This June 9th Jessie will perform her songs at the Christchurch Folk Music Club accompanied by good old friends and musical accomplices; Jono Hopley (double bass), Glenn Teasedale (lap steel), Adam Hattaway (hot licks) and Tess Liautaud (singin’ and strumming). They’ll be dusting off some tunes from The Eastern back catalog and showcasing some near new, seldom heard, not yet road tested numbers.
Tess Liautaud and Adam Hattaway, in their duo incarnation, will open the evening with some songs they wrote and some they found. They have promised not to outshine the main attraction but who really can trust them?
Having traversed the countryside for the last fifteen or so years in New Zealand’s hardest working band The Eastern, Jessie Shanks is a renowned guitar picking, banjo frailing, foot stomper with a sweet southern voice and a raft of songs built from years on the road. Shanks has cultivated her own unique approach to roots music, performing haunting contemporary folk tunes steeped in time and place and woven from her countless travels.
