Doors: 7:30 pm
Music: 8:00 pm
We are thrilled to present two singer-songwriters, Walt Wilkins from Austin, TX, and Marc Douglas Berardo from Westerly, RI. Come join us at Concerts at The Sevareid House, a historic midcentury modern house in Alexandria, VA, for an unforgettable evening hearing these two incredible songwriters, swapping great songs, and having a lot of laughs.
ABOUT WALT:
Website: waltwilkins.com
Videos:
Trains I Missed Live on Troubadour, TX -
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Walt Wilkins "Poetry" | Concerts from Blue Rock LIVE -
Walt Wilkins "If It Weren't For You" -
“Walt Wilkins – Is best described as the Songwriter's Songwriter” – Americana Review.
“In a modern world thick with instigators — people who seem to wake up each day and decide whether they want to get their enemies or allies the most riled up this time around — Walt Wilkins comes off as an unlikely radical. This is a man at peace, and he’s gonna try like hell to get you right there with him.… In a loud and conflict-rich world, maybe there’s nothing more radical than being the guy who’s already soundtracking the calm after the storm.” – Mike Ethan Messick, Texas Music Magazine
A near-constant presence on the Texas Music Chart since its inception as a songwriter, producer, singer, guitar player, and artist. His organic blend of Texas Music, acoustic rock, blues, country, and folk is a delightful trip through Americana music.
Walt Wilkins is “a songwriter, producer, poet, and troubadour. Walt performed and made records with the Mystiqueros, his wife Tina, and another legendary songwriter, Kevin Welch.
Wilkins wrote for BMG Nashville for five years. Wilkins has produced many creative records by a variety of notable artists including Brandon Rhyder, Pat Green, Jamie Richards, Sam Baker, Bonnie Bishop, and his wife, Tina Mitchell Wilkins Jumping Dog Studio in Austin TX. He has had 100+ songs recorded by other artists, and he is responsible for coordinating and hosting the annual Waltstock & Barrel. Walt was also featured on the TV show Troubadour Texas, a docu-drama, following the lives of various singers and songwriters. He appeared with his band on the hit TV series, Friday Night Lights.
Wilkins spent a solid decade in the Nashville Country Music business trenches, writing songs he wanted to be recorded by artists he admired. There are indeed some noteworthy cuts: Seven Hillsides, by Ricky Skaggs, on a record that won a bluegrass-gospel Grammy
Ty Herndon, during his heyday, made Big Hopes the title of his 3rd album for Sony, and there have been roughly a dozen other songs on major-label records. But it was Pat Green's recordings of several songs that made Wilkins' name known in Texas, including Poetry, Edens Gate, Wrapped, Carry On, We've All Got Our Reasons, among others.
But it's the music of Texas that informs all of Walt's music. The music is just closer to the ground there. He explains. It's the collision of Mexican and American, the German immigrants, and everyone else who came to Texas in search of a better life.
Wilkins's work has been likened to the greatest and most timeless of the Texas/American troubadours: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and Kevin Welch, among others. But it's the John Steinbeck comparison that means the most. It was in a review of Fire, Honey & Angels, in Country Standard Time. That's a remark to keep close. Wilkins says. I have written poetry since I was in grade school, and songs for over twenty years now. It means an awful lot to be mentioned in the same sentence as someone with as much gravity as Steinbeck I do try to take my given work in the world seriously, and try not to shy away from the heavy subjects in life: commitment, faith, death.
ABOUT MARC:
Website: marcdouglas.com
Videos:
The Hard Part -
Waiting on a Brand New Day -
Already Gone -
“Marc Douglas Berardo writes songs that are witty without being superficial, intelligent without being ponderous, fun without being silly. He performs them with an infectious verve. On top of that, he doesn't seem to have the slightest idea of just how good he is." -- David Olney
"Berardo takes you to a place within yourself to make changes you want to see in the world." -- Mary Jane Twohy, The Village, Sirius/XM Radio
"High-quality story-telling, picking, and playing." -- Rob Ellen, The Medicine Show Radio, Moose Mobile, U.K.
Marc Douglas Berardo lives on the southwestern coastline of Rhode Island on a river that runs into the ocean. Berardo’s songs mine the deep feelings and lessons gleaned from real-life characters and situations. It's his songs combined with an onstage presence that uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep and sometimes spiritual experience. It’s an adventure that brings to mind James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark, or Steely Dan with a touch of Mark Twain or Hunter S. Thompson for good measure. After thirty years of bars, theaters, house concerts, and festivals, as well as a boatload of song awards and national recognition, Berardo has established himself as the real deal. A lifer that No Depression Magazine called “sincere, fluid, charming and above all gripping.”
Berardo's songs have been recognized at many prestigious national festivals. He headlined the 2025 Tucson Folk Festival with Abbie Gardner. He has performed at the 2025 Grand Mesa Songwriter Festival in Cedaredge, CO, the 2024 Red Lodge Songwriter Festival in Red Lodge, MT, and other festivals such as the South Florida Folk Festival, the Wildflower Art and Music Festival, and the legendary Kerrville Folk Festival.
He has opened for or shared the stage with The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, John Hiatt, Martin Sexton, Eric Taylor, Kevin Welch, Kim Richey, Will Kimbrough, David Olney, Ari Hest, and Kenny White. Berardo's interview and live performance featured on the Sirius/ XM Satellite Radio show The Village was voted one of the best of the year by listeners. Berardo’s new full-length record, “The Beauty of This Now,” was released on May 31, 2024. It was recorded in Austin, Texas, and produced by Texas legends Ron Flynt and Walt Wilkins.
John Apice of Americana Highways wrote: “There’s a seriousness to Marc’s compositions that’s not apparent in the slew of artists who seem to have a lot of nothing to say in an album’s worth of music…Marc is cut from the same cloth as James Taylor, early Elton John…”
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