Find your way to the new intimate performance space ARTS NEST every Saturday for an entertaining evening of original music. Our Winter Concert Series features the incredible talents of singer-songwriters in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere where the music can really reach you. Come out and find out what we mean.

Joe Crookston - November 17, 2024, 4pm

Doors open 3:30, music at 4pm.

Joe Crookston is an American folk singer from Randolph, Ohio. As of February 2023, he has released four albums and one EP (Chapter) on the Milagrito Records label:

• 2004's "Fall Down as the Rain"
• 2008's "Able Baker Charlie & Dog"
• 2011's "Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee"
• 2014's "Georgia I'm Here"
• 2023's "NINE BECOMES ONE chapter 9 [start brave]" (February 19, 2023)

$20 per person - BUY NOW via My River Tickets coming soon

Joe is a force of nature on stage. He is in his power AND he communes with his audience and welcomes them into the magic.

From touring with Gordon Lightfoot, headlining major US festivals, receiving Folk Alliance International "Album of the Year," releasing NINE BECOMES ONE (2023) to being named Folk Alliance International Artist-in- Resident, Joe is on fire. He's played with Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, David Francey, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, Judy Collins and 100's more. His songs are are being made into award winning films. Watch this trailer for Brooklyn in July.

He'll surprise you. He awakens the cynics. He's plumbing for lyrical gold.

His rhythm is infectious. In concert, he is funny as hell one moment and transcendent the next.

HE BELIEVES IN STORIES

Come to a show. Visual, artful and surprising. Brooklyn in July, Oklahoma towns, rattlesnake tails, turbary thieves, meter maids and drunk roosters. At the end of the night, you'll leave inspired. "The Long Note" is a phrase in Irish culture. "The Long Note" is that place of resonance and transcendence where the music, the voices, the instruments, and the community ALL come together and unite.

THERE IS A LONG NOTE & JOE IS REACHING FOR IT

Whether he's weaving through lap slide songs or fiddling an American Southern tune, he'll draw you in. It happens every time. Watch a YouTube video...it's fine, but it’s not the same. You gotta come to a show. With unwavering courage to be himself, he is literate, poignant and funny as hell.

He lives in Ithaca NY, and tours regularly in the US, Ireland and Canada.

Best quote~ "I hate folk music, but I absolutely LOVE Joe Crookston's music.!"