Autumnal Evening with Southpaw Jones

An Autumnal Evening with Southpaw Jones
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
7 pm
Hyde Park Theatre

511 West 43rd Street
Austin, TX 78751
$10 General Admission
Your purchase of advance will call tickets via PayPal is highly encouraged.
There is no service charge:

Southpaw Jones celebrates creative freedom and the freedom of a bare stage with a mostly solo performance in one of Austin’s most intimate, magical rooms. Southpaw has spent many hours on the Hyde Park Theatre stage as part of Spike Gillespie’s long-running Dick Monologues. (Spike has agreed to open the show and introduce Southpaw!) He started 2014 with surprise Frontera Fest success in a one-man short-form show that made it all the way to Best in Fest. He now returns to the Theatre to expand that original work with more original songs, more half-rehearsed monologues, and more personal experimentation. Prepare to laugh and cry spontaneously and perhaps even simultaneously.

This is also the unofficial and late album release celebration for Southpaw’s Domestic Love Canoe, a collection of 10 love songs, available now at most online music retailers. Download cards and other merchandise will be on sale the night of the show.

Covered off-street parking for the patrons of HPT is available in the lot at 4315 Guadalupe Street, just north of The Parlor. You can drive through The Parlor’s parking lot to reach it. Evening HPT parking also available at Kenneth’s Hair Salon, just south of HPT, and at the Hyde Park Church of Christ on the northeast corner of 43rd & Avenue B.

Experimental Show Pilot Sunday @ Salvage Vanguard

The Southpaw Jones Show
A Live Experimental Pilot Episode

This Sunday night is a special one at Salvage Vanguard Theater. My pal Brian Kremer and I are fulfilling some individual dreams separately and together. At 7 pm, Brian will perform a mostly-solo set of originals and covers to prepare the world for his exciting upcoming record. This will be his first show for a live crowd as well as an internet audience via Concert Window.

My half of the show will be something wild I’ve been wanting to try for an open-minded crowd, a fever-dream of creativity, dialogue, and song. Here’s the official description:

The Southpaw Jones Show is an experimental live pilot from singer/songwriter and virtual Austin native Southpaw Jones. Imagine a table read featuring elements from David Letterman, A Prairie Home Companion, and Hee Haw. Throw in some fine original music. Position Southpaw as the puppet master, asking his trusting friends to bring a show to life before they even know what said show is. You get the idea, yes? What does it mean to write dialogue for another human being who is playing themselves? What happens when an artist is finally able to do the show of his dreams? What is more valuable in live entertainment: freshness or polish? Witness Tim Ashlock, Brian Kremer, Aaron Treptow, Maggie Wilhite, and Southpaw Jones answer all these questions and more.

Here’s to artists expanding their horizons! If you want to witness history-in-the-making twice in one night, feel free to declare your intentions or just say hello on the Facebook Event. The details:

Brian Kremer & Southpaw Jones
Sunday, August 24, 2014
7:00 pm
$10 at the door
Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 E Manor Rd
Austin, TX 78722

Jump into My Domestic Love Canoe Today!

It’s true, Domestic Love Canoe – from zero to husband in 10 songs – is now available at Amazon, iTunes, etc. I’m linking to CDBaby here, because they give more money back to artists, and they offer FLAC as well as high-quality MP3. Hooray!

Southpaw Jones: Domestic Love Canoe