Marty’s voice is beautiful and unique, his lyrics stark yet lush over gritty electrified guitar, melding beautifully into genre-defying music within the vast definitions of Americana. One can hear an urgency and complexity in the songs, expressing something elemental and perhaps contradictory: love and anger, joy and pain, real and imagined.
The live performance is at the core of Marty’s projects. On stage, whether accompanied by a band, or alone, he enters a trance and the music is born again as something new every night. It’s what his followers call “magic”. He goes from raw gospel blues to cinematic epics, from heavy driving grooves to delicately arranged folk songs.
Calvin Arsenia is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Kansas City, Missouri. He first gained widespread recognition for his soulful vocals and virtuosic classical harp playing, which he often incorporates into his live performances. Arsenia’s music has been described as a blend of folk, pop, and R&B, and he continues to use his gift of music to draw bridges of empathy between communities separated by race, class, gender, or religion.
