Victor Wainwright
"The Piana From Savannah," acclaimed 2019 Grammy-nominated American Roots artist Victor Wainwright and the Train, are on tour, with a local performance at a free Nightfall Concert Series at Miller Plaza, 850 Market St. on Friday, Aug. 4 at 7 p.m.
For information, call 423-265-0771 or visit https://www.nightfallchattanooga.com.
About the artist:
The powerhouse boogie-woogie/Americana pianist-vocalist-producer is a seven time Grammy-Nominated Blues Music Award winner, including Band of the Year and BB King Entertainer of the Year.
Most recently, he also won the 2022 Blues Blast Music Award in the category for piano, and was nominated by the 2022 Living Blues Awards in two categories: Most Outstanding Musician (keyboard); and Best Live Performer. Several times during his career, Wainwright has reached the #1 spot on the Top 10 U.S. Billboard chart.
Though his career began over a decade ago with genuine rock n’ roll honky-tonk, Wainwright has broadened his artistic scope over the years to include music representing virtually every corner of the roots music world. His insatiable interest in music discovery, sheer love for entertaining and curiosity have led him all around the world, and the resulting perspective is a reflection of his passion for entertaining and creating progressive roots music in an effort to move the art-form forward. Composer, producer, vocalist, and award wining entertainer and piano player; Victor Wainwright is a raucous high-octane, dynamic performer and crowd pleaser with soul to spare.
The name of Victor Wainwright’s band – and the sleeve image of their albums – is also the most fitting of metaphors. In music folklore, the train might have associations with the freight-hopping bluesmen of yore, but with this restless boogie-woogie innovator stoking the furnace, Wainwright is a charging locomotive – surging forward, crashing through boundaries of genre, sweeping up fresh sounds and clattering headlong past the doubters.
Victor Wainwright and the Train