LIVE STREAM: The Travis Book Happy Hour ft Josh Daniel + Mike Ashworth
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 7pm - 9pm
Details
The Travis Book Happy Hour Live!
Live streaming on The GE's Facebook page and on all IAMAVL channels.
- FREE LIVE STREAM
- 7PM SHOW
- DONATIONS ACCEPTED
- VIRTUAL TIP JAR : Paypal.me/TravisBook1
- VIEW LIVE STREAM HERE : facebook.com/greyeagleasheville
The Travis Book Happy Hour is a 90 minute variety show hosted by Travis Book; bassist, songwriter, and vocalist in the Grammy Award winning bluegrass band, The Infamous Stringdusters, streaming live. Born from his desire to bring musicians and friends together for collaboration and conversation, Travis launched the series in the summer of 2020 amidst the uncertainty of the Covid-19 crisis and a country divided.
Unique, spontaneous musical collaboration with friends and contemporaries leads to singular moments of harmony and the occasional musical train-wreck… The Travis Book Happy Hour is his attempt to shine light into the darkest corners of our lives; to dive deep into the nature of our being and emerge bathed in the love, happiness, grace, and gratitude that’s available to us all, and hopefully, to make some beautiful, meaningful music along the way.
Josh Daniel is a North Carolina singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose passion and enthusiasm are evident every time he takes the stage. Daniel describes his sound as “Rock n Roll” but it’s much broader than that… Josh is able to mold his influences in to a unique sound that is entirely his own.
Blending rock n roll with bluegrass, funk and soul music with a reggae backbeat, you never know which way he will lead the crowd. By the tender age of 19 Daniel had a full length CD of original music under his belt and performed hundreds of live shows. Since then he has released a catalog of music with his critically acclaimed band The New Familiars that includes several EPs, a full length CD, a live effort and a 45 single with a wonderful cover of the classic soul song “My Girl”.
Raised on the vinyl of the 1970’s where Soul and Rock n Roll played equal parts, Josh’s repertoire is stunning, and estimates he knows “a couple hundred” songs along with countless original compositions which range from complex bluegrass instrumentals to full blown pop classics.
Josh has performed at many national events (MerleFest, FloydFest, Bristol Rhythm & Roots) and along the way has had the privilege of sharing the stage with some legendary musicians like his friend John Cowan (Doobie Brothers) as well as some monsters of bluegrass (Sam Bush, Ronnie Mccoury, Danny Barnes, Mike Marshall).
Michael Ashworth is a session performer, producer, teacher, and touring artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist, equally adept at guitar, bass, drums, and percussion.
He also teaches and plays banjo, mandolin, keys, dobro, and fiddle. From a musical family, Ashworth “can’t remember a time when music wasn’t a central focus” of his life. An artist that can’t be pigeon-holed, Ashworth’s musical influences run the gamut from John Hartford to John Bonham.
His predominant playing styles include funk, soul, bluegrass, and rock. As a founding member of the funk/rock band Fifth House, Ashworth toured extensively across the Southeast. He has regularly appeared with The Jon Stickley Trio, Jeff Sipe (Col. Bruce Hampton, Aquarium Rescue Unit), Steep Canyon Rangers, Pisgah Pickers, Town Mountain, Leigh Glass, Bill Berg (Flim & the BB’s, Bob Dylan), and Shannon Whitworth. With Whitworth, he recently completed a run of Midwest tour dates opening for the Tedeschi-Trucks band.