Kenny Voita – Elmdale House Tavern, Thursday, November 12th
Kenny Voita is an alt-folk singer-songwriter in the vein of Gordon Lightfoot and Woody Guthrie. At the age of 21, his lyrics convey an astonishing maturity and his spare musical style, marrying blues-country with folk troubadour, appeals to cross-over audiences.
Born to an American father and Canadian mother, Kenny was raised in the small town of Young, AZ. Growing up to the music of Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, and Leadbelly, he got his first guitar at the age of 12, and began writing his own material at the age of 17. He began performing around this time and played most of the coffee houses in the Phoenix area, most notably Fiddlers Dream and Mama Java’s. At the age of 18, he was chosen out of several thousand submissions to appear in the Tucson Folk Festival.
Deciding to leave Arizona’s sparse folk scene, in 2008, he moved to Ottawa, the place of his mother’s birth and a city he had frequently visited throughout his life. In the first two weeks of his arrival, he was booked to play at the Rainbow, and was asked to open for Lynn Miles in the upcoming WESTFEST large-scale cultural festival in Westboro, Ottawa.
His debut album, Hard Road, released in 2008, is folk/blues record filled with songs about leaving, gamblers, trains, drifters, pain, lost love, and hippies on motorcycles. A Canadian-American who defies easy categorization, the songs on this album convey an astonishing maturity while staying true to the traditional music he grew up with in a small town in the American southwest.
In 2009, he appeared at the Mariposa and Tucson folk festivals as well as WESTFEST 2009.
More on Kenny at:
http://www.myspace.com/kenvoita
Kenny Voita, joins Max Cossette,
Thursday, November 12th
9:00 PM, ($5 cover)
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