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Charlie Ballantine Trio

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Charlie Ballantine swings by the store with his bassist, Quinn Sternberg, and drummer Chris Parker for an intimate show.

An arc of mystery and music stretches across America like a vein of gold, an eternal blue highway that grows mired in fable as time both adds to and erases it. What Greil Marcus called “the old, weird America” can be heard in the music of Robert Johnson and Santo and Johnny and Tammy Wynette and Duane Allman, from the dark underbelly birthed in New Orleans that extends across the plains from Bakersfield, California, to Macon, Georgia; from Roscoe Holcomb’s “high lonesome sound” to Bob Dylan’s “wild mercury sound.” And it can most definitely be heard in the reflective, lightning-flash-of-brilliance that is the music of 29-year-old Charlie Ballantine.


Enjoy a virtual front row seat to some of Bop Shop Records’ hottest performances of the past on Jazz90.1 WGMC in Rochester, NY. “Bop Shop Live” is hosted by Dan Gross.

Earlier Event: June 15
Bob Sneider & Bill Dobbins
Later Event: August 22
Michael Sarian (2021)