Eddie Owen Presents: Jennifer Knapp with David Robert King

Eddie Owen Presents: Jennifer Knapp with David Robert King
Saturday September 29th at 8 pm
Live at Red Clay Music Foundry
Tickets: https://goo.gl/eE5q6U

Premium Seating: $25 (Day of Show $29)
Reserved Seating: $20 (Day of Show $24)

After releasing three contemporary Christian albums in the late ’90s and early 2000s, Jennifer Knapp took a long break from music and moved to Australia before resuming her career in 2009. The following year, she came out as gay and released Letting Go, her first mainstream album. Set Me Free followed in 2014, in conjunction with a memoir, Facing the Music: My Story on Howard Books/Simon & Schuster.

When she’s not occupied with music, or doing advocacy work on behalf of LGBTQ people of faith through her Inside Out Faith organization, Knapp is working on a master’s degree in theological studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. It’s not what she thought she’d be doing now when she was a young singer first starting out, but life has a way of carving its own unexpected path — and so does love.

“There’s something beautiful in all of that,” Knapp says. “That’s why we call it love. And if it weren’t hard sometimes, we wouldn’t appreciate the beauty. And if it weren’t beautiful, we wouldn’t be willing to keep going through the hard parts.

While trading songs at a songwriter gathering in Nashville, TN, Idaho native and high school teacher David Robert King's boneyard truth telling, worn and vulnerable voice, and magnetic melodies were overheard by legendary singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier who told King "I have a feeling we will get together someday." This speculation led to King and Gauthier gracing stages throughout North America. David has also shared the stage with Josh Ritter, The Mark O'Connor Band, Tim O'Brien, Loudon Wainwright III, Darrell Scott, and Over The Rhine, and has collaborated with Emily Saliers of The Indigo Girls and Jonatha Brooke.

King's dark, sometimes humorous songs, are unapologetically personal while grounded in the arid soil of his native Idaho. His songs reverberate with the sting of the high desert wind and the hidden power of the Snake River. This combination led to a top 40 song on folk and roots radio, wide critical acclaim, and featured spots at the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN and 2018 30A Festival. He is currently recording a new album with producer Darryl Neudorf (Neko Case, Sarah McLachlan, Blue Rodeo) due out in 2018.

Jennifer Knapp and David Robert King will be performing at The Red Clay Music Foundry on Saturday, September 29th at 8pm. You can get tickets at www.eddieowenpresents.com or by calling our Box Office at (404) 478- 2749.