KC TURNER PRESENTS 

Carsie Blanton 

Susan Werner

11th Annual COOKOUT CONCERT SERIES

Sponsored by JAMBAR

HopMonk Novato Outdoor Venue
DOORS: 4:30pm | SHOW: 6pm
$30 ADVANCE | $35 DAY OF SHOW

MOSTLY SEATED ON GROUND LEVEL

LIMITED SEATING ON LAWN & TOP OF HILL

ALL AGES

NO REFUNDS | ALL SALES FINAL
Tickets: After completing your purchase on See Tickets, you will receive an email confirmation with your attached PDF ticket(s). You MUST print and bring your PDF tickets AND VALID PHOTO IDENTIFICATION to be admitted for the event. You may download the See Tickets app and show your ticket on your mobile device for entry in lieu of printing. Event is rain or shine.

EVENT INFO:
NO PETS
NO COOLERS
NO BACKPACKS
NO OUTSIDE FOOD
NO UMBRELLAS
NO SMOKING
EMPTY WATER BOTTLES OK

-FAQs-

Q: Is this show outdoors?
A: Yes. This event is held in HopMonk Novato's outdoor concert venue.

Q: Are kids allowed?
A: The shows are all ages. Kids need a ticket to attend. No babies in arms.

Q: Is there seating?
A: Seating is limited and is first come. You're allowed a LOW-BACK chair in the lawn section. At the top of the hillside section there is table seating that is first come. We recommend arriving at the time doors open. Some shows are open dance floor/standing room only while others are mostly seated. Varies from show to show.

Q: Is there parking?
A: Parking is free and there is plenty of it.

ABOUT:

CARSIE BLANTON:

Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. Inspired by artist-activists including Nina Simone and Woody Guthrie, her catalog careens through American popular song from folk and swing to pop-punk protest anthems. 

With her unique mix of humor, soul, and political wit, and fifteen-plus years on the road, Blanton has amassed a dedicated fan base and a small menagerie of viral hits (Rich People, Shit List, Fishin’ With You). Her forthcoming album After the Revolution, produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester, is slated for release in March of 2024.

SUSAN WERNER:

Susan Werner plays and writes an almost impossibly wide range of music, but what ties it all together is her love of language, her passionate intensity, and an unshakable commitment to the stories she tells in song. Michael Feinstein calls her “that rarest of things – a composer who not only adheres to the traditions of the Great American Songbook, but also who adds great new songs to that Songbook with each project she writes. She’s one of the most exciting talents in the country.” “When it comes to crafting a song,” says the website No Depression, her “only peers are Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon.” Susan started in opera, moved to folk, explored jazz and pop, hit classical, gospel, and country rock, and is now going back to her roots with her tenth and latest album, Hayseed, which digs deep into the field of American farming.

She grew up on a hog farm in eastern Iowa, earned a Master’s in voice at Temple, and was devoted to opera until she heard Nanci Griffith at a club in Philadelphia. “She was singing – her own songs about her home, Texas,” Susan told the Boston Herald. “I realized it was as noble, as honorable as classical singing. And I thought I could do this!” After recording five albums in the folk vein, she channeled the songwriting spirits of George Gershwin and Cole Porter in I Can’t Be New, an album of originals that aspire to become standards. The Gospel Truth is her foray into “agnostic gospel,” and Classics, recorded with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, offers her classical-pop take on hits like “Mercy Mercy Me” and “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Her 2011 album, Kicking the Beehive, produced in Nashville by Rodney Crowell and featuring guests like Vince Gill and Keb’ Mo’, showcases her country rock side with a little twang and a lot of attitude – “I keep kickin’ the beehive and I know I’ll never learn.” With Hayseed, she comes full circle, taking what she learned on the hog farm and working out from there to scrutinize and celebrate the world of American farmers.