LORI MCKENNA with Special Guest MARK ERELLI: Main Stage
It is not often we hear one song and say aloud “we have to have this artist.” That is just what happened when we popped in Lori McKenna’s latest CD. Then we kept listening and it just got better and better. Her voice is not just believable it commands your attention from the get go and the lyrics are some of the most brutally honest and stirring that we have ever heard. It is no wonder that Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have recorded her songs and appear as backup singers on her recordings, with her latest effort also produced by Tim. Lori’s lyrics paint vivid word pictures of moments and characters so real you see them without error in your mind’s eye. It is fair to say that Lori is one of those performers that truly stir an audience into a group consciousness where you know everyone around you is feeling the same thing. Opening the show and joining Lori is the talented multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Mark Erelli.