GRAYSON HUGH

GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER In Concert at Wallingford Public Library, Thursday November 29th, 2018 at 7 - 8 PM. The concert will be in the Community Room of the library, 200 North Main Street, Wallingford CT 06492. The concert is free, and open to the public, brought to you by Friends Of Wallingford Public Library. For directions click this link: https://www.wallingford.lioninc.org          ≠                    ≠                    ≠                    ≠  Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release Blind to Reason (RCA 1988) earned two gold records in Australia and the U.S. and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, classic soul, and rock ‘n roll.   His second record Road to Freedom was called one of 1992's top ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two songs from that record were featured in the film Thelma & Louise in 1991.    In his glowing review of Road To Freedom, Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald columnist and author Leonard Pitts, Jr. wrote: "If you love words, if you’re one of those people for whom heaven is a rainy day and a good book, then know this: Hugh doesn’t write words — he writes pictures." - Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald, October 19, 1992    Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1999 through 2003 and composed several scores for modern dance choreographers Prometheus Dance, Christine Bennett Dance and Rebecca Rice.   In 2010 Grayson released An American Record, co-produced by Polly Messer. His 2015 record Back to the Soul was on the Official Ballot for a 2015 Grammy in the Best Americana Album category.   Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight to the Bar in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and soon after, began singing backup vocals for his band Grayson Hugh & the Wildtones in 1982. After several other ventures, in 2007 she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his record. Polly and Grayson were married in August 2008.   This is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson’s hits from radio and film, as well as previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.