PINEDALE, Wyo. — Pinedale’s Soundcheck Summer Music comes to a close this Friday, Aug. 12 with a two-band bill featuring Dallas-based super-group The Texas Gentlemen headlining. Missouri-based duo Forrest McCurren will open the show.
All Soundcheck shows are presented by the Pinedale Fine Arts Council (PFAC) and take place at American Legion Park in downtown Pinedale. Shows are free to the public and feature food and drink vendors, kids activities and friendly environment! Saturday’s show will kick off at 5 p.m.
The final Soundcheck of the summer will also host Pinedale’s annual Duck Derby—a fundraiser for the Pinedale Aquatic Center, and a special performance by students from PFAC’s dance/visual art camp!
The Texas Gentlemen are no ordinary Gents! Rather, the members—co-singers and frontmen Nik Lee and Daniel Creamer, who also handles guitar and keys, respectively; guitarist Ryan Ake; bassist Scott Edgar Lee, Jr.; and drummer Paul Grass—have spent the last half-decade logging thousands of hours of stage and studio time behind a wide array of artists, from legends including Kris Kristofferson, George Strait and Joe Ely to young whippersnappers like Leon Bridges and Shakey Graves.
While the Gentlemen’s sound is clearly steeped in the classic roots, rock and pop music of the ‘60s and ‘70s, there’s a dreamy, spacey and occasionally progressive element to what they do that seems to detach the music from belonging to any particular place and time.
Forrest McCurren’s songs, and their characters, could only come from the Middle of Missouri, where fertile plains meet the rocky, Ozark hills. Where rivers roll into wide-open skies, and Saturday night beer-binging turns into Sunday morning hymn-singing. They are familiar and strange, from the town and the country, looking to get lost and hoping to be found.
For the full Soundcheck lineup and more information please visit soundcheckpinedale.com
