WILDER WOODS - FEVER/SKY TOUR

Doors 6:30pm / Show 7:30pm 

Tickets: $31 adv/$36 dos (plus sales tax and service fee)

$1.00 per ticket sold goes to the Artist’s Charity.

18+ Valid ID required for entry into venue / Under 18 permitted with parent (Accepted forms of ID: State Issued ID or Driver's License, Military ID, Passport.)

WILDER WOODS

Indie / Folk / Southern Soul

Bear Rinehart unveiled Wilder Woods in 2019, releasing a neo-soul record that focused on new beginnings: the advent of fatherhood, the launch of his solo career, and the updated branding of a longtime bandleader who'd decided to expand his reach. With FEVER / SKY, he widens Wilder Woods' cinematic sound while celebrating the parts of himself that made him most proud. It's a personal, poignant record whose songs focus not upon the horizon ahead, but upon the road itself, stacked high with heartland hooks, western wooziness, southern soul, and festival-worthy anthems.

"I've been in a band for 20 years, and a band is a democracy where you make decisions together," explains Rinehart, who also fronts the Grammy-nominated, chart-topping band NEEDTOBREATHE. "Wilder Woods is a different outlet. I'm giving myself the freedom to do what I want to do and say what I want to say. This isn't the kind of journey where I'm worried about the places I'm headed or the places I've left; it's a journey where I'm just happy to be in the car, driving forward."

Created alongside producer Cason Cooley, guitarist Tyler Burkum, and a small group of collaborators, FEVER / SKY brims with the insights of a family man and road warrior who's spent two decades on tour, balancing his art with his commitments at home.

Opener: ABRAHAM ALEXANDER

When Abraham Alexander unspools hisextraordinary life story, it becomes clear that he should always trust hisinstincts. Each time he has, something unknowable but amazing has happened for him.

Born in Greece, where he spent the earlypart of his life with the Acropolis as his playground, Abraham was transplantedto Texas in the early 2000s at 11 years old to escape the ever presentracial tension of his birthplace. Adopted in Texas after losing hismother in a car accident with a drunk driver, Abrahambecame a sports nut who excelled on the pitch and had first set his sightson a career in soccer. A torn ACL sidelined those ambitions but opened thedoor to a new path. A friend handed him a guitar during this downtime, and,without warning, his soul was unlocked.

Songs he did not know that he had in himpoured out. A series of increasingly incredible chance meetings — including a life-changing encounter withLeon Bridges — led him to nurture this newfound musical voraciousness.Those roads have converged on his forthcoming album Sea/Sons, out on Dualtone Records in 2023.

Co-produced by Alexander with the help ofseveral folks including Matt Pence and Brad Cook, the album is a lush, seductiveaffair that showcases the 31-year-old singer-songwriter’s beguiling voice— onewhich offers both honey and grit— and supple acoustic guitar work. The 11tracks on Sea/Sons display a coolassuredness even as the songs themselves play with themes of loss, redemption,longing, anguish, and joy informed by a complex life of love and pain. There isa refreshing genre fluidity at play as elements of folk, pop, rock, R&B,gospel, and even electronic music meld and tangle. Ineffable backing vocals,sparse but rich arrangements, and a sense of emotional purpose draw the musicalthreads together into a cohesive whole that is simultaneously warm andcool. 

From open mics in Fort Worth, TX to recentstints on the road opening for Leon Bridges, Ani DiFranco, and Mavis Staples —an instructive trinity for his sound — Alexander is ready for the headliningspotlight and to articulate what many of us are feeling with Sea/Sons.