Kyle Harvey CD Release (Omaha) with Brad Hoshaw, Justin Lamoureux & Friends Sunday, May 28th at 7pm The Down Under Lounge
ABOUT KYLE HARVEY - Kyle Harvey is a songwriter, poet, artist and filmmaker. Born and raised in Omaha, NE, he spent some years in the backseat of a van and town to town, playing bass and guitar in bands, most notably It's True, Reagan & The Rayguns, The Ointments, The Great Disappearing Act and Midwest Dilemma, as well as brief runs with Daniel Johnston, Past Punchy, Iris Pattern and Noah's Ark Was A Spaceship.
Solo, and in various bands, Harvey has been nominated for and/or won mulitple Omaha Enterntainment & Arts Awards. He has been fortunate to share the stage with Deerhunter, The Great Lake Swimmers, Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver), Cursive,, Daniel Johnston, The Mountain Goats, David Bazan, The Old 97's, Spoon, Bright Eyes, The Good Life, Criteria, Frank Black (of The Pixies), The Stills, Cowboy Indian Bear, The Haunted Windchimes, The Refreshments, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, The Samples, Art Alexakis (of Everclear), Jake Bellows, Denison Witmer, Jeff Hanson, Jeffery Lewis, The Faint, Superchunk, Ben Kweller, Mike Ireland, William Elliott Whitmore, Blue October, Mason Jennings, Eric Bachmann (of Crooked Fingers and Archers of Loaf), Scout Niblett, Jeremy Messersmith, Jay Farrar, David Rawlings, Mates of State, Dave Dondero, Milagres, Acid Mothers Temple, Willy Tea Taylor, Jonatha Brooke and many more.
Harvey is the author of the poetry collection Hyacinth (Lithic Press 2013), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Dirty Chai, Fat City Review, Heavy Feather Review, HOUSEGUEST, Metatron, Pilgrimage, Pith, SHAMPOO, Think Journal, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and elsewhere. He has published two serial poems July and Farewell Materials (Lithic Press), and a package of broadsides The Alphabet’s Book of Colors: Supplemental Notes for Philipp Otto Runge’s Die Farbenkugel (Reality Beach).
He is currently at work on a film called Portolano about North Beach legend Jack Mueller, a poetry manuscript titled The Alphabet That Never Recovers, and translation of Camino del Ñielol by Chilean poet Teófilo Cid. He lives with his wife and children in Fruita, Colorado.
www.kyleharveypoet.com www.lithicpress.com
ABOUT BRAD HOSHAW - Brad Hoshaw is an acoustic singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. He is best known for his seductive tenor voice and ability to bring audiences to tears. His music can be described as a cross between Neil Young and Bon Iver. Brad is currently preparing to enter the studio to record his ninth LP.
Brad Hoshaw began writing and performing when he was 16 years old. He has shared the stage with countless National touring acts including Black Francis, Bright Eyes, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Gomez, Cursive and Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers. Winner of five Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards, Brad Hoshaw has composed music for National Public Radio as well as independent theater and film. He is also a booking agent for the Junkstock festival, and founder of the Benson Songwriter Exchange.
Dolly Parton once expressed her enjoyment of his music, exclaiming “He can sing me to sleep anytime!”
JUSTIN LAMOUREUX/MIDWEST DILEMMA - A guitar, red trucker hat, folk songs, and an old Toyota wagon on open road. Justin Lamoureux has been performing as Midwest Dilemma for nearly a decade. Over hills, valleys, across plains, mountains, forests, deserts, rivers, oceans and destinations near and far to share stories of life in the Midwest. But there is nothing typical about Midwest Dilemma. Lamoureux recruited 23 musical collaborators for the debut release titled Timelines & Tragedies in 2008. The ever changing and revolving cast fill out the woodwind, brass, string, and percussion sections. Timelines & Tragedies is a time line of family history. Tracing Lamoureux's ancestors to their days of French Canadian fur trading, the Great Depression, the struggles of his parents' generation with Vietnam, and eventually concluding with his life in the Omaha.
Timelines & Tragedies was awarded OEA - Album of the Year in 2008 and charted CMJ Top 200. The song Chicago and North Western was featured on the PBS television series Roadtrip Nation.
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