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Eric Bannan and Wyatt Easterling
Eric Bannan - Musical Storyteller, Folk, Funk, Blues
Eric Bannan brings stories to life with moving personal narratives, a sly sense of humor and a soulful singing voice. Eric is a husband, father, songwriter, storyteller, US Coast Guard rescue flight crew veteran, back country adventure racer, and cancer survivor with a masters in computer science.
He has been called to share his art to inspire, motivate for positive change and build community. His music is rooted in folk, driven by foot-tapping funk and seasoned with the blues. With almost 40 years of performing experience, Erics presentations are an energetic celebration of life. Based in Pittsboro, NC Eric travels the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states bringing the power of storytelling to faith communities, festivals and front porches.
Erics new 2017 CD You Are Welcome Here is an intriguing collection of uplifting anthems and startling narratives of life on the margins. It debuted at #15 on the North American Folk DJ charts. www.ericbannan.com.
Wyatt Easterling - Folk
Wyatt first came to Nashville as a folk singer on the verge of signing with CBS Records, but in true industry fashion, Sony acquired the label, and the deal fell through. Undeterred, he signed on as a writer with a new publishing company opened by former CBS label head Rick Blackburn.
After a couple of years there, Blackburn brought him on as head of A&R at Atlantic Records where Wyatt signed some of country musics biggest names including John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Lawrence, Michael Johnson and Neal McCoy. He also began working as a producer, guiding Montgomerys debut album Lifes A Dance to an impressive three million copies sold. After Atlantic, Wyatt opened Bugle Publishing Group with partner Miles Copeland, where he signed a number of artists, most notably Keith Urban and Paul Thorn. At Bugle, Wyatt also produced Thorns debut album Hammer and Nail and got the future superstar Urban his first record deal.
During that period, Wyatt and Miles had the inventive idea to turn a chateau in the south of France into a writers den they called The Castle where they began pairing their Nashville songwriters with big name artists like Carole King, Cher, Peter Frampton and Olivia Newton John. In time, Wyatt was ready to move on from the publishing world, and he signed as a writer with DreamWorks Publishing, API and EMI where he had numerous songs recorded by the likes of Dierks Bentley and Joe Diffie, including the gorgeous title track from Bentleys album Modern Day Drifter.
After all of his time navigating the many facets of the music industry, it turns out his true destination was in fact to be a singer-songwriter. He started touring, including consecutive appearances as a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville New Folk contest, and hes since recorded his two beautiful albums Where This River Goes and Goodbye, Hello. And now happily we have a third collection of songs by Wyatt Easterling in Divining Rod that we can all listen to it for years to come.
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LocationThe Joyful Jewel (View)
44-A Hillsboro Street
Pittsboro, NC 27312
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 12 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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