Twangville invites you to join us for the next edition of our Sunday Social backyard concert series in Dallas, TX! The show takes place on Sunday, October 20th. Doors open at 3:30pm and the show starts at 4pm. RSVP for the address and full show details.
We’ve got an incredible line-up of artists who will take the stage together to share stories and songs: Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Bird Streets and Jason Hawk Harris. Scroll down to watch, listen, and learn about the artists.
OLIVIA ELLEN LLOYD (Brooklyn, NY)
West Virginia native Olivia Ellen Lloyd will try anything once. From flight attendant school in Dallas to producing theater in New York and teaching in Guatemala, Lloyd sought adventure but struggled to find a greater sense of purpose – until she found her way back to music.
Her self-funded and independently released debut album Loose Cannon was released in 2021 has been quietly winding its way into the hearts and minds of Country and Americana music lovers all over the world, with over 1 million streams on Apple Music and Spotify. It was followed by a 2022 release of a duo of Hazel Dickens songs that received attention from Bluegrass Today, the Bluegrass Situation, and made Spotify’s GrassRoots and Women of Bluegrass editorial playlists. Lloyd was named a 2023 Newfolk Winner at the legendary Kerrville Folk Festival.
JASON HAWK HARRIS (Austin, TX)
A Houston native, Jason Hawk Harris moved to Los Angeles at 18 to study classical theory and composition before embarking on a stint playing guitar in folky five-piece The Show Ponies. When the band parted ways, Harris released his first solo EP, 2017’s Formaldehyde, Tobacco and Tulips, which helped land him a deal with renowned indie label Bloodshot Records for his widely celebrated 2019 full-length debut, Love & The Dark, which garnered praise everywhere from Rolling Stone to Billboard.
Thin Places, his latest album, draws on Harris’ extensive background in classical music to create a genre-defying work of beauty, pain, and catharsis, one that blurs the lines between roots, country, rockabilly, gospel, soul, and chamber folk as it reckons with forces far beyond our control. The songs here are deeply personal, staring down loss, self-destruction, and recovery with unflinching honesty, and the arrangements are similarly bold and cinematic, conjuring up immersive sonic worlds that can feel at once familiar and unsettling, comforting and eerie.
BIRD STREETS (Brooklyn, NY)
Brooklyn artist John Brodeur conceived Bird Streets as his return to a band format after a lengthy stint as a solo artist. The new point of view proved to be artistically freeing, moving Brodeur to officially adopt the moniker as his nom de guerre with the release of a self-titled 2018 LP. That album, produced by indie-pop hero Jason Falkner, was a refreshing blast of classic-yet-modern melodic rock that received accolades from PopMatters (“a rock solid power-pop gem”) and NPR Music, which named Bird Streets a Slingshot Artist alongside then-emerging talents like Phoebe Bridgers and The Beths.
For Lagoon, his second album under the Bird Streets name, Brodeur widely expanded on the project’s collaborative foundation, enlisting production by Pat Sansone (Wilco) and Michael Lockwood (Fiona Apple), plus guest appearances from Ed Harcourt, Aimee Mann, John Davis (Superdrag), and Big Star’s Jody Stephens.
Special thanks to our sponsors Venturity Financial Partners and to Heineken USA, 1888 Hand Pressed Olive Juice, Kasey Pozzi Real Estate, and Hand Drawn Pressing for their support of the event.
About the author: Mild-mannered corporate executive by day, excitable Twangville denizen by night.