Kay Miracle and Penny Jo Pullus will be joined by Mike Younger & the Tennessee Treehuggers for a gathering of voices and a little rock n roll.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, MIKE YOUNGER left home at the age of 17 and cut his teeth as a fledgling street performer in Toronto and Vancouver. At the age of 20, he headed to New York City to seek out the 60’s folk renaissance remnants. It was years later, while performing live on WWOZ in New Orleans, that he caught his first break with a music publisher who heard the broadcast. Soon after, Mike traveled to Nashville to record demos, and his recordings reached the ear of Rodney Crowell. When Mike signed his first record deal, Crowell stepped in as producer, and together they turned out Somethin’ In The Air in 1999.
In 2001, Jim Dickinson started producing Mike’s second album, which never saw the light of day, as the record label collapsed before the record was completed. The original Memphis sessions featured rock legends Levon Helm on drums, Spooner Oldham on keyboard and organ, David Hood on bass, Jim Dickinson on piano, and his son Luther Dickinson on electric guitar. The tapes from that session fell into legal limbo and were lost for almost two decades. Now recovered, Burning The Bigtop Down was released August 27th 2021.
After the loss of the Memphis sessions and his record deal, Mike left Tennessee, returning to New York City to assemble a band and subsequently release 2005’s Every Stone You Throw, his first independent effort, which carried some of the songs from the lost record. From 2003-2007, he worked the NYC club scene with his band and as a solo performer. In 2007, he returned to Nashville and began laying the groundwork for 2009’s Hustled By Squares, followed by U.S. touring in the midwest, mid-Atlantic, mid-South, and northeast regions, where his radio supporters and fans encouraged him to keep the hope alive…
During the next few years, he developed a friendship with neighbor and guitar legend Bob Britt (Leon Russell, Delbert McClinton, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan). Bob would end up producing 2016’s Little Folks Like You And Me. Mike jumped back into regional touring to promote his work and to support various environmental causes, including the NODAPL standoff at Standing Rock, the Flint Water Crisis, and his own community, all of which were facing environmental degradation by irresponsible corporate actors and their enablers in public office. Little Folks Like You And Me featured the song “Poisoned Rivers“ which became a rallying cry for local community resistance to unwanted fossil fuel development in Middle Tennessee. The community’s position was strengthened by the 2015 Field Study Of Gas Pipeline Safety In Tennessee, which included Mike’s extensive photo-documentation of corroded and poorly maintained interstate gas pipeline infrastructure and haphazard operating conditions across Tennessee.
In 2017, Mike was able to reclaim the recordings he made in Memphis in 2001 and began the long process of completing the production of Burning The Bigtop Down and cleaning up unresolved issues surrounding the record.
Having developed exceptional skills as a mechanic over the years, Mike was able to spend significant time during the pandemic restoring and building out a school bus conversion to run on recycled fryer oil in preparation for future touring.
With the August 2021 release of Burning The Bigtop Down , Mike Younger’s long journey to recover his lost work has come full circle.
It has been during her tenure in Austin, TX that Penny Jo Pullus has found her musically eclectic and organic ideal, a heady, smoky combination of roots and pop styling’s that now defines her unique and soulful sound. Penny Jo truly is in her element as she charts a musical course squarely between Roseanne Cash and Lucinda Williams but with a hip shake and a nod to the Stones and the Ronettes. Hers is a great big voice, a mighty twang that takes a song, whether she writes it or not, and makes it real – breathtakingly, unmistakable. As William M. Smith writes it in Rockzilla World, “Pullus’s vocal attraction lies in her ability to alternate between hellcat on a tear and the girl next door.”
Sultry or snarling, Penny Jo Pullus is the real deal. “Penny Jo, who blanches at the title “chick singer,” defies pigeon holes. She started off at the age of 18 in a punk rock band called the Natives. Rockin’ Bones, The Muddpuppies and Trailer Trash were soon to follow as alt-country favorites. But lately, what Pullus has been up to has been something more. She has stepped into her own authentic style of playing and singing with her solo project on stages around the southwest. This happens all while simultaneously singing with 70’s Legends and Texas Music Hall of Fame-ers, The Greezy Wheels, Grammy Award winning “New Bohemian,” The John Bush Band, and vox session fave, Penny Jo stands firmly at the helm of the Independent Women’s music community as President and Founder of non – Profit, TeXchromosome, advocates for women in music. PJ is “driving the bus” for their international terrestrial Radio series. Dedicated to showcasing women independent artists.
“Ever since I decided that music is what I wanted to do, it has been about my gut instincts, finding my own way of being me, helping others and surrounding myself with like-minded people,” Penny Jo concludes. And from her brother’s record collection to the clubs of Texas, the East coast, West coast, and Europe. Penny Jo is worth knowing and listening to.
Americana Singer/ Songwriter KAY MIRACLE performs as a soloist and was the founder and lead singer for two original Americana bands “Kay & the Miracle Cure”, a “Folk Roots” group, and the Outlaw Country band the “Ghost Town Ramblers”.
Kay has showcased her original songs at the “ SXSW Women“ TeXchromosome” showcases in Austin TX, as well as “Highway Woman” radio show while touring with “Last Honky Tonk Train” songwriter series. “Kay & the Miracle Cure” released “Buck Naked Demos” which has received national airplay on “WOS Radio”, “LadyLake Productions”, “Song Trader”, “Song Ladder”, and selected for the “Independent Music Awards”. Both “Kay & the Miracle Cure” and “Ghost Town Ramblers” have appeared at the “Native American Stage of Nations” at the Blue Rain Ecofest in Syracuse NY, the “American Roots Historical Songwriter Series”, and various festivals, and TV shows. Kay continues to record her extensive portfolio of music.
DOORS: 6PM SHOWTIME: 7PM
SEATING OPTIONS:
We have 4 options for our ticketed performances:
PREMIUM TABLES FOR TWO
Regular height table for TWO PEOPLE (18 available), the back row tables are bar height (4 available)
IMPORTANT NOTE: 1 ticket = 2 seats. Each Premium Table admits TWO people to the show.
STAGE TABLES FOR TWO
Regular height table for TWO PEOPLE directly in front of the stage (2 available)
IMPORTANT NOTE: 1 ticket = 2 seats. Each Premium Table admits TWO people to the show.
PREMIUM SINGLE at Bar
Single barstool at the bar directly across from the stage (4 available, reserved for single attendees)
General Admission SINGLE
Our general admission area has 13-15 high-top tables with barstools. If you buy a GA ticket, you are guaranteed a stool and table, you may be seated with other GA ticket holders in order to maximize seating.
