Award-winning Americana/folk duo Ordinary Elephant will play The Village Cafe on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8pm in support of their latest studio album Honest. Doors will open at 7:30pm. The Village Cafe is located at 210 W 26th St in Bryan. Ticket prices are $15 for general admission and $10 for students.
Ordinary Elephant captivates audiences with their emotionally powerful and vulnerable songs, letting the listener know that they are not alone in this world. The collaboration of husband and wife Pete and Crystal Damore, their connection, and their influences (such as Gillian Welch, Guy Clark, Anaïs Mitchell) all meet on stage. “Two become one, in song ... hand-in-glove harmonies surprise the listener with focused intensity and musical mastery,” says Grammy-nominated songwriter Mary Gauthier.
Ordinary Elephant was named Artist of the Year at the 2018 International Folk Music Awards, and their 2019 release Honest has been called “one of the best Americana albums of the year” by the Associated Press. PopMatters says it is “easily one of the best folk duo records I’ve heard in years.” Honest was the No. 1 album on the Folk DJ Chart for May, and hovered in the top 5 of the weekly NACC Folk chart from June to October.
Crystal and Pete will be making their way back to The Village Cafe in Bryan where they met in 2009 at the Singer-Songwriter Night, an all-original open mic hosted by local favorite, Joey McGee. Appropriately, Joey will be starting the night off with a short set with his own brand of original music - infused with the energy of his native New Orleans, informed by his experiences working and living in Pittsburgh, and inspired by the Brazos Valley vistas of his current home in Bryan.
Ticket prices are $15 or $10 for students, and can be purchased at www.ordinaryelephant.net/the-village. For more information, call (979) 703-8514.
