The Nightfall Concert Series continues Friday with the soulful sounds of headliner Selwyn Birchwood Band, preceded by local opener Marlow Drive.
Presented and produced by Chattanooga Presents, this 19-week free outdoor concert series is held every Friday at Miller Plaza and features headline performances by a broad spectrum of music performed by national and international artists.
Review for Selwyn Birchwood Band:
Behind the unvarnished vocals and killer guitar skills is Selwyn Birchwood, a musically gifted bundle of pure energy. He plays high-octane blues – at once deeply rooted, funky and up-to-the-minute – with true passion and honest emotion, while his original songs range from raucous romps to hill country stomps, from searing, serious slow blues to modern blues rock.
The band features veteran musicians older than Selwyn, testifying to Selwyn’s musical chops and his leadership skills. On stage, they play off each other with ease, feeding each other energy, and sharing the fun with the audience.
With Birchwood’s warm, magnetic personality, he is as down-to-earth as his music is fun. His mission is to spread his music far and wide, to share his joy, to play his heart out, and to push the blues into the future.
“There’s nothing I’d rather be doing than playing the blues,” he says. “And I try to convey that with every song and with every performance.”
Marlow Drive is a Chattanooga-based band whose genre varies between southern rock and high-energy blues band. You would be selling the band, and its fans, short if you tried to place them into a single genre.
Although Marlow Drive’s musical influences run the gamut from funk, hard rock, country, to soul and jam, their roots run deep into Southern soil. Members include Skip Cistco (guitar/vocals), Brandon Fitzsimmons (drums), Jody Swygert (bass), Chip Ables (guitar/vocals), Mitch Wood (percussion), and Brett Nolan (keyboard).
Food trucks and non-alcoholic drink concessions are available on site at Nightfall. However, no outside food or beverages are allowed to be brought in to the event.
For more information on this free community concert series, call 265-0771 or visit NightfallChattanooga.com for a complete, interactive website that includes music samples by each headliner, as well as other information for first-time attendees.