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David Wax Museum at Loft in April |
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April 7, 2013
The Music Hall just announced the latest additions to its Live at The Loft series – Joshua James, slated for Friday April 5, 2013 at 8pm, and David Wax Museum, playing on Sunday April 7, 2013 at 7pm. Live at The Loft consists of music from top-notch regional and national artists and has something for all tastes, cabaret to traditional—eclectic & electric. (Continued below)
About Joshua James
Raised in hard-bitten Nebraska, Joshua James’ work reflects a distinctly American ache, a yearning for a big sky and an open road. Beckoned westward out of his heartland home by the voices of Jim Morrison and Isaac Brock, he made it as far as the mountains of Utah where, like the settlers before him, he was stopped in his tracks by the arresting beauty. Strangely familiar, yet refreshingly innovative, James’ songs are devastating in their honesty, working with themes that are intermittently elating, melancholic, and transcendent. He doesn’t so much perform these songs, as he does let them possess him, allowing his voice to be throttled from a husky whisper to a full-bodied roar.

About David Wax Museum
David Wax Museum’s (DWM) eclectic sound has deep roots in Mexican and American soil. On several trips south of the border, including a yearlong Harvard fellowship, David Wax has immersed himself in the country’s rich traditional music culture, son mexicano, learning from the form’s living masters. Suz Slezak was homeschooled by her father on a small farm in rural Virginia, and reared on music – old time, Irish, classical, and folk. The two met in 2007 and began blending their unique musical perspectives to form the band. The bonfire of success DWM has kindled with its innovative, grass-roots approach is currently roaring. After years busking at house concerts and touring with The Avett Brothers, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and the Old 97s, DWM picked up the 2010 Boston Music Awards Americana Artist of the Year. With an illustration in The New Yorker, #8 on Paste Magazine’s list of the Best Live Acts of 2011, and a nod from TIME magazine as one of the top ten acts of 2011’s South by Southwest, DWM has become one of the hottest new indie bands around.
To Purchase Tickets
Tickets go on sale to members noon Saturday February 16, 2013 and on sale to the public noon Saturday February 23, 2013. Contact The Music Hall box office at 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by phone at 603-436-2400, or online at www.themusichall.org.
Live at The Loft Series Sponsors
WOKQ, The Shark
Season Sponsor
River House Restaurant
Other Live at The Loft Shows
A Swinging Night In New York
Thursday February 14, 2013 8pm
Tickets: $38
Join us for a night of romance on Valentine’s Day, featuring Bob Lord and his band, the Gaudy Baubles and their marvelous chanteuse, Renee. Escape to Manhattan for the evening with this Metropolitan-themed retro cabaret―great songs and a great vibe.
Evening Sponsors: Best Western, DTC Lawyers, Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC
Chris Trapper
Saturday March 9, 2013 8pm
Tickets: $20
Boston-based artist Chris Trapper began his career as the front man for late-90’s alternative rock band The Push Stars. His lyrically driven roots-pop tells everyday stories filled with extra-ordinary characters.
Howard Fishman Quartet: A Park Slope Bistro on the Seacoast
Friday March 22, 2013 8pm
Tickets: $28
Ever-evolving and increasingly difficult to pin down, Fishman filters a deep passion for New Orleans jazz, Brooklyn soul, open-hearted country, blues and gospel music though a completely original, experimental aesthetic, to create a sound entirely his own.
About The Music Hall
The Music Hall is a performing arts center featuring curated entertainment from around the world in two theaters in its downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire campus - one, a landmark 1878 Victorian theater, the other the intimate Music Hall Loft around the corner, recently named "best performing arts venue" by Yankee Magazine and the recipient of the NH AIA award for design excellence. Acclaimed signature series bring top authors and artists to both stages, while HD broadcasts and independent film fill both screens. A radio show broadcast on NH Public Radio originates here. This dynamic arts center urges patrons to Explore + Learn via master classes, post film panel discussions, and matinees for children. An anchor cultural organization in this historic working seaport, The Music Hall is one of downtown Portsmouth’s biggest employers and largest contributors to the regional economy: The Music Hall and its patrons contribute $7 million annually to the local economy through show and visitor related spending. Innovative in its outlook, the organization is community oriented and committed to making the Seacoast flourish. The Music Hall is 501c3 nonprofit managed by a professional staff with the assistance of a volunteer board. Though global in the scope of its artists and programs, The Music Hall operates independently with the support of 3,000 members, 300 business supporters and 40 community partners. Welcoming more than 100,000 patrons (including 20,000 children) each year from the tri-state area and beyond, The Music Hall is the region’s center for the performing arts, literature and education…easy to get to, impossible to forget. www.themusichall.org