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The Shaking Ray Levi Society proudly presents…

Vermont musicians Matt Valentine and Erika Elder (The MV & EE Medicine Show)
with Chattanooga’s very own Shaking Ray Levis
and Atlanta's Pony Law
at Lamar’s (1020 M.L.King Blvd)
on Thursday, July 22 at 9pm.
for $4 (SRLS members) or $5 (non-members)

About Matt Valentine and Erika Elder:

Emerging from the forests of Vermont, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder create a sound that has been described as “…a mystic, opiated journey through the sounds of the American Civil War, Hindu ceremonies, Scottish folklore, and rural Indonesia.” (Contemporary Magazine) Falling under the growing ‘Free Folk’ genre, Valentine and Elder utilize traditional elements in inventive ways, such that their sound can be simultaneously described as folk, psychedelic, tribal and delicate. Six-string guitars and percussion variously combine with flute, harmonium and tablas to create a uniquely layered sound. Valentine and Elder recently performed at the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival in Vermont along with other ‘folk revivalists’ Sunburned Hand of the Man, Thurston Moore, Charalambides, and Son of Earth.

Valentine was originally the brains and guts behind NY's Tower Recordings, a sprawling collective of outside musicians whose Folk Scene record defined a moment in time as beautifully as John Cale's Inside The Dream Syndicate, and The Incredible String Band's The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. Since then he has restricted his broadcasts to the occasional hand assembled epistle smuggled out via his and Elder's own Child Of Microtones imprint, while working alongside underground luminaries like PG Six, Samara Lubelski, Tom Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Willie 'Gutbucket' Lane, Tim Barnes, Dean Roberts and Dredd Foole.