Liz Frame & the Kickers at FAC's Sky Stage

59 South Carroll Street,Frederick MD 21701

01 September, 2021

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Boston-based Liz Frame & the Kickers bring their original Americana to Frederick, along with Marjorie Senet, and Frederick's own PC Lamar! Liz Frame & the Kickers offer rootsy and rockin' and Americana music from their latest release, Firefly, and ample trove of original songs from previous albums. All-ages (under 12 free), doors 30 minutes before start time, beer/wine for 21+ with ID. Other small concessions, water and soft drinks also available, cash or cards. The Frederick Arts Council's policy is to please have a mask on hand for when unable to distance from our more vulnerable, younger/unvaccinated guests, performers, staff or volunteers. Boston-based singer-songwriter Liz Frame was weened on the music of her parents’ generation, absorbing the influence of their heartland heroes — immortal and iconic artists like Jimmie Rogers, The Weavers, B.B. King and Elvis Presley, to name but a few. It became deeply rooted in her musical psyche, so much so that she began writing her own music at the tender age of nine, and after picking up her first guitar at fourteen, it found her performing in front of audiences while still in her early teens. Not surprisingly, her music of choice was honest, unbridled Americana, a sound that continues to represent the disparate styles that captured her imagination so early on. Backed by her band, The Kickers — John Webb on lead guitars, Jake Davis on bass and Jarrett Osborn on drums — Frame continues to write and perform with seemingly nonstop energy and enthusiasm. Yet it was the death of her beloved mother in 2007 that turned her focus entirely to her craft. Sooner, her full length debut, appeared in 2011 and featured a stellar line-up consisting of some of New England’s finest sessions players, among them Duke Levine, Kevin Barry and Bobby Keyes. Frame’s follow-up, the Justine EP, was released three years later and confirmed the savvy and intellect so evident the first time around. Moreover, it affirmed the fact that Frame is a fine front woman, a singer who possesses not only a cool confidence, but also an ideal blend of soul, sophistication and sensuality. The edge and deliberation inherent in “A Good Day to Say Goodbye,” the strains of bluegrass echoed in the title track, the restraint and remorse woven into “I Don’t Wanna Let You Go,” and the emotional, evocative finale, “The Secrets I've Been Keeping” spotlight the band’s power and potential. Fortunately, their efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. [In 2018, Frame released the critically-acclaimed album Sparrow in a Shoebox, which again features beautiful contributions by Duke Levine and a host of other respected area musicians, as they hit the stages of choice venues from New England to the mid Atlantic, attracting new fans along the way. Some critics have compared her singing to Patsy Cline and Linda Ronstadt, while others have noted similarities in her songwriting to the work of Dolly Parton and Lucinda Williams. At the same time, Frame and her colleagues have developed synergy with like-minded contemporaries as well, among them, Grammy Award winning producer and engineer Ducky Carlisle, and guitarist Stan Martin, a former member of the popular honky-tonk combo John Lincoln Wright. --exerpted from Lee Zimmerman , writer/reviewer for American Songwriter, No Depression, New Times, Country Standard Time, Blurt, Relix, and M Music and Musicians