From our friends at the ToL Coffee House:
Jonathan Bryd has been one of the most the most dynamic performers we've drawn for the ToL Coffeehouse series. He writes with intense emotion, keen observation and a wry sense of humor. The musical range is astounding — from the "dark cowboy fairy tale" that is "May the River Run Dry" to the philosophicating whackiness of "Jimmy Says." And if you're really, really lucky you might hear his cover of Rob Vaarmeyer's song, "A Big Truck Brought It."
Jonathan Byrd is a preacher’s kid, Gulf War veteran, and award-winning songwriter with a near-cult following. With twenty plus years of touring and over a dozen albums, Byrd’s deceptively simple, working-class songs have become campfire standards and crowd favorites for artists like Sam Bush and Tim O’Brien. A Jonathan Byrd show will take audiences on a journey from hell-raising sing-alongs to heart-wrenching ballads and back across the backroads of his native North Carolina.
A lifelong collaborator and innovator, Jonathan Byrd’s latest project is Song Miners, a project to not only write and release new songs, but also to teach others how it’s done. Leading powerful online songwriting workshops and creating free songwriting education for social media, Byrd seems on a mission to fill the world with great songs — not least, his own. Not to be missed.
Here are the basics again: Jonathan Byrd performs Oct. 28 at the ToL Coffeehouse at the Tree of Life Congregation at 6719 N Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC 29206. Tickets are $27 online by Oct. 26 and $29 after online and at the door.