Jolie Holland with Special Guest Michael Hurley
Saturday night October 18, 2008, Texas-born singer-songwriter Jolie Holland will perform at the historic Capitol Theater located at 206 5th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA. Jolie Holland grew up in Texas, where from a young age she experimented with writing, playing, and singing music. By her teens she had learned piano, guitar, and fiddle, and was working as a traveling musician. San Francisco was home for a time in the mid-’90s before settling in Vancouver, BC and founding the Be Good Tanyas.
Her later solo efforts led to Tom Waits nominating Holland for the esteemed Shortlist music prize. With the haunting, intimate sound of a wizened blues singer, Jolie Holland’s voice seems to come from another age. At 32, the singer often draws comparisons to legends like Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, but Holland’s music – a mix of front-porch folk, traditional country, and jazz — is distinctly her own. This show will coincide with the worldwide release of her new album.
Opening the show is the world-renown “freak-folk” balladeer Michael Hurley who, in his 43-year music career, has recorded 22 albums and earned the praise of numerous artists including Lucinda Williams, Jay Farrar, Calexico, and Cat Power. It has been said that to go to a Michael Hurley concert is to enter another kind of universe where time moves a little more slowly, and narratives develop at their own pace, but they develop very fully. All proceeds from this show will be donated to the Olympia Film Society and the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America, which funds community-based projects in impoverished communities in El Salvador.
General admission tickets are $20 and are available @ www.buyolympia.com and at Rainy Day Records, located at 301 5th Ave., Olympia. For ticket information call (360) 357-4755.