in the theaters, the bars, the music clubs, the festivals. The love is for a band. They are a reality in a world of entertainment built with smoke and mirrors, and when they play, the common man can break the mirrors and blow the smoke away, so that all that's left behind is the unwavering beauty of the songs. That's the commotion, that's the celebration, and wherever The Avett Brothers are tonight, that's what you'll find. |