Porchlight presents Wilder Adkins

2104 Old Buncombe Rd,Greenville SC 29609

23 September, 2022

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ABOUT THE EVENT You're officially invited by Porchlight to gather and celebrate a musical evening filled with stories that travel faith and doubt, hope and sorrow. An Eventbrite ticket reserves your spot. The artist has suggested a $15 ticket at the door (check, cash, credit, Venmo or PayPal). If this amount is restrictive for you to attend, please come anyway. We'd rather have you. :) Time: Doors open at 6:30pm and the concert is 7:00 - 9:00 with a short intermission. Hangout after the show with friends and the artist! ABOUT THE ARTIST Wilder Adkins’ songwriting gleans as much from the earthy poetry of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver as it does from the works of folk luminaries Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn. He’s a true theosophical spirit, arrestingly taciturn, but possessed of startling guitar skills, a wit as dry as October leaves, and a tremulous, dented voice that’s frankly mesmerizing. His courtly-but-witty lyrics evoke a Deep South Shelley or Yeats, riding a joyful guitar dexterity. Adkins hails from Marietta, GA, but now lives and writes in Birmingham, AL. He grew up listening to his dad play renditions of Neil Young and Van Morrison songs on an old Guild Jumbo Acoustic. Some time spent in India helped to expand his melodic sense and also provided a chance to learn Hindi. Adkins’ songs, steeped in natural imagery, frequently touch upon the subjects of faith, doubt, and as the title of his new album would indicate, hope and sorrow. He has shared the stage with Josh Garrels, and the Gray Havens. Grand Prize Winner of the 2016 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting CompetitionFeatured Performer in the ASCAP Foundation's "Songwriters: The Next Generation" 2017 showcase at The Kennedy CenterWinner of the inaugural "ASC Commissions Birmingham" song contest, 2014, with "Side By Side"IN THE NEWS “As a lyricist, he’s as much a photographer as a poet, snapping verbal Polaroids... and stringing them together with the accompaniment of his effusively warm folk music" -Spirit You All "Adkins’ skill is in the delicate, tender folk tune; he expertly lays down gentle fingerpicking... His voice is perfectly suited to this work." -Independent Clauses “Wilder Adkins is a Southern boy with typical wit and twang matched with a profound sophistication" -Elmore Magazine "Adkins sings in that middle ground where heartache meets love, questions meet faith, and joy blends with pain." -Let Us Make A Record “By turns haunting, spectral, tender and tenacious, Adkins is a master when it comes to conveying uncommon emotion, relying on minimal arrangements that sometimes seem suspended in the ether" -Elmore Magazine