Bill Deasy-Gathering Field & Walter Salas-Humara
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Renowned songwriters Bill Deasy of the Gathering Field and Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos will be performing intimate acoustic sets.
Tickets are $10 in advance $15 at the door
FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Singer/songwriter and visual artist Walter Salas-Humara was conceived in Havana, born in New York City and raised in Southern Florida. His rock band The Silos was voted Best New American Band in the Rolling Stone Critics’ Poll of 1987, and according to The New York Times, “His austere style inflects the astringent twang of The Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons.”
Over the last 25 years, The Silos have recorded 12 albums, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and put in thousands of days on the road. Salas-Humara has also recorded two previous solo albums -- 1988’s Lagartija and 1995’s Radar -- and on August 12, 2014, he will release his third, entitled Curve and Shake, distributed by The Orchard.
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Bill Deasy
Singer-songwriter and novelist Bill Deasy has toured nationally behind eleven critically-acclaimed albums, four with the Gathering Field, and seven as a solo artist. Bill has written for artists including Martina McBride and Billy Ray Cyrus, in addition to collaborating on songs with the likes of Howard Jones, the Clarks, Maia Sharp, Bijou Phillips, One Flew South, Kim Carnes, Odie Blackmon and many others. Bill's recording of "Good Things are Happening," a song he co-wrote on a trip to Nashville, became the long-running theme for Good Morning America on ABC and he appeared in the promo spots, strumming his guitar and singing. Bill also is credited with the Emmy-Award Winning “Your Home” Campaign for KDKA TV in Pittsburgh.
In 2006, Bill added "published author" to his list of accomplishments with the release of Ransom Seaborn which went on to win the Golden Needle Award and is currently being adapted for film (with Bill writing the screenplay). Traveling Clothes followed in 2009 and Ghost Tree in 2010, both delivering generously on the promise of Ransom Seaborn.
Bill was selected as one of Pittsburgh Magazine’s 25 “most beautiful people” in 2005 and, in 2008, Bill was included in the book “Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred” as one of 500 of the most memorable Pittsburghers from the past 250 years.