Three great acts on the Opening Bell stage!
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JUSTIN PICKARD is a singer and songwriter from Dallas, TX. Heavily influenced by rock, country and folk, his music is an irresistible blend of the finest Southern grit and soul, though it maintains an unmistakable universal appeal. His debut album, 2014's "A High Price for the Low Life" received high critical praise for its melodic sophistication, and was named one of the years best album's by the Dallas Observer, a publication which also named "High Price" as one of the year's top 5 country albums.
ORDINARY ELEPHANT are “firmly situated in a time-honored folk/bluegrass milieu. Their songs sound new and old at the same time,” says Stephen Carradini of Independent Clauses. Listening to ordinary elephant, you will hear thoughtful melodies, comfortable arrangements, understated banjo, and honest songwriting performed with purpose; all entwined with delicate vocal harmonies, “…like their voices were made to go together and we’d all feel deprived if for some reason they chose not to sing together,” says Bill Aspinwall of Texas Music Journal.
In 2014 the husband and wife duo shed most of their material possessions to become full-time nomads, and are now traveling the country, continuing to hone their songwriting, and making plans for a second album in 2016.
ANDREW DELANEY is a touring Americana/folk singer-songwriter out of Dallas, TX. His most recent album, "Stricken, Smitten, & Afflicted," features the Roots Music Report #1 single, "There's A Light On." A classic storyteller who depicts the American landscape with cinematic style, Delaney has been dubbed “The Alfred Hitchcock of singer/songwriters" by Rich Warren of WFMT radio, Chicago. Delaney has toured throughout the Southeast and up the east coast, been featured on radio stations nationally, has opened for Hayes Carll, Junior Brown, and Corb Lund, and worked with Grammy winning producer Steve Christensen. Andrew was also a Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition Finalist in 2015, 2013, & 2010, a Songwriter Serenade Finalist in 2015, and Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference Official Showcase Artist in 2015 & 2010.
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