Stay Down Pretty Polly
Friday December 11
7:30pm
$10 in advance, $12 at door
(discount for those that dress formally: this is after all a ball)
Crosstown Station
Passion .. Love .. Revenge .. Murder ..
Join us in this unique celebration of a sub genre of classic Americana .. the Murder Ballad.
Special lighting production as well as stage props set the ambiance for a night of story telling through song of forlorn lovers, of deceit, of passion, of murder!! The nights performers will weave tales newly told and tell again of Long Black Veils, Knoxville Girls, or of old Tom Dooley.
- Tiny Horse (Chris Meck & Abigail Henderson of The Gaslights)
- Tony Ladesich (formerly of Pendergast)
- Betse Ellis (Fiddle for The Wilders) with Mark Smeltzer (Rural Grit All-Stars)
- American Catastrophe
- Cadillac Flambe
- The Columns
- Patrick Deveny (of Jaykco Guitar Straps)
- TinHorn Molly
- Whiskey Breath
- The Penny Sheets (members of The Sons of Great Dane, Hot Dog Skeletons, & Elkheart)
- Special live performance piece by Cody Wyoming (Kansas City Actor & Musician)
We are also proud to announce that portions of every ticket sold will benefit the Midwest Music Foundation and our efforts to build a Kansas City Musicians Health Care Fund. In addition, there will also be a silent auction & raffles to benefit the fund as well.
- CDs and posters “The Executioners Last Songs” autographed by Jon Langford
Bloodshot Records - Book “Nashville Radio” autographed by Jon Langford
http://www.jonlangford.de - Jaykco Guitar Straps
Special thanks goes out to Kris Bruders of Cadillac Flambe & Nathaniel “Dutch” Humphrey of Crosstown Station for dreaming this up, putting it together, and including the Midwest Music Foundation. It’s going to be a killer of a night!
