Alex Dupree + Annie Blackman + S.Raekwon
Fri, Sep 30
|Bloomington
Alex Dupree, Annie Blackman, and S.Raekwon come to Bloomington on the Dessert First Tour, presented by Father/Daughter & Keeled Scales.
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2022, 8:00 PM
Bloomington, 2050 S College Ave, Bloomington, IN 47403, USA
About the event
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm / $10 / 21+ / vaccination card or negative test required
Alex Dupree
Dupree got his musical start in Austin, Texas, and his voice still has some Heartworn Highways-era color to it. In the mid 00s, he founded the Trapdoor Band, an improvisatory folk group and vehicle for his lyric-driven songwriting, before switching to the Idyl moniker in 2009.
Dupree moved to California to focus on poetry, studying and teaching at UC Irvine, with songwriting never far from his mind. He continued to hone his craft writing country songs for both the LA band Mister Paradise and a duet project called Dawn & Dupree (with Iva Dawn of They/Live). Despite a deep love for country music, Dupree’s songs never quite settled in that category, absorbing additional influences from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, Bjork, and John Cale.
Annie Blackman
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