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Alexandra Day & Bob Sima together at Baldwin's Station

Thursday, August 4th
ALEXANDRA DAY & BOB SIMA
Tickets $17.00 – Showtime 8:00 pm
            D.C.-born and Maryland-raised Alexandra Day (http//alexandraday.bandcamp.com) has a musical resume that includes a classical voice degree, three years singing in a wedding band, more than a decade of piano lessons, and a continual flirtation with jazz. Her latest CD, Untangle, was released March 7, 2011 and showcases a scaled-down texture, compared to her 2008 full-band disk No Castles No Moats. Much of the album was recorded at home during a summer residency at the downtown loft of Philadelphia music patroness, composer, and pianist Andrea Clearfield. This inspiring location is full of art, instruments, and plants and has been the location of monthly musical salons for the last 8 years. Living alone in such a rich space high above the city streets afforded Day a unique opportunity to reflect, a recurring theme on this record.
       Bob Sima (www.bobsima.com) literally burst onto the singer-songwriter scene after taking a hiatus from his band Stereopool, a highly successful acoustic power trio from the Annapolis, MD area. Stereopool has made a name for themselves in the local and regional scene for their brand of energetic, evocative acoustic power folk music. They shared the stage with NRBQ, Eddie from Ohio, Ari Hest and many local legends and landed a UK distribution deal with Smart Choice Music (Kathleen Edwards, John Prine, Lyle Lovett) and were featured on the Smart Choice Sampler which landed them in Maverick Magazine.  November 2006, Bob released his first solo release entitled Pour It On, produced by David Weber in Bloomington, Indiana (Krista Detor, Carrie Newcomer) and was quickly named “CD OF THE YEAR” by the former Westside Café. Pour It On is an amazing collection of songs captured ‘in the moment’ with a very live feel. “For anyone who wishes Van Morrison were still making rustic acoustic soul records like Tupelo Honey, Bob Sima's new release Pour It On is going to be the find of the year. Brimming with memorable melodies and beautiful mandolin, fiddle and dobro lines, these are timeless songs that sound like they could have been bursting out of back porch radios for the past 40 years. But they don't make you nostalgic so much as they make you look forward to what Sima will do next.” ~ Drew Pearce - Freelance writer - Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

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