Peggy's Porch Party with Jeff Plankenhorn and Michael O'Connor

2602 De Soto Drive,Austin TX 78733

10 March, 2022

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Welcome Back Jeff Plankenhorn and Michael O'Connor! We are excited to announce that Jeff Plankenhorn and Michael O'Connor will be performing at Peggy’s Porch Party on Thursday, March 10, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 pm. We can't wait to host these two talented singer/songwriters while they are in town for SXSW! Arrival time is 6 :00 p.m. and music will begin around 6:30 p.m. What to Bring: Chair or blanket, snacks, and beverage. This is an outside event. Weather permitting. Required: Vaccine Cards or a negative COVID test within 72 hours of the event. You can email your vaccine card to peggysporchparty@gmail. com prior to the event OR bring your card to event. You can also text your vax card to 202-276-5908. Cancellation Policy: Peggy's Porch Party and Peggy's On The Ledge are held in our yards. In case inclement weather forces cancellation, we will do our best to reschedule the artist(s) and provide you with a rain check for their future date. If the future date does not work for you, we will try to honor your request to use your ticket for any other event with the same ticket price (based on availability.) Jeff Plankenhorn, singer-songwriter and all things strings multi-instrumentalist—guitar, lap steel, mandolin, piano, upright bass—began his career as a boy soprano in Ohio. After studying music theory and composition at University of Michigan, Texas beckoned when Ray Wylie Hubbard enticed Jeff to join his band. Slide guitar virtuoso, Jeff spent his early career backing the likes of Hubbard and Joe Ely. His patented lap slide guitar, “the Plank,” with a distinctive sound derived from the instrument's square neck and electric guitar body—netted him Austin Music Awards 2017 “Best Miscellaneous Instrument”. Now a potent solo artist, his larger-than-life presence on stage binds together a host of talents into a powerful whole. His soulful roots rock gained him a seat among the best contemporary Americana songwriters, while the vocal clarity and power developed in his early years is unmistakable in his poignant baritone now. Jeff’s deep sense of community is evident in the Purgatory Players Gospel brunch, contributing 153,275 meals to the Texas Food Bank in 2019 and his fundraising efforts for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. He has collaborated with Ray Wylie Hubbard, Joe Ely, Patty Griffin, Ruthie Foster, Bob Schneider, the Flatlanders, “Scrappy” Jud Newcomb, and more. “Jeff Plankenhorn has become an Austin institution, sought after by many artists to lend his musical talents to their albums and performances. Calling him a guitarist doesn’t do him justice, though. Sure, he’s designed his very own guitar – a custom lap steel guitar called, perhaps not surprisingly, “The Plank”. And you can give him just about any stringed instrument and he’ll no doubt get it singing. —Mayer Danzig, Twangville “Plankenhorn made his name in Austin as a preeminent guitar slinger, especially as a slide specialist. Now he's put pen to paper and is increasingly known for his impressive songwriting and powerful voice. With the recent release of “SoulSlide” he has completed his bona fides as both a master instrumentalist and an important songwriter and singer.” —Austin Songwriter "Over the course of the last two decades, Jeff Plankenhorn has worked tirelessly to earn his rep as one of the most reliably can-do, right-dude-for-the-job musicians in Austin, Texas. As an exceptionally talented acoustic, electric, slide, and lap-steel guitarist with a keen understanding of the importance of playing to and for a song rather than all over it, he’s been called on countless times to back a veritable who’s who of Texas and Americana music’s finest singers and songwriters, including Ray Wylie Hubbard, Joe Ely, Eliza Gilkyson, Ruthie Foster, and the late Jimmy LaFave.” —Lone Star Music Michael O'Connor is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter living in Colorado. For decades he has performed and recorded with musicians including Ray Wylie Hubbard, Slaid Cleaves, Adam Carroll, Susan Gibson, Terri Hendrix, Jeff Plankenhorn and Shelley King. A lifetime of hard-won experience on- and off-stage has allowed Michael a rare insight into the world of the rough, the faithless, the romantic, and the unlucky, all of whom find refuge in his songs. Michael has toured throughout the United States and overseas. He has released seven albums, and is continuing to release new music. Press "Chances are that if you’ve seen a prominent Texas singer-songwriter over the last couple of decades, you’ve also seen the [long-haired] O’Connor, sitting off to one side picking acoustic guitar. I once remarked of another hired gun turned solo that there must come a point where a sideman has to wonder how hard the singer-songwriter deal can be if this yo-yo can do it, and O’Connor reached that point some time ago, releasing Green And Blue (Bare Knuckle) back in 2000. [Bloodshot Vagabond] is his fifth album, counting one he split with Adam Carroll, and I’d say he’s pretty much got a grip on it. Of the 11 songs, three were cowritten with another in demand sideman turned songwriter, Jeff Plankenhorn, and two with Carroll and Michael Waters, which may, or may not, explain the emotional range, from sentimental to stoic to pensive to badass. Produced by Jack Saunders, who also plays upright and electric bass, with the great Rick Richards on drums and percussion, O’Connor, who plays all guitars, lap steel, mandolin and banjo, rather unusually, has no other guests, providing all the instrumental fireworks himself and it's the perfect integration of songs and music that’s the payoff when a sideman successfully makes the transition to frontman, there’s nothing lost in discussion." - John Conquest, 2016 "...part of the same Lone Star constellation as such Texas legends as Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender." - Richard Skanse, on Michael's induction into the South Texas Music Walk of Fame "O'Connor may be yet another hidden gem from Texas . . . soulful vocals. . . and his songwriting is top notch." - Eli Petersen, Twangville ". . . a collection of songs that take unvarnished looks at not-so-beautiful losers who populate the margins: the has-beens, the never-will-bes. . . With the line, 'a bar tab as long as Billy Gibbons' beard', even losers win." - Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express-News