Saturday, February 24th.
Doors Open: 5PM
Ella Drury: 6PM
Maddie Mae: 7PM
Tickets: $18 (40 presale) $22 day of
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Join us as we welcome Maddi Mae to the Giffin Stage at The River House!
Maddi Mae is a folk songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Owner of Sound House in Remington, VA.
Brought up among the Blue Ridge Mountains in a four-person evangelical cult of sorts, Maddi Mae found her own salvation in songwriting. She got her start as a five-year-old country gospel guitarist/singer/songwriter and spent a dozen years putting her “God-given gifts” to good use in valley churches. Home abuse turned to teenage homelessness, and Maddi spent the next decade in a state of shock, unravelling years of brain-washing and trauma. With no god, no kinfolk, and no answers, she turned back to songwriting. For Maddi, songwriting is prayer – but these prayers answer themselves.
A decade into making her living off of music alone, Maddi Mae has played over 500 shows – solo and as a member of psychedelic and folk rock bands. In September 2020, she released her debut six-song record called Quiet Corners, recorded with Kyle Millers of the band Tow’rs.
Ella Drury has been onstage for the vast majority of her 18 years on earth. Since childhood, she has participated in music, theatre, and practically any other art form she could find a way to get involved in. She started writing songs seriously at age 14, more out of necessity than desire, as she found the medium to be a phenomenal method of catharsis. Since then she has grown both in stature and in skill, and her desire to share her art with others has become too great to stifle. Ella creates simplistic, lyric-driven melodies which she pens, sings, and plays herself.
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