David Luning: Songs of John Prine in Occidental

OCA is celebrating musical legend John Prine’s birthday with a special show featuring David Luning!

Special guests will join David, and you’ll also get to enjoy some of David’s original tunes. This show will sell out quickly - get your tickets today!

$25 advance, $30 at the door (if available). No online ticket fees. Discount for OCA members.

About the artist:

With the intuitive sense and emotional depth of a filmmaker, California native David Luning looks deeply into the human condition in his music, exploring its shadowy recesses and its brilliantly lit corners. He spent a few years studying film scoring at the Berklee College of Music, then John Prine’s music changed his life. “Some friends of mine shared John’s music with me… And it was like discovering a whole other way to approach music. It made me realize just how powerful the right lyric can be. The right lyric can create a thousand images and stories in your head and therefore can hit pretty hard emotionally.”

“It was definitely a pivot but I knew then what I wanted to do with my life…” Luning says. “I wanted to be a singer-songwriting artist.” And turns out, he had quite a knack for it. His talent for capturing the failures and triumphs, the joys and sadness of the human heart, have led to his songs being placed on many TV shows from Nashville and Grimm, to Lucifer, and most recently, the full length feature film 57 Seconds, starring Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson.

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In addition to his successes as a songwriter, Luning’s exciting and naturally captivating performances have landed him on stages with artists like the Tedeschi Trucks Band (receiving standing ovations), John Hiatt, Leon Russell, Band of Heathens, Dustbowl Revival, Aubrie Sellers, Elvin Bishop, and Rodney Crowell, among many others. And he’s been enthusiastically received at music events around the globe, such as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Bottlerock Napa, Kate Wolf, Black Swamp Arts, and Ramblin’ Roots in the Netherlands.