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Music at 3:00 p.m.
Socializing and light potluck at 2:00 p.m.
$15-20 suggested artist donation*
For an invitation to attend, please contact Lee
by email at windycityhouseconcerts@gmail.com
or at 312-810-3067
Update: We had to cancel this show – please join us for a future show.
I’m thrilled to host Ernest Troost in his return to Chicago. He played WFMT Folkstage last year in June and this year we get to host him. He’s also playing Two Way Street Coffee House on Friday, September 9 before heading north to Wisconsin for several shows. We’ve hosted Ernest previously in New Mexico and gotten to know him a bit. Some of his songs are a bit dark, but he’s a lovely person to spend time with.
Ernest is an Emmy-winning film and television composer as well as a recipient of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk award for his songwriting. He also composed and produced two award-winning albums of songs for Judy Collins using the words of Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning, Gertrude Stein, and others. Los Angeles-based Troost’s scores for films include the cult classic Tremors and HBO’s award-winning Lesson Before Dying.
As a solo performer, Ernest brings his amazing songs to life with a spare singing style and some amazing guitar chops, all in service of story-songs that tell a story – aural movies, if you will, that will draw you in time after time.
“Troost’s style and subject matter recall Dylan, Dave Alvin, and (especially for his concentration on life’s darker side) Richard Thompson —enviable company indeed.” – Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue Magazine
“Ernest Troost’s music is a perverse and diverse celebration of American folk music. . It’s a vibrant festival of tragedy and comedy, a wind-blown crossroads of American culture where Piedmont blues meets modern literature in the darkest of themes.” – Terry Rolands, Folkworks.org
“Imagine a bayou-bred John Steinbeck taking up a fret board instead of a pen and you’ve pretty much got the picture.” – Don Grant, Freight Train Boogie
http://ernesttroost.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ernest.troost
https://soundcloud.com/ernest-troost
Videos:
“Pray Real Hard” from Ernest’s most recent album, “O Love”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgMnKbFxhxU
“Switchblade Heart” is one of my favorite Ernest Troost songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wLhoc2tem0
* All funds go to the musician
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