Triple Bill At Kiln This Saturday

Lexington Artist Among Performers

Lime Kiln Theater’s summer 2024 concert series continues on Saturday, Aug. 31, with a triple bill featuring Viv & Riley, Alexa Rose and Dori Freeman.

Advance tickets for the show are $30 and are on sale now at www.limekilntheater. org. Pending availability, tickets will be $35 at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. The concert will take place at Lime Kiln rain or shine.

Viv & Riley’s sound is oldsoul roots music to its core, elegantly combining a traditional backbone with the fresh iconic melodies of future- leaning indie-folk, and the tightly wound vocal harmonies of the old-time and classic country music they came from.

Although they grew up on opposite sides of the country, Riley in Seattle, Wash., and Vivian in Lexington, the two had an instant musical connection upon meeting in 2018. The pair has been collaborating since then, honing their sound playing hundreds of shows across the U.S., UK, and Canada. Since 2018, they’ve recorded and released multiple albums to critical acclaim from the likes of NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and No Depression, and have garnered nearly six million streams on Spotify.

“Headwaters” is the sophomore album from Virginian indie folk singer Alexa Rose, featuring a series of minutely-observed vignettes that feel intimate and expansive at the same time. It captures the sweetness of life without avoiding any of the pain, with songs about time and its constraints, peppered with precise details pulled from Rose’s own life that make universal themes seem personal, inviting the listener to make each song their own.

Dori Freeman has sharpened her vision of Appalachian Americana over five studio albums. From the country traditionalism of her self-titled debut to the amplified folk of “Ten Thousand Roses,” it’s a sound that nods to her mountain-town roots even as it reaches beyond them. Freeman continued creating her own musical geography with “Do You Recall,” the songwriter’s most eclectic — and electric — record yet. Like a counterpart to “Ten Thousand Roses” — the 2021 release that found Freeman trading the acoustic textures of her earlier work for a more expansive, electrified version of American roots music — “Do You Recall” nods to the full range of Freeman’s influences and abilities. She still sings with the unforced vibrato of a classic folksinger, said a spokesperson, but she’s more of a modern trailblazer than a throwback traditionalist, funneling her Blue Ridge roots into a contemporary sound that’s both broad and bold.

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