Pierce Pettis with Special Guest Danielle Howle in Annapolis

ITZALL Goode Concerts and SHC Music Tribe Present
Pierce Pettis with Special Guest Danielle Howle 49 West
Monday, August 17, 2026
49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar, and Gallery
40westcoffeehouse com
Tickets $20 - Door $25

Tickets will be available soon. If you reserve an advanced ticket, do not call the venue to reserve a seat. Your ticket is your reservation. If you do not want to buy a ticket online, you can make a reservation by calling 410-626-9796

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ABOUT PIERCE: piercepettis.com

After a lifetime of crafting finely-wrought, heart-touching songs, singer-songwriter Pierce Pettis feels that he's finally found his comfort zone. The biggest change, he says, of this point in his career has been getting over myself and realizing this is a job and a craft. And the purpose is not fame and fortune (whatever that is) but simply doing good work. From the time I was very little, I always had the music going in my head, Pettis explains. Like my own personal soundtrack or something. I also come from a fairly musical family: my mother went to music school and was an excellent organist and pianist. And my sisters all played piano and other instruments. In school, I met other kids who wanted to be rock stars, just like me. From the time we were around 10 or so up through high school, we put together various bands -- all of them horrible. His horrible bands didn't deter hi,m though and even though he had a nagging feeling (I thought I was supposed to be a doctor or something.) he persevered, not only playing music but writing songs in a mix of rock, folk, country and R&B genres that landed him an unpaid position as a staff writer for Muscle Shoals Sounds Studios. While there, his track Song at the End of the Movie found its way to Joan Baez's 1979 album Honest Lullaby .

Pettis hit the road and became a member of the Fast Folk movement in New York in the mid-1980s. He released one independent solo album, Moments (1984), before signing with High Street Records, a division of Windham Hill. There, he released three albums: While the Serpent Lies Sleeping (1989), Tinseltown (1991), and Chase the Buffalo (1993). His relationship with Tinseltown producer Mark Heard transcended the album. After Heards' untimely death in 1992, Pettis committed to including a song of Heards on every one of his own albums, a practice that continues to this day.

Pettis was a staff songwriter for PolyGram from 1993-2000, and when his High Street contract ended, Pettis signed to Compass Records, where he has released Making Light of It (1996), Everything Matters (1998), State of Grace (2001), and Great Big World (2004). Pierce Pettis' songs have been recorded by artists including Susan Ashton, Dar Williams, Garth Brooks, and Art Garfunkel. His album, "That Kind of Love" on Compass Records, was released January 27, 2009. In 2013, "New Agrarians Songs & Stories of the Southland" was released, a co-effort by Pierce Pettis, Kate Campbell & Tom Kimmel. Fathers Son, Pettis's newest solo project for Compass Records Group, was released in January of 2019 to widespread critical praise in the US, UK, and Europe. Pettis currently lives in NE Alabama with his dog, Buddy, and his cat, Aretha.

ABOUT DANIELLE:
Website:daniellehowle.com
Video: I Held the Satchel opening for Indigo Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9i9W_cddM

"An extraordinary mind, a southern storyteller with a gorgeous sense of melody that should be pouring out of stereos everywhere" - The New York Times

"Howle captivates audiences with her stunning vocal ability" - Broadwayworld.com

Danielle Howle is a free spirit on a mission: “I want to be your friend, and I want to blow your mind,” she says. On her latest album, Current, the South Carolina songbird accomplishes both with tenderness, charm, and ease. A lifelong artist and natural storyteller, Howle has lived a million lives in one, releasing well over a dozen studio albums in a four-decade career that has traversed genres, styles, and cultures, encompassing everything from country-swamp-blues and jazz to folk, southern rock, indie, and Americana – all while endlessly exploring the depths of the human condition. She’s opened for legends like Bob Dylan and Bonnie Raitt, and was a close friend of the late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith, but Howle doesn’t focus on, nor does she live in the past: Her head and her heart are in the present, as is made abundantly clear throughout her highly anticipated sixteenth studio album, Current (out November 2023 via Kill Rock Stars Nashville).