Americana/Blues Singer-Songwriter to perform in Little Falls

LITTLE FALLS, March 8, 2010 -- The Jeremy Wallace Trio will perform at the Black Box Theater on Saturday, April 3 for a fundraiser for the Mohawk Valley Arts Council.

Wallace has performed numerous times in the area over the past few years at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, the Night Eagle Café in Oxford, the Fetish Festival in Guilford, Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown and the Mohawk Valley Blues Festival in 2008. He has become a regular at the renowned Café Lena in Saratoga Springs. The Black Box Theater is an intimate 55 seat theater located at 410 Canal Street in Little Falls. Show time is 8pm and the tickets are just $15.

His work has been described as, “a little folk, a tinge of rock, some country and loaded with gritty blues.” Wallace’s dynamic songs and style bring “a fresh voice and attitude to traditional American music.” He has been compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. It is his songwriting that places him in the company of the aforementioned. If we’re lucky, once or twice a decade, an artist with such detailed storytelling and dynamic phrasing, comes along.

Jeremy Wallace started writing songs the way many singer-songwriters do: he culled personal experiences from volumes of journals packed into milk crates. Somewhere along the line, Wallace’s personal lyrics merged with the lives of lonely fictional characters – the unlucky, the heartbroken, blue collar joes’ who drank too much, smoked too much, loved too much for their own good – and his music took a turn. A mature narrative voice emerged, one that reflected his world and connected with ordinary people. When audiences hear Wallace’s music, they see themselves in the stories he weaves.

That’s why Wallace thinks of himself as an everyman. He has three albums under his belt, "My Lucky Day", "She Used To Call Me Honey" and his latest, “Suicide Suitcase”. These days, people are talking: “That young man is what Bob Dylan should’a become.” Watermelon Slim – Northern Blues Recording Artist and record 12 BMA nominations in two years. “After listening to the CD (Suicide Suitcase) a second time, I am convinced that Jeremy Wallace is the real deal. This is Americana at it's best. Someone please sign this guy.” Paul Babin – Manager, John Hammond

Wallace has performed at the Towne Crier, the Iron Horse, the Calvin Theater, the Sellersville Theater, Cafe Lena, the Night Eagle Café, the Bowery Ballroom, The Narrows, the New York State Blues Festival, the Mohawk Valley Blues Festival and the sorely missed Bottom Line in NYC. He has opened for John Hammond, Watermelon Slim, John Gorka, Dan Hicks and his Hotlicks, Robbie Fulks, DelMcCoury, Steve Forbert, Greg Brown, Richie Havens, and Odetta.