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Friday 9:30pm

OFOAM has a tradition at the Ogden Valley Roots and Blues Festival of showing our roots on Friday night. The HillBenders in 2013, The Black Lillies in 2014 and 2015 will be no exception as we're excited to present The Brothers Comatose!

"The simple fact is that James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation..." - Stephen King | Entertainment Weekly

James McMurtry is an American rock and folk-rock/Americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove). He performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread, and Tim Holt.

OFOAM & the Egyptian Theater Foundation are bringing Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones to Ogden not only to provide great music but to support the preservation of Ogden’s beautiful Peery’s Egyptian Theater, one of only a handful of Egyptian Theaters still standing, one of two existing “atmospheric” ceilings that currently exist, and Utah’s only remaining bona-fide Movie Palace. The building façade needs repairs, from the leaking canopy, to the plaster damaged exterior and columns.

Repairs will be accomplished with the oversight and approval of Ogden’s Historic Society. Plans are underway for the repairs and we need your help! A portion of our ticket sales ($18 adv./$20 day of) and any direct donations will be put to work to continue Ogden’s love affair with this beautiful venue. For tickets and more information visit the Peery's Egyptian Theater website.

Dave Alvin has been receiving critical acclaim for his song tracks on the popular TV show “Justified”. He was picked by the show’s music supervisor because Dave’s voice was the voice that he felt would be playing in the main character’s head.

"Alvin headlined opening night for the Ogden Music Festival three years ago, playing in a folk duo with Chris Miller. Miller and Alvin will be plugged in with their full band, The Guilty Ones, (Brad Fordham and Lisa Pankratz round out the band) for the Egyptian show.

“You know Dave likes to say there is soft folk music and loud folk music, and he likes to play both,” said Michelle Tanner, founder of OFOAM. “With this Egyptian show, we’re having him back to Ogden to play the loud kind.”" Linda Brady, Ogden Standard-Examiner

"Dave Alvin is steeped in Americana – not just the genre but a deep river of American myth that keeps giving him characters to write about. Former guitarist for roots heroes the Blasters, Alvin fills his 11th album with small towns, highways and losers we imagine he’s encountered on countless tours. Though Alvin has often switched between electric and acoustic, almost everything here is plugged in – above all Alvin, an underrecognized guitar hero. Two songs are addictive: the tear-jerker "Black Rose of Texas" and "Johnny Ace Is Dead," a tragicomedy powered by Steve Mugalian's backbeat and Alvins' burning Strat." Rolling Stone

Back by popular demand and a only a few weeks before they grace the stage at the 40th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the darlings of last year's Ogden Music Festival, Elephant Revival returns! Brought together by a unified sense of purpose - the spirit of five souls working as one, in harmony, creating sounds they could never produce alone.

"Working in Shifts" was born in informal jam sessions in living rooms, on patios and around campfires covering Dylan, The Dead and The Stones with an acoustic guitar, a banjo and a lead singer who has consumed bucketfuls of gravel, both vocally and metaphorically in life. On a ski weekend in Grand Targhee, Wyoming, they met a slap-happy stand-up bass player who morphed them into a rockabilly machine that takes folk, Americana, rock, country and their own originals, and turns them all into something that feels like Ogden, Utah...the place that Al Capone once said was a bit too wild for his taste.

The Royal We is a group of music lovers that have a great deal of fun together on stage and it shows. Their influences range from pop, country, blues, soul and funk and their performances include harmonies from two female leads that have been singing together for over a decade.

Young in age and conception, Elephant Revival carries a fresh sense of creativity and inspiration that is felt by people of every generation. The neo-acoustic quintet is on the cutting edge of an emerging new genre that is known as 'Transcendental Folk.'

"Whiskey-whistling alt-country avant-folk shot through with flecks of jazz, punk rock and heartstring-plucking Americana." – Flavorpill

Leslie and the Badgers is a Los Angeles-based folk-country band that formed in 2006 by the beautiful lead singer and songwriter Leslie Stevens, formerly of the punk band Zeitgeist Auto Parts. They released their self-titled debut album in 2007, which is currently out of print. Five songs from their debut became the EP Greetings from.... in 2008. Their latest release Roomful of Smoke was produced by David Bianco (Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Tift Merritt). The Los Angeles Times said Leslie Stevens' voice and writing evokes Patsy Cline while No Depression wrote that Leslie Stevens' soothing voice calls to mind Emmylou Harris.