Friday Concert Live from the Acoustic Getaway
Friday night at The Folk Project Acoustic Getaway!
Featured Performers:
Toby Walker
Toby Walker is an award-winning guitarist, a passionate blues singer, and a phenomenal entertainer, whose slick licks, powerful vocals, smooth banter, and exciting stagecraft was sourced in studies with traditional blues and folk musicians such as Eugene Powell, James “Son” Thomas, and Etta Baker, and projects into the limits of what one person can do in the spotlight with one instrumet. Toby tours the US, United Kingdom, and Europe, earned first place at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, and has been inducted into the NY Blues Hall Of Fame. He’s taught at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch, andbThe Swanannoa Gathering, and, according to Jorma Kaukonen of The Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, “Flat out… you have to hear this great musician… I’m blown away.”
Flamy Grant
Award-winning and Billboard-charting artist Flamy Grant is a shame-slaying, hip-swaying, singing-songwriting drag queen from western North Carolina. Her 2022 debut record, Bible Belt Baby, reached the number one spot on the iTunes Christian Charts and was nominated for Best Pop Album at the San Diego Music Awards. She is a winner of the 2023 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition and a 2023 QueerX Award nominee for Best Drag Artist.
A powerhouse vocalist, intrepid songwriter, and irreverent comedy queen, Flamy drags you into a therapeutic, theatrical mix of storytelling and song. Armed with a bold lip and a blistering voice, Flamy is brilliant, resilient proof that nothing is sacred, but everything is holy, and shame belongs in the closet.
Jenny Glenn & Friends
Getaway always kicks off Friday night with a special guest from among the many talented Folk Project members and Getaway favorites. This time it’s Jenny Glenn & Friends. Jenny specializes in a lively variety of roots, bluegrass and swingy blues. She’s got a great voice and absolutely captures the style and energy we’ve come to love in all her performances. Fiddle and bass round out her top-flight presentation of this heartfelt heartland music.