HalleyAnna & Dustin Welch @ The Redbird - 7:30 pm

HalleyAnna is a Texas singer-songwriter who has been writing and performing since she was 12 years old. She has toured with and opened shows for Todd Snider, Randy Rogers, Hayes Carll, Sisters Morales, Monte Montgomery, Steve Poltz, Robyn Ludwick, Walt Wilkins, Shelley King, and many more of her songwriting heroes. Inspired by Townes Van Zandt and Loretta Lynn, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Emmy Lou Harris, Doug Sahm and Sippie Wallace, and a host of others, she brings a fresh, yet familiar sound to her music. http://www.halleyanna.com/

Raised among the sons and daughters of songwriters, fiddle players, guitarists, banjo dobro piano players, publishers, song pluggers, hippie kids from Gaskin’s Farm, painters, pot throwers, and pot growers, he drank deep. They all drank deep. His 10th birthday presents included a cassette tape of Merle Haggard’s Greatest Hits. As the friends grew up together, they had the distinct advantage of often being able to ask, if they wanted to, how to do things from the very people who were making the records they were listening to. One kid band led to another, with second generation kids like Justin Earle, son of Steve, and Travis Nicholson, son of Gary, and Cary Ann Hearst, the girl kid down the street who grew into an astonishing writer and singer. The moms and dads attended their gigs with the same devotion with which they had come to their Little League ball games.

Inspired by his early exposure to such a vast wealth of revolutionary music, Dustin began devising a unique style of his own. Finger-style, open tuned, Appalachian flavored grooves and melodies coupled with literate lyrics, strange and beautiful, and the songs kept coming. He wrote them by himself, he wrote them with friends, relatives, the friends of relatives….

Nowadays, he plays and tours on his own, with his band, and more than ever before, with his father Kevin. The highlight of Dustin’s active schedule is hosting a weekly songwriting and guitar workshop in San Marcos for Armed Forces veterans. It’s inspiring. It’s a beautiful thing. https://www.dustinwelch.com/dw/