Cruz Contreras Yard Concert

169 Virginia Avenue,Asheville NC 28806

17 April, 2021

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Cruz Contreras, formerly of The Black Lillies and Robinella, will play a solo show in our backyard to kickoff our 2021 yard concert series! So excited to start up our 2021 concert series with a good friend and amazing artist, Cruz Contreras! Cruz does great, high energy show with Americana and Country influences and has toured the whole country for years with a huge following, so we are very lucky to have him start our series this year. This will be limited to 40 people and a ticketed show ($30/person -- see link below) that will be physically distanced. Bring your chairs, picnic and cooler with beverages of choice. Also bring your mask as they are required when away from your seat! More on Cruz: MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, VOCALIST, SONGWRITER, AND PRODUCER CRUZ CONTRERAS HAS ROOTS IN TENNESSEE AND MICHIGAN, BUT HAS IMPACTED AMERICANA MUSIC WORLDWIDE. The frontman, founder, and driving force behind The Black Lillies’ raw and rootsy sound also co-founded Robinella and the CCstringband, and has collaborated with musicians ranging from John Oates and Jim Lauderdale to Langhorne Slim and The Turnpike Troubadours. His projects have topped both the Billboard and Americana radio charts, won Independent Music Awards, and been nominated for the Americana Music Association’s Emerging Artist of the Year award. Contreras is currently performing as a solo act and has been recently collaborating with cellist Dave Eggar, fiddle player Billy Contreras, and wife Molly Contreras. Cruz has appeared on nationally broadcasted television including Late Night with Conan O’Brien, CMT, VH-1, GAC, Bluegrass Underground and PBS Television’s Sun Studio Sessions. His music has been lauded by outlets as diverse as American Songwriter Magazine, Rolling Stone, NPR’s Morning Edition and Vanity Fair, among others. Contreras is currently at work on his debut solo album, ‘Cosmico’, to be released 2021.