Jolie Holland will come to Stuart's Opera House tomorrow to share her folk-, blues- and jazz-infused music with the Athens area.
Holland, who recently released her fourth album The Living and the Dead
has performed in both Athens and Nelsonville before, but never in Stuart's Opera House.
She was coming back to the area and the agent asked if we had a date available and we did so we decided to have her come back and play in the theater which I think is the most appropriate place to see Jolie Holland with her voice
Stuart's executive director Tim Peacock said.
Peacock said that her voice, which speaks to another era, is a good fit for the 130-year-old theater.
Her music and her songs are very original and good. She sings in a style that may sound old-timish
but it still has a very quirky original sound
Peacock said. I think patrons of Stuart's Opera House seem to be very interested in original artists.
Matt Bauer, a Kentucky native, will open for Holland.
He is a singer-songwriter kind of in the folk music tradition but with some definite dark-sided twists in his songs
Peacock said.
The concert, which will begin at 8 p.m. and run until about 10:30 p.m., is also an opportunity for students at Ohio University to experience something outside of Court Street.
There are always those students who want to get off campus and away from uptown and experience new things
Peacock said. They can avoid the pre-madness (of Homecoming) and come to see the show
and then
since we will be out of here by 10:30
they can always go back and enjoy the madness.
