This is something completely different. A unique style of music blended from American hill country folk music, bluegrass, southern state civil war legend, log cabin backwoods philosophy, snake catchin', bear fightin' survivalism.  It is a potent, heady cocktail thrown into a shaker with ice and a slice and shaken up with the entire extraordinary life story of Mean Mary James.

What you get borders on the unbelievable; anyone who writes a song at 4yrs old titled Mean Mary from Alabam and the local radio stations stick you with a tag that stays with you for life has to be special.

 

Mary is an incredible banjo player, and then she picks up the fiddle, then the guitar..............

And the songs, the songs, the songs...................

 

I could easily give you a link or two to the youtubes but instead here's a link http://meanmary.com/bio to Mary's Biography. There is also one video of Mary aged 6yrs. Read the bio, all of it. It is an extraordinary tale, in fact it is a movie already written. Her tale alone will make you want to see her.

Mary has been to us twice before, both visits were unforgettable. She first arrived with her brother Frank and the pair of them blew us away.  What a fabulous relationship they have after performing together since they were literally small children. 

The second time she played solo and took every heart in the room away with her. Wonderful. 

This time we look forward to seeing both siblings together again, it will be joyous to be here.