Schedule
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 2024 AT 11:15 PM (JUKE JOINT SHOW - Sheridan Opera House)
Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 2:00 - 3:00 pm (Main Stage)
To get a sense of the depth and beauty of Hiss Golden Messenger’s music, it helps to burrow into singer-songwriter, MC Taylor’s psyche. This passage, written by MC might help. “I have dedicated every day to song. I have been traveling all my life. And I understand that I am so lucky, and I am thankful. Money is easy enough to find if you want it bad enough; but art, true deep art full of grace that shakes and terrifies the soul, is an elusive spirit and damn near impossible to come by. So sitting in this sunny backyard at the end of this journey that I took with my friends and family, everyone that I love and some of whom did not even realize they were on this trip, I’m thinking: We found it. Goddammit, everybody: We found it. And that’s a rare feeling indeed.”
Hiss’ latest record, Jump For Joy, is an outing as upbeat as the title implies, rife with insightful songs, MC’s poetic lyricism, and imbued with a Steely Dan-like shimmer. When Hiss played here in 2019, the music pulled the crowd under its spell. It was an amazing thing to behold, 8,000 people, rapt and swaying. Let’s return to the magic.