Mississippi Blues Pianist Eden Brent at The Stage
By WTJU
Date: 07/23/2024
Time: 1:30 pm
Mississippi Blues Pianist Eden Brent will stop by WTJU this Tuesday afternoon for a live session during the final half hour of the Eclectic Woman show. She is currently touring behind her first release (out now on Yellow Dog Records) in over a decade.
This is a free event, open to all. You can also listen on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it at WTJU’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. But concerts always sound better with you as part of the studio audience. WTJU is located at 2244 Ivy Rd in Charlottesville, right next door to Vivace. There is plenty of parking.
Mississippi Delta native Eden Brent is a modern-day piano-pounding, juke-joint hollering powerhouse of American music. A legendary performer and southern songwriter , she spent the first two decades of her career under the tutelage of Abie “Boogaloo” Ames, before winning the Blues Foundation’ s Blues Challenge and bouncing onto the international scene. Since then she has accrued awards and accolades galore, including three Blues Music A ward wins, a prestigious Mississippi Arts Commission Folk Arts Fellowship, a featured performance on NPR’ s Weekend Edition, and a million streams for her classic-in-the-making original, “Better This W ay .” A performer at heart, Eden plays clubs, concerts and festivals like the down-home Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale and the epic New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. She travels to faraway events like Blues in Hell, Norway and Sighisoara Blues Festival in Romania. She frequently hosts the Piano Bar aboard the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise and is the featured guest at V iking Mississippi River Cruises dock parties, appearances recalling her river roots. Her new album Getaway Blues , a collaboration with her UK-born life and musical partner Bob Dowell, presents nine original songs recorded in London with a four-piece band and will be of ficially released June 21st, 2024 by Yellow Dog Records. Laid down in London. Mixed up in Memphis (by Matt Ross-Spang). Made in Mississippi.
