BRETT HUGHES AND KAT WRIGHT
Featuring a special introduction by Mayor Miro Weinberger

Spend your lunch break with great local entertainment on the BCA Center plaza in City Hall Park

Grab your friends, grab your lunch, and join us for our free concert series in City Hall Park every Wednesday and Friday through August!

Aqua Vitea Kombucha available on site for a $1 minimum donation!

This event is put on by Burlington City Arts

Sponsored by Eyes of the World and Seven Days

KAT WRIGHT: “What’s in a name…?” So mused the bard, and all too often the name doesn’t do justice to the subject. Not so with this Vermont octet. Kat herself, whose voice is both sultry and dynamic, delicate yet powerful, and gritty but highly emotive and nuanced, has been described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse”. Add to that voice enough stage presence to tame lions, and the combination of feline femininity proves immediately enchanting.

On the other hand, one is presented with the words “Indomitable Soul Band”. Here, too, there are no misnomers involved: a rock solid rhythm section of bass, drums and keys; a powerful, three-piece horn section; an electric guitarist who dances beneath the surface before exploding to the top… and he harmonizes brilliantly, too. Seven players, each a soloist and entertainer in their own right, blending Memphis soul and new school R&B with a level of improvisation that more than a few Vermont bands have been known for. They aim right for the heart and move your soul without overlooking your ass. Confident, cool and, well… indomitable.

What’s in a name is what’s right in front of you on the stage at a Kat Wright and The Indomitable Soul Band show. Working their magic throughout the Northeast and preparing to extend far beyond the region, Kat and the band are on a simple quest to “send people out feeling better than when they walked in” to the show…

BRETT HUGHES: Brett Hughes has been kicking around the Burlington, VT music scene longer than he probably should— but while he’s been at it, he’s played with a pile-up of bands: Chrome Cowboys, Monoprix, Belle Pines, Cider House Boys, viperHouse, Whateverly Brothers, Mike Gordon And Ramble Dove, Whiskey Likkers, Wrecking Ball, The Decentz, Fortune Tellers, All Fall Down, and many more that he can’t remember the names of.

He’s been hosting Honky Tonk Tuesday at the Radio Bean for over 8-1/2 years, and he loves being the harmony singer with sweet-singing women in little duos—Me&You (with Marie Claire), Kat Wright, Toni Catlin, Lesley Grant, and Lila Webb. He’s reconnected with great Mississippi-based force of nature Shannon McNally, touring around the Northeast and around Tennessee and Mississippi this Spring, as well as jumping in on a couple of dates opening for 2013 Grammy Winner Rodney Crowell. He recently produced Joe Adler‘s soon-to-be-released full-length album of songs, and co-produced Steven Leibman‘s 2012 masterwork, I Know They’re There.

He recorded the second Surprise Me Mr. Davis album, which features The Barr Brothers and Nathan Moore, and won a regional Emmy Award for composition for his soundtrack to Windy Acres in 2005. He spent this April in Nashville, and he’ll likely never spend another April in VT. He’s gotta make a record. Soon.