![]() ![]() Over the two-week festival at Trinity Baptist Church, you’ll hear 6 programs and 19 phenomenal musicians with an arc of programming that will be world-class from start to finish.Ĭactus Pear Music Festival was founded in 1996 by Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, former concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony for 13 years. And it is good.The Cactus Pear Music Festival season kicks off Thursday, July 7, 2022, and runs through Saturday, July 16. In other words, Chris Frisina is coming out of this unbearable, unbelievably tragic, disconcerting year like a damn newborn moth with jet engine wings aimed toward a totally full super-moon. And surprising us all, including himself, with where we emerge. Transforming the minutiae of everyday life into ever more evocative music. Grabbing us by the ears in a new-age, Prine-like grip. ![]() Today, Chris continues crafting genuine folk tales of honest longing, disquieting loss, and nostalgia through a brilliant sheen of fresh insight with humble humor. And in his photography and design work, he renders the essence of fellow musicians into expressive, personalized works of art. In illustrations, he swirls and meanders towards an eventual finish only understood upon completion – as in his music. In songwriting, he pulls from this cave rambling, heartfelt tales flowing through unselfconscious truth. Mostly, he wakes up with no idea what he’s going to do next, then finds himself there. Yet, Chris Frisina’s brain is still a bat cave. As a result, his travels brought him across the country and eventually through debilitating depression before coming to rest with a sense of personal peace and positivity in Durham, NC. Not one to commit, he skirted the compulsive hunting and fishing tradition held close to his father’s heart - instead cultivating a sensitivity more suited to artists and vagabonds. With a high lonesome twang, an Emmylou-like southern drawl, and blistering guitar techniques, Blue Cactus’ new record Stranger Again exercises the honky-tonk muscles to firmly bear the flag for a new generation of classic country practitioners.Ĭhris Frisina was born in the town of Olean, New York to a family of northeastern wiseacres. Their finest work yet, Blue Cactus resuscitate a fleeting style of honest-to-goodness country music considered valueless to a “new” country music where songwriting is officiated by financial analysts and teams of marketing plutocrats instead of woebegone troubadours. Throughout Stranger Again, they explore loss and longing, self-love and reckoning with personal, political and human struggles. The otherworldliness of the music is a perfect contrast to their distinctly grounded, human storytelling lyrics. Stranger Again is a deep dive into Cosmic American music, with the band taking their sound into ambitious new planes, where country-rock meets light psychedelia as the soaring vocals meet twangy slide-guitars and propulsive bass-lines. ![]() The album has received enthusiastic attention from tastemakers including No Depression, American Songwriter, FLOOD Magazine, Talkhouse, and INDY Week among others. Tickets are $15.īlue Cactus, the North Carolina duo of Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, make Cosmic Americana: a blend of grit, glitz, groove, and twang that evokes a celestial soundscape of mid-century heartbreak.įollowing their critically acclaimed 2017 debut and a string of singles in 2020 their evolution is made plain on their sophomore LP, Stranger Again, released on Sleepy Cat Records. ![]()
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