Bryan McPherson and Kat Heart live at Sassafras this Saturday
Don't miss the return of international touring artist Bryan McPherson to Sassafras on Saturday, Sept. 25 in Carson City. Bryan brings an intensity to the stage like you've never experienced before. Bryan has performed with The Dropkick Murphys, Cory Branan, Chuck Berry, members of Fugazi, and many others.
Joining Bryan is Nevada's very own Kat Heart. This is sure to be a memorable evening of powerful emotional singer/songwriters. Show starts at 6:30pm at Sassafras in Carson City. All ages welcome. Free!
McPherson grew up in Dorchester, a working class neighborhood in Boston, MA. He played his first gigs busking in Boston's subway system, Harvard Square, and later at the esteemed Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. McPherson's origin and background characterized many of his early songs, such as O.F.D. ("Originally From Dorchester") or Poor Boy from his first album Fourteen Stories (2007). Fourteen Stories featured a variety of Boston area musicians backing him up, including Woody Giessman of The Del Fuegos.
Following an opening slot for Chuck Berry at Berklee Performance Center in 2008, McPherson moved from Boston to the Bay Area and started working on his second album. In American Boy / American Girl, Bryan captured the zeitgeist of the U.S. financial crisis and its aftermath in songs like Worker's Song or I See A Flag. After his involvement in the Occupy Oakland protests in 2011 where he performed alongside Amanda Palmer, Boots Riley and Michael Moore, he started to tour across the country, basically only equipped with his van, his guitar and harmonica. His many stopovers, some of them in Canada, offered McPherson a new perspective and inspired some songs of his third album Wedgewood, which was released in 2015.
In 2014, McPherson gained international popularity as a supporting act of the Boston band the Dropkick Murphys on their Celtic Punk Invasion Tour in North America and Europe. A cancelled appearance at the House of Blues in Anaheim caused a stir when McPherson informed his fans that he was banned for his "anti-political police views and drug insinuation" by Disney, who owned the venue.
In the summer of 2018, McPherson started to work on a new album based on unreleased songs that he wrote many years ago. A successful crowdfunding project allowed him to release an LP vinyl record version as well as two CD versions (including a Live Takes version) of Kings Corner. McPherson also produced a video of one of the featured songs, Ghost of My Hometown. Go here for his website: http://www.bryanmcpherson.com/
Kat Heart is a soulful and expressive artist, musician and vocalist, who breaks the bounds of what you expect when you hear the phrase “singer-songwriter”. Her voice is powerful and raw, full of smoke and honey in equal measure, and accompanied by electric guitar skills not often seen from other artists in the ring. Her writings transcend every genre, her voice malleable and changing from one song to the next. Just when you think you’ve heard all she has to say, she comes back with something else unexpected. With a personality that rings true to her name, and an open honesty that charms and connects, she is one artist you surely don’t want to miss.