Kim Ware (the Good Graces) and Jeff Evans (Chickens and Pigs, Jeff Evans Porkestra) present songs and stories live at Red Light Cafe, Sunday Oct 19. Doors at 6pm, tickets are $10 at the door, $7 in advance.
KIM WARE: Drummer-turned-songwriter Kim Ware started the Good Graces on a whim in 2006, after purchasing a beat up, old acoustic guitar she named Buzzy at the Lakewood Antiques Market in Atlanta. The songs quickly poured out of her, melodic stories of heartache and hope, set to three chords that she often didn’t know the names of. Since then, Kim and tGG have toured the east coast multiple times; paid musical visits to Texas, over to California, through the Midwest; and showcased at such festivals as 30A, NXNE, and LEAF, where Kim was a finalist and placed in the top three at the NewSong Singer-Songwriter Competition in 2019. She’s been praised as a “songwriter’s songwriter” as well as “an Atlanta treasure” by local musicians and press alike, with songs that blend the gritty realness of 90s-era alternative rock with the straightforward charm of country and folk.
JEFF EVANS: A longtime member of Atlanta's alt-country/Americana scene, singer-songwriter Jeff Evans fronts the Jeff Evans Porkestra, with whom he's released 2 critically-acclaimed EPs, 2024's Willow Pillow and 2025's When Pigs Dance, following 9 records released with his previous band Chickens and Pigs.
Evans' witty, romantic lyrics and ragged-but-right guitar chops have wowed critics such as legendary dean of American reviewers Robert Christgau, who wrote: " 'Sixty-watt bulb in a 40-watt socket' documents an EP's worth of a world in which 'old people ain't as old as they used to be', lost dogs leave a trail of puppies everywhere they bury their bone, the sun sinks whenever Evans leaves the girl who holds out on her loving until she gets her Sunday beer, and if it's green lights all the way to her house, it's also green lights all the way home."
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