Matthew Mayfield & Garrison Starr

1245 Chicago Avenue,Evanston IL 60202

20 October, 2021

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Matthew Mayfield & Garrison Starr ALL AGES Matthew Mayfield, Garrison Starr Matthew Mayfield & Garrison Starr at SPACE in Evanston, IL // Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm // Tickets: $20 – $75 COVID - 19 NOTICE: Per the artists' request, patrons are required to be fully vaccinated or to present a negative COVID-19 test result within 48-72 hours of attending the show. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. GENRE: Singer-Songwriter // Pop // Rock // Americana From haunting acoustic ballads to gritty rock and roll songs filled with swagger and attitude, Matthew Mayfield has spent the past decade releasing music that has changed the hearts and lives of his listeners. His latest LP, Gun Shy, is a collection of songs as varied as the emotions each of us feels. If his previous release, RECOIL, was the fruit of an intense effort by Mayfield to depict the good, the bad, and the ugly in the world he inhabited, Gun Shy is a look into all worlds – those full of darkness and hope. To connect with listeners and draw them into these worlds, Matthew created Inside the Song with Matthew Mayfield, a podcast dedicated to telling the stories behind the songs of Gun Shy - Mayfield’s most introspective and personal record to date. ARTIST WEBSITE “I’m claiming my seat at the table. I’ve earned it.” Garrison Starr has reconciled the pain of her past, wrestled shame and self-doubt into submission, and stands in her powerfully-bared truth with her new album, Girl I Used To Be. After two milestone-laden decades in music (GRAMMY-nominated album, sync placements on massive TV hits including “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Pretty Little Liars,” touring with Patty Griffin, Melissa Etheridge and more), Garrison, hailed as “Lucinda Williams for Gen X’ers” by NPR, quietly put her “artist self” on the shelf. Having been kicked out of the Evangelical church of her youth for being gay, she retreated into songwriting—exhausted, hurt, and angry. Processing pain with her pen, Garrison faced down the hell she paid growing up in Christian fundamentalism which only saw her “sin”— trauma she tackles on the album’s tone-setting first track, “The Devil In Me”. Lauded by MSNBC for her “gorgeous, full, rough, passionate voice that can be ultimately pensive, intimate, hurt, consoling, libidinous, or scornful—sometimes during the same verse,” Garrison reconnected with her a part of herself she’d been missing “for a long, long time” while recording Girl I Used To Be. ARTIST WEBSITE Matthew Mayfield, Garrison Starr SPACE is a live music hall in Evanston, Ill., established in 2008.