Doors 6:30PM / Show 7:30PM
Fully seated show
General Admission Seating: $45ADV / $50DOS
Front Row Seating: $60ADV / $65 DOS
Three decades and some 400 songs later, a collection of pointedly funny and pointedly poignant songs
In 1976, Jeff Daniels bought a Guild D-40 from Herb David’s Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, threw it in the back of his old Buick, and moved to New York City. That guitar led to a creative outlet, became a solace, a road into the artist that he didn’t know existed. Now, over 40 years later, he’s still writing songs, singing them, and playing.
“The man can sing, the man can play the guitar, the man can write a song.”
Bio:
Well, mostly I act and whatever I did must have worked because I’m doing it more now than in any decade of my career which is not how they draw it up in Star School. In 1976, I drove to New York City to learn everything I didn’t know, achieving just enough success along the way to inch my way up the Serious Actor Ladder. As my career marched on, I appeared in over seventy films, numerous television shows, returned again and again to the theatre, and am currently riding a string of once in a lifetime roles in NEWSROOM, GODLESS, LOOMING TOWER, THE COMEY RULE and a year long run on Broadway as Atticus Finch in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
Much as I love acting, however, I don’t do it every day. The only thing I do every day, the only thing I want to do, the only thing I have to do, is play my acoustic guitar. Back in ’76, I bought a Guild D-40, tossed it into the backseat of a beat up Buick and chased a dream. I had no idea I was bringing along my best friend. The one I would need, the one I would turn to, the one I would rely on. And now, decades later, the one who knows what I’m all about.
Sometimes I’m asked if I’ll ever write a book and I always answer that I already have. It’s in my songs.
— Jeff Daniels
Whitney Mann
As a girl, Whitney Mann dreamed of a life in Country music. “I daydreamed all day, every day, of singing songs that I wrote in front of thousands of people,” she says. At the age of four, she began writing her own songs, and two decades later she realized her version of success by opening shows for legends like Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Loretta Lynn on big country stages and in theaters throughout the Midwest.
Whitney put down her guitar to raise a family. But songwriting is in her bones. It’s an itch that will perpetually need to be scratched. Her old songs are about love and truth and heartbreak. And to listen to her new material, you’ll realize that she’s stayed true to form – except now she’s looking for a fight.
Has appeared on:
National Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television
Has shared stages with:
Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Ray LaMontagne, Guy Clark, Secret Sisters, Joe Pug, Corb Lund, and more
Has played at festivals:
SXSW, Madison Roots, WMSE Radio Summer Camp, Summerfest, Country Throwdown, Mile of Music, and more!