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Live From New Orleans The Jazz Foundation of America Presents: Rainy Eyes Band
January 25, 2023
Jazz Museum | Free - Weekly
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Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:
January 25th, 2023:
Rainy Eyes Band Swampy Folk Americana featuring Irena Eide (songwriter/vocals/guitar), Ethan Brasseaux (drums), Chris Stafford (electric guitar), Ian Guidroz (bass)
Rainy Eyes - Swampy Folk Americana Rainy Eyes (Irena Eide) is a Norwegian-born Americana singer-songwriter. She has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade and just recently re-located to Louisiana. Rainy Eyes has been writing music, performing and touring throughout the US for the past decade.. Both solo and with a band, her performances have a spellbinding, inspiring effect and a soulful, heartfelt and timeless sound with tight-knit harmonies, melodious solos, and thoughtful songwriting. Rainy Eyes 2nd solo album is set to release in 2022, recorded by Jeremy D’Antonio and Dirk Powell. Mixed, mastered, co-produced and featuring Dirk Powell as well as local Louisianan musicians such as Ric Robertson, Eric Adcock, Chris Stafford, Bill Smith, Gina Leslie, as well as Phoebe Hunt, Sam Grisman and more. Rainy Eyes has played with legendary artists such as Joan Baez, Willie Watson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peter Rowan, Dirk Powell, Laurie Lewis and many more. She has opened for bands and artists such as Willie Watson, Patterson Hood, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peter Rowan, Jackie Greene, Laurie Lewis, Jon Cleary, Hubby Jenkins and played prominent stages and festivals such as HIPNIC (Big Sur), The Chapel (San Francisco), Hotel Cafe (Los Angeles), Triple Door (Seattle) Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley), Terrapin Crossroads (San Rafael), Moe’s Alley (Santa Cruz) Henry Miller Library (Big Sur), Ashkenaz (Berkeley), Freight and Salvage (Berkeley), Far West Fest (Point Reyes), SXSW (Austin), Sonoma Mountain Music Festival (Petaluma), Lagunitas Brewing Company (Seattle), UC Berkeley Redwood Summer Concert Series, Sweetwater Music Festival, Axe and Fiddle (Eugene), Sam Bonds Garage (Eugene) and many more. Rainy Eyes also won "best song of the month" at the Freight and Salvage West Coast Songwriters competition in April 2015 for her song "Moon In The Mirror", and has co-written two songs with Grammy-award winning Peter Rowan. These songs were featured on her solo debut album released August 2019. Her debut album, Moon In The Mirror, was produced by Eli West (Cahalen Morrison and Eli West) who plays banjo, guitar and sings harmonies, and features Amy Scher on fiddle and harmonies, Irena Eide on guitar and lead vocals and Peter Rowan on harmonies, as well as Danny Vitali on bass.
Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:
January 25th, 2023:
Rainy Eyes Band Swampy Folk Americana featuring Irena Eide (songwriter/vocals/guitar), Ethan Brasseaux (drums), Chris Stafford (electric guitar), Ian Guidroz (bass)
Rainy Eyes - Swampy Folk Americana Rainy Eyes (Irena Eide) is a Norwegian-born Americana singer-songwriter. She has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade and just recently re-located to Louisiana. Rainy Eyes has been writing music, performing and touring throughout the US for the past decade.. Both solo and with a band, her performances have a spellbinding, inspiring effect and a soulful, heartfelt and timeless sound with tight-knit harmonies, melodious solos, and thoughtful songwriting. Rainy Eyes 2nd solo album is set to release in 2022, recorded by Jeremy D’Antonio and Dirk Powell. Mixed, mastered, co-produced and featuring Dirk Powell as well as local Louisianan musicians such as Ric Robertson, Eric Adcock, Chris Stafford, Bill Smith, Gina Leslie, as well as Phoebe Hunt, Sam Grisman and more. Rainy Eyes has played with legendary artists such as Joan Baez, Willie Watson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peter Rowan, Dirk Powell, Laurie Lewis and many more. She has opened for bands and artists such as Willie Watson, Patterson Hood, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peter Rowan, Jackie Greene, Laurie Lewis, Jon Cleary, Hubby Jenkins and played prominent stages and festivals such as HIPNIC (Big Sur), The Chapel (San Francisco), Hotel Cafe (Los Angeles), Triple Door (Seattle) Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley), Terrapin Crossroads (San Rafael), Moe’s Alley (Santa Cruz) Henry Miller Library (Big Sur), Ashkenaz (Berkeley), Freight and Salvage (Berkeley), Far West Fest (Point Reyes), SXSW (Austin), Sonoma Mountain Music Festival (Petaluma), Lagunitas Brewing Company (Seattle), UC Berkeley Redwood Summer Concert Series, Sweetwater Music Festival, Axe and Fiddle (Eugene), Sam Bonds Garage (Eugene) and many more. Rainy Eyes also won "best song of the month" at the Freight and Salvage West Coast Songwriters competition in April 2015 for her song "Moon In The Mirror", and has co-written two songs with Grammy-award winning Peter Rowan. These songs were featured on her solo debut album released August 2019. Her debut album, Moon In The Mirror, was produced by Eli West (Cahalen Morrison and Eli West) who plays banjo, guitar and sings harmonies, and features Amy Scher on fiddle and harmonies, Irena Eide on guitar and lead vocals and Peter Rowan on harmonies, as well as Danny Vitali on bass.