JD Wilkes & Dom Flemons' Europe tour moves to March 2022
14-10-2020Grammy Award winner, two-time Emmy nominee, Dom Flemons is originally from Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Vania Kinard and their daughter Cheyanne Love. He has branded the moniker “The American Songster” since his repertoire of music covers over 100 years of early American popular music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, music scholar, historian, and record collector. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. On February 28, 2020, Dom Flemons released his third solo album titled Prospect Hill: The American Songster Omnibus on Omnivore Recordings. The two CD album features three parts: the original Prospect Hill album, the 2015 EP What Got Over, and The Drum Major Instinct which includes twelve previously unissued instrumental tracks.
JD Wilkes is an American musician, visual artist, author, filmmaker and self-proclaimed "southern surrealist". He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist (notably on harmonica and banjo), having recorded with such artists as Merle Haggard, John Carter Cash, Mike Patton, and Hank Williams III. Wilkes is perhaps best known as the founder of the Legendary Shack Shakers, a Southern Gothic rock and blues band formed in the mid 90s. Fans of his work with Legendary Shack Shakers include Stephen King, Robert Plant and former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. Rolling Stone named Wilkes as the “best frontman” at the 2015 Americana Music Association Festival for his performance with the band.
TOURDATES 2022:
10/03: Groningen, NL - Lutherse Kerk
11/03: Brussels, BE - Muziekpublique
12/03: Lessines, BE - CC Rene Magritte
13/03: Utrecht, NL - TivoliVredenburg
14/03: Pelt, BE - Palethe
16/03: Portsmouth, UK - The Wedgewood Rooms
18/03: Chester, UK - St Mary's Creative Church
19/03: Abergavenny, UK - The Chapel
20/03: Bristol, UK - Folk House
22/03: Glasgow, UK - Nice N Sleazy
23/03: Gateshead, UK - Sage 2
24/03: London, UK - Camden Assembly
27/03: Deventer, NL - Burgerweeshuis
Roots-music trio Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band adds a fourth member in Dom Flemons for a high-octane cover of “Shake Your Money Maker.” The musicians convened at Sun Records Studio in Memphis in late 2019 to re-create the Elmore James blues standard, which they had first performed together as a jam at the Blues Music Awards earlier that year: