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CHAPEL HILL -- Chapel Hill’s Deep Dish Theater will host the inaugural event in a new concert series, “Words to Music: Songwriters Up Close,” on Sunday, January 25, at 8 PM. The night of acoustic performances and casual conversation will feature three outstanding Triangle-based musicians—Sara Bell, Greg Humphreys, and Tom Maxwell—who will perform and discuss the creative process. “This show will be a rare opportunity to see and hear some of the area’s most dedicated and talented singer songwriters in a truly intimate setting,” said Doug Edmunds, a long-time contributor to the local music scene who will host the event. Doors at the 72-seat Deep Dish theater, located in University Mall, will open at 7:30pm, with the show starting promptly at 8. Admission is $12. To purchase tickets, call the Deep Dish Box Office at 968-1515 or go online at www.deepdishtheater.org. All three performers have been fixtures in the local music scene and beyond for more than 20 years. Sara Bell began playing guitar, banjo, mandolin and piano with Raleigh’s Angels of Epistemology in 1985, a band documented by local imprint Merge Records with the release of a 7" single in 1989 and full-length “Fruit” in 1992. She has backed up acclaimed singer songwriters Dana & Karen Kletter, and Lynn Blakey, Caitlin Cary and Tonya Lamm as part of Tres Chicas. She has performed with Chapel Hill’s genre-defying instrumentalist group Shark Quest since 1991, whose three records have been released on Merge, and with whom she has composed soundtracks for two films by Brett Ingram, “Monster Road” and the soon to be released “Rocaterrania.” She currently writes, records and tours with Regina Hexaphone, whose most recent record, “Into Your Sleeping Heart” was released in September 2007 on Raleigh’s Superfan Records. Winston-Salem native Greg Humphreys spent the last 20 years fronting bands Dillon Fence and HOBEX, releasing a dozen albums of music and playing over 2000 live shows throughout the United States and in Europe. Like his fellow performers on the bill, he has remained among the most active and dedicated--not to mention well liked--musicians to come out of the thriving late-80’s Triangle music scene. He recently released his first acoustic solo album “Trunk Songs,” which David Menconi called "...one of the definitive Chapel Hill anthems;" Chris Parker of the Independent Weekly wrote that "...these tracks prove Humphreys is capable of mostly anything." Tom Maxwell’s song "Hell" was a top-20 hit for the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and his work has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, a Super Bowl commercial, an Oscar-nominated documentary, and a Tony Award-winning Broadway soundtrack. Following his globetrotting adventures and success with the Zippers in the late 90s, Tom went on to release his first critically acclaimed solo CD, “Samsara,” in 2000. Andrew Bartlett from Amazon.com wrote of the diverse, soulful album, “Samsara's an ambitious outing, as big in scope maybe as are Maxwell's spiritual notions. This is also an immense creative success.” Tom is currently at work on his next record. Host Doug Edmunds had his first taste of musical success at 17, when his high school mod pop psychedelic band, The Seen, was included on a compilation album of underground American garage bands. He would go on to become a co-founding member, songwriter, and drummer for 90’s power pop trio, Gladhands, whose 2nd CD, “La Di Da,” was described by Billboard magazine as “an album whose wonders never cease.” Since Gladhands split in 1999, he has continued to write, record, and perform with various bands, and last fall he released his first solo album under the band moniker The Stars Explode. CONTACT INFO: Paul Frellick, Artistic Director, Deep Dish Theater Doug Edmunds, Co-organizer, Host & Musical MC |