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Our next show will be at the Museum of Commerce located in Historic Pensacola on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. and the show starts promptly at 6:00 p.m. Our featured artists are Patchouli, Bill and Kate Isles, Scott Cossu, and Pierce Pettis.
Tickets are $10 per person and may be purchased online in advance until 2:00 p.m. on the day of the show. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase and you simply check-in at the door under your name. Tickets may also be purchased at the door if seats are available. Seating is first-come first-served.
Pierce Pettis, adored by both critics and public alike, is one of this generation's most masterful songwriters. His music is distinguished by his uncanny ability to capture universals in human experience by drawing on the humor and trials in daily life. Beautiful melodies, strong guitar work, and Pierce's rich vocals are a constant throughout his body of work.
Pettis has performed in 49 of 50 states as well as in Canada and Europe, appeared on Public Radio's Mountain Stage, been featured on NPR's E-town, Morning Edition and World Cafe and has been featured on VH-1, CBS News, and the Nashville Network.
During his long career Pettis has been a writer and artist at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama and a staff songwriter for Polygram - Universal Music in Nashville. Artists who have recorded his songs range from Garth Brooks, Art Garfunkel, and Dion to Clair Lynch, Tim O’Brien, and Joan Baez.
Olympia, WA based pianist, composer, recording artist, radio host, and film composer, Scott Cossu has been performing worldwide since 1980. He was one of the first artists to join the legendary Windham Hill Record Label started by Will Ackerman. Cossu received stellar reviews for his 10 chart topping albums, and toured with label mates such as Michael Hedges, Alex De Grassi, and George Winston.
Scott was the receipient of the NAMA Music Award for Best New Age performer. He was awarded the Achievement in Music Award from his alma mater, Ohio University. Scott was thrilled to learn that Hal Leonard Publishers, produced a solo piano songbook which included Scott’s composition, Purple Mountain, alongside compositions by John Lennon, Beethoven, and Duke Ellington.
Patchouli is master guitarist Bruce Hecksel and performing songwriter, Julie Patchouli. The duo is a folk festival headliner and Public Radio favorite with pure, haunting lead vocals and beautiful harmonies. Their sound, depth, and virtuosity is described as “Simon and Garfunkel meets the Gipsy Kings.”
A new Patchouli album is in the works and may be out by end of the year. The duo is touring hard this spring throughout the US and with a couple of weeks in Europe scheduled for May. Their summer tour takes them all over the Midwestern & Eastern states for festivals and outdoor concerts. Patchouli will also present the new animated concert experience, The Landscape of Guitar in several theatres nationwide.
Bill & Kate Isles are an acoustic performing songwriter duo based in Duluth, Minnesota. Using a wide variety of musical styles, their performances carry audiences through a broad landscape of experiences from metaphorical worlds to small town family stories and to zany comedy. Consummate performers, they are known for their catchy melodies and memorable songs. They have a deep-seated love for the audience, and each other, and it shines before, during, and after the performance.
Bill Isles (born and raised in Duluth) performed his first show of original songs, after a twenty-five year hiatus. Kate Isles (raised in Rochester, MN) came to the CD release concert for Bill's Weightless album after hearing a public radio interview. She bought the CD and signed up on his e-mail list. They were married and performing together a few years later.