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Join us for one spectacular evening of music featuring singer-songwriters Sara Cox and Rod Picott - LIVE in concert
Sara Cox
Cape Porpoise, Maine-based singer-songwriter Sara Cox spent her childhood in Nashville, TN. She wrote her first song on a ukulele at age 9 and the lyrics and songs on her albums reflect her southern roots and the hours spent listening to records on repeat, singing harmonies in headphones.
Sara was raised by musicians in a household where three-part harmony was a part of the usual after-dinner entertainment. She began singing and songwriting professionally in her early 20s and launched her solo career in 2000 with her first release, an EP called Firewater. Her debut full length solo album Arrive drew attention that led to her being named “One to Watch” by the syndicated public radio show Acoustic Cafe in association with the USA Songwriting Competition, as well as a stellar review by the folk/alt-country bible No Depression Magazine. Her 2008 album Crowded is the New Lonely was released to wide acclaim and charted on national Americana radio stations.
Cox has shared the stage with Ray LaMontagne, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, John Hiatt, Suzanne Vega, Stacey Earle, Joe Ely, Richard Buckner and Lori McKenna.
She took a long detour from her time spent as a professional musician to raise her three children and build a successful career as a nurse. Like many, Cox spent the pandemic writing and playing new music, and returned to the recording studio this year. Her new album, which she made with her partner and mandolin player, Paul Lachance, will be released this fall. A true family project, her daughter Lila Schrock adds harmonies, keys and guitar to the new album.
Cox’s new single, Draw the Line, has been released ahead of her upcoming album, titled A Collection of Days. The song was immediately named Maine Song of the Week by the Portland Press Herald and is already getting play time on Portland radio station WCLZ, signaling a warm welcome back to the music scene from her fans. Sara will be playing a select number of shows to celebrate her return to recording.
She was the only artist to be featured on all 9 volumes of the Maine music compilation Greetings from Area Code 207 as well as Paste Magazine’s 2004 CD Paste Sampler 8. She remains a fan favorite on Portland local radio station WCLZ.
Rod Picott
Over twenty-three years, thirteen albums, three published books and thousands of shows Rod Picott has worked; powered by the fuel of the blue-collar world he was born into. Through white knuckled determination Picott has been fortunate to open for Alison Krauss and Union Station, play the Shrewsbury Folk festival, appear several times on the BBC2 Bob Harris sessions, play the Maverick Festival and receive the “Song of the Year” award for his co-write (w/Slaid Cleaves) “Broke Down” at the Austin Music Awards.
Picott’s latest album, tentatively titled Starlight Tour, was produced by musician and filmmaker Neilson Hubbard (John Prine, Lucinda Williams). Starlight Tour features some of Picott’s sharpest writing to date. There is darkness roiling through the collection, but also hope and grace. Picott is a writer who mines the invisible, working-class men and women of the world he comes from and does this with the grace and dignity only someone who knows the splinters of that life firsthand can conjure.
“Songs like Raymond Carver short stories” – Houston Chronicle
“Great writing is all about story, and Rod is so damn good at story” – Mary Gauthier
www.rodpicott.com
Sara Cox
Rod Picott