YARN

Advance tickets $28.55 total cost. Yarn is a North Carolina based Americana band that formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2006. The group is led by songwriter Blake Christiana on vocals and guitar, a rotating group of electric guitarists including Matteo Joseph Recchio, Joel Timmons, and others, Rick Bugel on bass, and Robert Bonhomme on drums. Almost every live date includes some surprise guests or featured soloists.

By playing up to 170 dates a year, they have earned a reputation as a hard-working live act. "They have landed on the Grammy ballot 4 times, garnered nods from the Americana Music Association, placed top five on both Radio and Records and the AMA album charts, garnered airplay on Sirius FM, iTunes, Pandora, CNN, and CMT, and also accorded the "Download of the Day" from Rolling Stone.[4] Their latest project "Lucky 13" involves releasing new singles, with "A" and "B" side, on the 13th of each month, charging $5 for an entire year's worth of music. They have recorded 11 albums, in addition to a couple of releases under Christiana's name.

Blake Christiana, founding member of Yarn, has the music in him. In fact, you could say that Blake is the music and the music is Blake; that's how deeply he inhabits the songs he writes and plays. You can hear him struggling with his feelings, whether it's on a skittering country shuffle or on a mid-tempo folk ballad or a straight-ahead rocker. His restless search for the chords and lyrics over the past 20 years has produced a plethora of memorable music, and since 2007 he's led Yarn, a band that's evolved from its earliest days as a bar band in New York City to an outstanding roots band that's shared stages with Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, Alison Krauss, and Leftover Salmon, among many others. Yarn got their start by playing a weekly residency at Kenny's Castaways in Greenwich Village in 2007."We played there every Monday night for two years. I was writing like crazy, and we'd try out the songs. It was like rehearsing on stage; every night was different, and sometimes we played in front of five people and sometimes there'd be 100 people there." Over the years, musicians have rotated in and out of Yarn, but drummer Robert Bonhomme and bassist Rick Bugel, along with Christiana, have remained the core of the band.