WoodSongs Dalton Concert Series To Feature Ray Cardwell With Micahlan Boney To Open

  • Friday, March 22, 2019

The WoodSongs Dalton 2019 Concert Series will host Ray Cardwell and Tennessee Moon with Micahlan Boney to open at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 30 at The Wink Theater in downtown Dalton. 

Advance tickets for the March concert are available at the Dalton Freight Depot Gift Shop, The Ice Castle, Bigham Discount Music, online at www.woodsongsdalton.com, and at the door. Advance tickets are $18 and $22 at the door.

The concert series features emerging and established performers of Americana, country, and bluegrass music, whose performances also benefit local non-profits. Many of the performers over the years have been Grammy nominees and recipients and most have received recognition for their talents by the International Bluegrass Music Association and SPGBMA. The concert series will be held at the Wink Theater, 115 Crawford St. in the heart of downtown Dalton. WoodSongs Dalton is sponsored in part by Friends of WoodSongs, area businesses and the Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the DEO Clinic, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit medical clinic that provides medical care to low income uninsured individuals. Proceeds up to $2,500 will be matched by Modern Woodmen of America to benefit DEO Clinic. 

For further information, check out WoodSongs Dalton on Facebook or call 706-581-8025.

About Ray Cardwell:

Ray Cardwell is one of the most diversely talented artists playing bluegrass music today, with a broad array of interests and influences. Born into a musical family, Ray grew up in the Cardwell Family Band, performing on a variety of stages, including the Mountain Folks Music Festival at Silver Dollar City, Fort of the Osage, Dogpatch USA, and various concerts hosted by Ozarks musicologist, Max Hunter. In addition to the bass guitar, Ray is also an accomplished keyboardist, sax player, and vocalist with a five octave range. He was a founding member of the Midwest bluegrass band Slick Nickel and recorded two albums with the critically acclaimed national touring gospel band New Tradition. Ray also performed with National Honor Choirs at both the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall when he was working on his degree in music education.

His CD entitled Tennessee Moon on Pinecastle Records was received with high praise with ten songs charting on Bluegrass, Americana and Folk Charts. Time To Drive is the first single release from Ray's upcoming CD due out in the winter of 2019. The single was released on March 16, 2018.  It debuted at number one on the Bluegrass Today Grassicana Chart.  It was in the weekly top 15 for over 30 weeks, seven of those weeks it remained at number one.

About Micahlan Boney:

Micahlan Boney has performed in eleven states, solo and as part of various bands. Micahlan began performing on fiddle with her older brother at the age of eight and writing songs.  She added the guitar, mandolin and banjo in the following years. In October 2018,  Micahlan moved to Nashville, to work with Kent Wells, producer for Dolly Parton, Vince Gill and Emmy Lou Harris, and Dark Horse Studios to record her first EP and work on several music projects. 

In 2017, Micahlan won the Savannah Country Music Showdown in a duo with John Brown, and she  also  won the John Hartford Memorial Songwriting Contest in Bean Blossom, Indiana.  She was the youngest person and to date the only female to have ever won the songwriting contest.

 

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