Tour Dates: Jon Stickley Trio Captivates Crowds w/ Rapid-Fire Guitar, Sultry Violin & Drums

Courtesy: Dreamspider Publicity

​ASHEVILLE, NC (Press Release) -- Jon Stickley Trio is excited to embark on tour for a plethora of shows this festival season! They have stops throughout the country including the White Squirrel Festival in North Carolina and Rooster Walk in Martinsville, Virginia this May. They kick off June in Nashville on their way St. Louis and then Colorado’s Front Range. Mid-June brings them back to the Southeast and they finish up the month at ROMP in Owensboro, Kentucky. In July, the Trio simmers in the Carolinas before making appearances at Red Wing Roots in Virginia and North West String Summit in Oregon. Mid-July sees their return to Colorado to the Dolores River Brewery and they close out the month in New Mexico and Texas before making their way back East in August with a notable show at Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage in Washington, DC. See the full list of dates below and stay tuned for more to be announced.
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Jon Stickley Trio is making waves with the independent and fan-funded release of their 2nd album, Lost at Last[October 2015], which was produced by Dave King of The Bad Plus. The originality and sheer energy of this genre-bending ensemble serves as a welcome wake up call for those who experience it. With roots in gypsy jazz, bluegrass, and hip-hop in an “exhilarating all-acoustic swirl” (Acoustic Guitar Magazine), Jon Stickley Trio combinesJon Stickley’s rapid-fire flatpicking guitar with the sultry and wild, yet refined, melodies of Lyndsay Pruett on violin set over the deep groove of Patrick Armitage on drums.

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The New York Times’ Nate Chinen writes “... there’s hardy cohesion among the players — no less on the Gypsy standard ‘Valse de Wasso’ than on ‘Darth Radar’ a turbocharged original with a ska upbeat and a shredding melody.” Premier Guitar Magazine took note of “Darth Radar,” calling it, “a rapid-fire take that moves from a serious ska beat to burning surf-style runs that would make Dick Dale proud.” They caught the attention of NPR’s Heavy Rotation, made an appearance on Nashville’s Music City Roots (where they performed three songs and received three standing ovations from packed audience), as well as recording with NPR’s World Cafe in the Trio’s hometown of Asheville, NC with live studio audience in a sold out show. It has been a whirlwind and the Trio is up for more with a new album they will record this winter.
Jon Stickley Trio On Tour 2016
5/27 Fri - White Squirrel Fest - Brevard, NC
5/28 Sat - Roosterwalk - Martinsville, VA
6/1 Wed - The Basement - Nashville, TN
6/2 Thu - The Bootleg at Atomic Cowboy’s LouGrass Thursday’s - St. Louis, MO
6/4 Sat - Pagosa Folk 'N Bluegrass - Pagosa, CO
6/8 Wed - Hodi's Half Note - Ft. Collins, CO (with Front Country)
6/9 Thu - Cervantes - Denver, CO
6/10 Fri - Lazy Dog - Boulder, CO
6/16 Thu - Pickin’ in the Plaza - Raleigh, NC
6/18 Sat - The Getdown in Pumpkin Town - Marietta, SC
6/24 Fri - ROMP (late night set) - Owensboro, KY
7/6 Wed - Nantahala Brewing Co. - Bryson City, NC
7/7 Thu - Visulite Theatre - Charlotte, NC
7/9 Sat - Red Wing Roots - Mt. Solon, VA
7/12 Tue - NWSS Pre-Party- Nectar’s- Seattle, WA
7/14-16 Thu-Sat - NorthWest String Summit - North Plains, OR
7/20 Wed - Dolores River Brewery - Dolores River, CO
7/21 Thu - Crash Music - Aztec, NM
7/22 Fri - Taos Mesa Brewing - El Prado, NM
7/23 Sat - Private House Concert - Albuquerque, NM
7/28 Thu - Dosey Doe Music Cafe - Conroe, TX
7/29 Fri - Lamberts Downtown - Austin, TX
8/5 Fri - Secret Stages - Birmingham, AL
8/6 Sat - Boyd’s Jig & Reel - Knoxville, TN
8/11 Thu - American Tobacco - Durham, NC
8/12 Fri - Jimmy’s at Red Dogs - Wrightsville Beach, NC
8/13 Sat - Calico Room - Wilmington, NC
8/18 Thu - Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center - Washington, DC
8/21 Sun - The Rowayton Summer Music Festival - Rowayton, CT
8/24 Wed - Empire State Plaza Concert Series - Albany, NY
8/25 Thu - Joe’s Pub - New York, NY
9/24 Sat - Boats & Bluegrass - Winona, MN
9/29 Thu - Private House Concert - Traverse City, MI
9/30 Sat - Crooked Tree Arts - Petosky, MI
10/13-16 Thu-Sun Suwannee Roots Revival - Live Oak, FL
Stay tuned for more TBA!

The Trio has produced two “official” music videos. “Point to Point" recently was awarded three prizes at the 2016 Music Video Asheville including Judges Choice, People’s Choice, and Best Soundtrack. Folk Alley premiered the video for “Rice Dream,” writing “Jon Stickley's guitar harmonics and Lyndsay Pruett's violin harmonics twine seamlessly together, creating an almost otherworldly atmosphere and the end result is a bit unnerving in its intensity.”
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Jon Stickley Trio returned to the setting of where Lost at Last was recorded, Echo Mountain Recording Studios in Asheville, and performed for almost two hours for a live webcast on IAMAVL.com’s “Echo Sessions.” Watch the full show here →  http://bit.ly/Js3_Nov2015_IAMAVLEchoSessions_FullShow.

For forthcoming new about his next release, updates from the road, and tour dates, please visit www.facebook.com/JonStickleyTrio, www.instagram.com/jonstickleytrio, and www.twitter.com/StickleyMusic.