june 19 | 6:30–9:30PM | the CHAPEL
Riverbend Centre for the Arts Unplugged @ the Chapel is an acoustic concert series featuring some of the most talented artists in Austin. Proceeds will support Art events at Riverbend and missions within our community.
6:30PM – Doors open with courtyard mixer and music. Cocktails, wine, and light snacks will be provided by local vendors!
7:30PM – Opening Artist - Chase Gassaway
8:15PM - Concert by Carolyn Wonderland
Cost: Balcony Seating - $25 and General Admission - Floor Seating - $35
Talented Texas Blues Singer, Guitarist | Carolyn Wonderland
Carolyn Wonderland, with her dynamic guitar playing, formidable songwriting, and pure Texas vocals, has more than earned her reputation as a fiercely independent artist. Wonderland plays original, bluesified, cosmic soul music, mixed with heavy doses of Tex-Mex and riff-fueled rock ‘n’ roll. She has been performing professionally since the age of 15 and has led a colorful and adventurous life. On the road her entire career, she’s played with icons from Townes Van Zandt to Levon Helm, from Buddy Guy to Hubert Sumlin, from Bob Dylan to John Mayall, all while writing her own story.
CHASE GASSAWAY
Chase is a lifelong musician and songwriter. While he primarily tours the country as a solo artist, you will often find him sitting in with a variety of Austin-based bands. Whether he’s on keys, guitars, ukulele, bass, or a bell kit, he feels most at home when he’s on a stage making music with people.
A lifelong Texan, Gassaway studied music composition and theory in college, honing his skills as a composer by creating works for a wide range of ensembles from choirs to full orchestras, as well as composing the score to short film Take Two. He has also been trained in classical guitar and voice, and plays a variety of instruments from banjolele to reed organ. His training, and the onstage lessons he’s learned as a solo performer and member of groups such as Canaries in the Coal Mine and formally the Matchmaker Band, has resulted in multi-textured pop songs that recall the Head & the Heart and Ben Folds. In a Chase Gassaway song, it’s not unusual to hear strings, horns, woodwinds and piano accompanying Gassaway’s engaging lyrics and slightly husky vocals, which might remind listeners of Jakob Dylan’s.