Aubrey Entertainment presents...

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL

with special guest

FREEMAN LEVERETT

Saturday October 14, 2023

@ Hendershot's

Doors open @ 7pm, Show @ 8pm

$16 adv (+tax/fees), $20 day of show & at the door

* **Limited $75 reserved tables for two-persons available

Jake Xerxes Fussell is a singer and guitarist based in Durham, NC. He is, according to Ann Powers of NPR, "maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now..." Fussell’s album Good and Green Again was released to critical acclaim in January of 2022. The album was produced by James Elkington and featured some formidable musicians, including Casey Toll on upright bass, Libby Rodenbough on strings, Joe Westerlund on drums, Joseph Decosimo on fiddle, and others. Bonnie “Prince” Billy contributed additional vocals.

“...Fussell is the rare contemporary to approach folk in its pure form, shunning self-penned compositions about bummer relationships to concentrate on material handed down from bygone, hardened times.” –The New Yorker“

(Fussell) is one of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gemsm with a folklorist’s zeal... his renditions aren’t so much cover versions as composites...”

– The Guardian

Songwriter Freeman Leverett crafts exuberant and dreamy compositions with unforgettable melodies and heartfelt lyrics delivered through timeless vocals shining above an unrelenting rhythmic sound.

Recently featured in the Flagpole Athens Music Highlights of 2023, Freeman has emerged as a uniquely captivating artist whose sincere and hypnotic performances have been transporting audiences and inspiring carefree dancing and loving celebration.

Owing to over a decade of dedicated collaboration in local and international music scenes, Freeman operates "with a quiet authority most other artists don't possess" (Gordon Lamb, Flagpole) and draws on a rich, cosmopolitan tapestry of inspiration.

Jake Xerxes Fussell with Freeman Leverett at Hendershots in Athens, GA!