GRAYSON HUGH

FROM BLUES TO BLUEGRASS: A NIGHT OF EXCITING ROOTS MUSIC featuring GRAYSON HUGH & Polly Messer   and CAROLINE DOCTOROW & The Steamrollers THE NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS16 Anawan StreetFall River, Massachusetts (508) 324-1926  THURSDAY APRIL 4, 20138 pm showtimeTickets $20 in advance, $23 at the door 

For tickets, directions & details: http://tickets.ncfta.org/orderticketsarea.asp?p=438&a=1&backurl=default.asp Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter and powerhouse pianist Grayson Hugh has been wowing audiences and gathering loyal fans around the world since he burst on the scene with his 1988 RCA debut album "Blind To Reason".  Known for his global mega-hits ("Talk It Over", "Bring It All Back", "How Bout Us") and his songs in blockbuster movies "Thelma & Louise" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", this blue-eyed soul phenom has brought his high energy live show to concert halls and clubs such as Tipitina's in New Orleans, Harlem's Apollo Theater, The Hammersmith Odeon in London and The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Hugh's second album "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's Top Ten Albums by Billboard Magazine. Grayson's songs have been called "poetry set to music" and his piano playing has been called "a veritable cyclone of soul, drawing its energy from such diverse regions as the swampland funk of Professor Longhair, the testifying soul of Ray Charles, with rhythms of Gospel and Appalachian banjo picking thrown in for good measure." In 2010 Hugh released his long-awaited comeback album "An American Record". In the words of one writer: "Grayson Hugh has been there and back again. His story - our story - has to be heard". Performing with Hugh is his wife singer Polly Messer, a former member of the swing band Eight To The Bar and the New York rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler.

Caroline Doctorow's career boasts ten Folk Americana albums and a reputation for delivering a song with a velveteen voice. Lee Zimmerman of No Depression says "with a rustic back porch stance that finds her akin to Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Judy Collins and Lucinda Williams, she has all the makings of an understated star." Her current release I Carry All I Own" reached #12 on Folk Radio and Caroline received the honor of making both the Top 100 Folk Artist and Top 100 Folk Album list 2012. In 2006 she was nominated by WIVK Knoxville for a HEMI Award in the “Future Female Artist” category and earlier this year she was voted "Best Female Musician" by the readers of Dans Papers 2012. Her voice can be heard on the soundtrack of the feature film "Daniel" directed by Sidney Lumet  and on the soundtrack of the PBS series "Freedom, The History of Us" narrated by Katie Couric. The Long Island History Journal featured her folk song "Big Duck Ramble" in a recent volume.Ms. Doctorow hosts the monthly folk radio show on WPKN Songtrails.  She is the daughter of world renowned author E.L. Doctorow.