SKINNY DYCK - Resist the urge to laugh at Skinny Dyck - the playful alias of western Canadian artist Ryan Dyck (or don’t, that’s kind of the idea). Victory Pool Records is thrilled to announce Easygoing, the new full-length album from Skinny Dyck, following hot on the heels of 2022's Palace Waiting, which “distilled the spirit of wide-cut country,” according to Exclaim! magazine. Easygoing sees Dyck moving a few steps further away from the country music environs he once wholly inhabited, but fear not, twang fans: rather than replacing that sound wholesale, he and his studio collaborators have instead created their own hybrid approaches. Or, as Dyck puts it, “I
still like to collect my mail at the old shack off the highway, but I no longer want to live there exclusively. ”

CHRIS ACKER - In a genre full of tall tales and marketable lies, Chris Acker crafts candid songs – weaving his wit and woes into a body of work that exposes the stale plight of the American Songster to the honest, and sometimes hilarious, light of day. Since leaving his childhood home of Seattle, Washington, Chris Acker has called the haggard decadence of the New Orleans Americana world his purlieu. In the tradition of Guthrie and Prine, Chris lends a quavering voice to the half-rotten romance of the unremarkable and unrefined. Regardless if you’re sitting by a backyard fire on a muggy Louisiana night or standing stage-side in some far flung town, when you hear Chris Acker playing, you’re hearing the end result of countless hours of observing the masters of the craft…and the end result of repeating their mistakes.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:30pm

Ticket price is $20 + .75 SF ($25 at the door). Tickets are non-refundable; however, they can be transferred to another individual. Refunds will only be issued in the case of event cancellation.

Guests will be seated first come first served. No seating or table reservations. All ages allowed.