Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band at Avon Theater with Special Guests Adrian & Meredith

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Three time BMA nominee's The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band are "the greatest front-porch blues band in the world". They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Their ecord Dance Songs For Hard Times went #1 on the Billboard, iTunes and Sirius XM Blues Charts and was produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell. The record was critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Relix, Popmatters, Guitar World, American Songwriter, No Depression, Glide, Wide Open Country, Paste, American Blues Scene and many more!
Their latest record, Honeysuckle was produced and recorded by Reverend Peyton and mixed by eight-time Grammy winner Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White). The record features many special guests, including gospel music group The McCrary Sisters on the song "Manger," Blues Music Hall of Famer and Grammy-nominated harmonica player Billy Branch who plays on the Blind Lemon Jefferson song "Nell (Prison Cell Blues)," Grammy award-winning and IBMA's 10-time Fiddle Player of the Year Michael Cleveland plays on "Freeborn Man" and Colton Crawford from The Dead South plays banjo on "The Good Die Young."
BIO:
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has performed in 38 countries and 48 states. They have been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, Living Blues, Elmore, donned the cover of Vintage Guitar Magazine, have been #1 on the Billboard, iTunes and Sirius XM Blues Charts and have been nominated for three Blues Music Awards by the Blues Foundation in Memphis. The Indianapolis Star listed Reverend Peyton as one of the top 25 Hoosier musicians of all time.
Maybe you found the band because of virtuosic guitar playing? Maybe you came forthe tent revival style live show? The reasons that brought you here could be extensive, but the reasons that keep bringing people back are HEART.
Real, from the heart, music made by people who love music. The Sacramento Bee said, “It’s agroup with boundless stockpiles of heart to spare — it cascades throughout everyslip-n-slide vintage blues/soul ditty they tear through and croon in every show theyplay, and they always leave a little behind. The front porch is the church, the churchis the dance hall and the dance hall is the river bank — your knees will fail you by thetime you figure it all out.”
Often called, "the greatest front-porch blues band in the world" the Big Damn Band isled by Reverend Peyton, who is considered to be the premier finger picker playingtoday. Rev has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and apersuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured hisimagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages toClarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, RobertBelfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Accompanied by Rev’s wife, the washboardvirtuoso, Washboard Breezy Peyton, and kept on time by the deep rhythms of Jacob
“The Snakob” Powell, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will leave you clapping, stomping, and singing along every handmade show across the world.Their new record “Honeysuckle” was produced and recorded by Reverend Peyton and mixed by six time Grammy winner Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White).
The record features many special guests including gospel music group The McCrary Sisters on the song “Manger”, Blues Music Hall of Famer and Grammy nominated harmonica player Billy Branch who plays on the Blind Lemon Jefferson song “Nell(Prison Cell Blues)”, Grammy award winning and IBMA's 10-time Fiddle Player of theYearMichael Cleveland plays on "Freeborn Man" and Colton Crawford from TheDead South plays banjo on "The Good Die Young"
"This record is a bit of a return to my roots, a very personal mix of old and new songsthat shaped me or that I’m currently shaping. It’s the most acoustic record we’ve made in years, vintage microphones, vintage guitars, vintage recording gear, and alot of me and my national guitar. There is a smattering of Big Damn Band thrown into the mix to spice things up, and a short list of legends that I’ve always dreamed of collaborating with", said Reverend Peyton.
special guest: Adrian & Meredith
Adrian and Meredith Band is a Nashville-based Bohemian swing-folk act built around rhythm, movement, and the shared experience of live music. Led by married troubadour duo Adrian and Meredith Krygowski, the band draws from Americana, swing, soul, polka, and global folk traditions, while avoiding rigid genre boundaries.With Adrian and Meredith, you never dance alone. Meredith’s old-time fiddle and percussive dance (often at the same time) invite audiences back into a freer, more visceral experience, while Adrian sings from a deeply human place, relating how much more alike we are than different, grounding the songs in empathy and connection.Anchored by Ben “The Odyssey” Reiff’s inventive, rhythm-driven drumming and John Kveen’s driving upright bass, the band delivers a dynamic and flexible live sound. Syncopation and swinging rhythms, call-and-response vocals, in what Carson City Levitt has described as a “world class performance” from Adrian, Meredith, and longtime saxophonist and guitarist Ken Francis Wenzel create engaging, all-ages entertainment that welcome audiences from many backgrounds.Their music has taken them across Europe, where they have performed for Ukrainian refugees, also in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Germany, using shared songs and movement to create moments of worldly connection and solidarity. In America, they have appeared at the Grand Ole Opry as guests with The War & Treaty, Folk Alliance International, and Performing Art Centers nationwide, where dancing is not only welcome but often inevitable. Their shows thrive on interaction, with the band responding to audience energy and shaping each night in real time. Every show is as unique as they are.