APRIL brings ALTERNATIVE FOLK to H3C
Acoustic, Independent, Genre Bending, Eclectic, Diverse, Authentic
For the final show in our Spring triad, Hillbilly Haiku is excited to present…
ED SNODDERLY
with Jack Klatt opening
Saturday April 12, 2025
Doors/Optional Potluck at 6:00pm, Music at 7:00pm
RSVP Required: Email or Text (hillbillyhaiku@gmail.com, 615-500-8717)
Address and Directions provided when you RSVP
Suggested Donation $20, generosity rocks! ALL $ goes to artists
BYOB and drink responsibly!
Bring a potluck dish or deli/dessert item if you wish to participate
It’s a challenge to pin an accurate label to Ed’s music. Some say Americana but that means nothing but marketing to me. It’s a roots gumbo for sure, I’m going with Alternative Folk. it is absolutely acoustic, indie, authentic. It is also cultural, ethnic, regional. It is full of and based on Ed’s family’s Appalachian roots, memories, heritage. It is rural and hillbilly and whimsical and honest and down home. We are so proud to have Ed’s music in the H3C family!
His songwriting is where he hangs his heart and hat. His songs have been recorded by Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Missy Raines and others. Since 1992 he has been teaching songwriting classes in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University.
Snodderly also has received the utmost honor of having the third verse of his song, “The Diamond Stream,” permanently displayed on the Wall of Honor at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. I think of the iconic country songwriters honored in the Hall of Fame and I marvel at the fact that they got this so right.
Please help us welcome Jack Klatt to the Hillbilly Haiku family! Jack is someone I stumbled upon in my daily online listening, and immediately felt a connection. When I read that he was from Minnesota, our home state, I looked deeper at once. What I heard was unfailingly ‘my kind’. But he plays mostly around the upper Midwest and after watching for him to tour this far South, I reached out to him online and now he’s coming from MN to open for Ed. Music is the absolute best connector! He is doing this for the love of music and the adventure of spreading his music. Let’s make sure he knows we appreciate his efforts. Here are a few descriptors from his bio and if you click on his photo below, you will be linked to a youtube for a listen.
“Musical missionary and tireless troubadour Jack Klatt isn’t one to be easily categorized or relegated to a narrow niche. He comes across as a young man with a wizened and worldly perspective, an artist who possesses a timeless sensibility of both place and purpose. He’s mastered his deft finger-picking technique and used that sturdy approach to bring his material an authenticity reminiscent of the most revered musicians and storytellers.”
Can you perhaps get an idea why I thought of him opening for Ed? I think those descriptors pretty much apply to them both. I can’t wait to bring them together and share it with y’all. Please make plans to join us for our final house concert before Fall, and let’s get to know Jack better together.
We plan to be back in September with 3 more months of music without all the grit strained out! As always, we remain so appreciative of your support in building and sustaining this music-loving community called Hillbilly Haiku. Hope to see you April 12 and please feel free to share this invite with those good folks in your circles who might enjoy what we do. Thank you!!