The award-winning Ordinary Elephant make their Sundilla debut on Thursday, June 28; showtime at the AUUF is 7:30. Advance tickets cost just $12 and are available at Spicer’s Music, Blooming Colors, World Cup Coffee, and online at sundillamusic.com; admission at the door will be $15. Free coffee, tea, water and food will be available, and attendees are invited to bring whatever food or beverage they prefer.
The eagle-eyed might notice that this concert has been moved up on the schedule. When Ordinary Elephant was named Artist of the Year by Folk Alliance International, new doors opened and new opportunities were presented. One of those was in conflict with the original Sundilla date, and rather than postpone the concert we decided to make it happen sooner rather than later… or never at all.
Ordinary Elephant captivates listeners with their well-honed combination of insightful writing, effortless harmonies and intertwined clawhammer banjo and guitar. The collaboration of husband and wife, their connection, and their influences (such as Gillian Welch, Guy Clark, and Darrell Scott) all meet on stage. You see it, hear it, and then you find yourself truly feeling it. “As genuine as it gets” says Lloyd Maines.
Before being named Artist of the Year at the 2018 International Folk Music Awards, Ordinary Elephant was both a Kerrville New Folk Finalist and Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist in 2017, and their release ‘Before I Go’ was No. 7 on the Folk DJ Chart for the year. Crystal and Pete Damore have been performing together since 2011, when they called Texas home. The two became nomads in 2014, and continue to live on the road full-time with their dogs, while creating and sharing the conversation of their music.
See Ordinary Elephant at Sundilla while you still can! They will be performing on Thursday, June 28, at the AUUF. Showtime is 7:30, and advance tickets cost just $12 and can be found at Spicer’s Music, Blooming Colors, World Cup Coffee, and online at sundillamusic.com; admission at the door will be $15. Free coffee, tea, water and food will be available, and attendees are welcome to bring whatever food or beverage they prefer.
“Their harmonies, singing, the whole presentation…as genuine as it gets”- Lloyd Maines
“I remember when Gillian Welch and David Rawlings were here for the first time…I suspect that this couple is going to play in the same league in the foreseeable future.”- Dani Heyvaert, Rootstime.be
“These are elegant, warm and engaging songs delivered and played with instant warmth and beautiful, instinctive intensity.”-Mike Ritchie, Celtic Music Radio
“I didn’t know Ordinary Elephant..really, really enjoyed this beautiful and subtle music…the perfect vocals, the delicate arrangements are killers” -Michel Penard, Radio ISA France
“There is something decidedly compelling here.”-Ron Oates
“Both John McCutcheon’s CD Trolling for Dreams and Ordinary Elephant’s Before I Go are great musical talismans for 2017.” – Tom D’Agostino, Folk Sessions
“A worthy new act.”- Ron Alden, WNTI, Hackettstown, NJ
“It’s not just raw talent, although that’s not a bad place to start. The part that becomes magic for Ordinary Elephant is the blend, the sound that becomes more than the sum of the individual parts.”
– Bill Aspinwall, Texas Music Journal
“I’m impressed by many things, but mostly by the songwriting style…[the lyrics are] very economical and stripped down, but seem to effortlessly evoke the kind of poignancy and emotion someone expects of artists with more salt on their shoulders.”- Chuck Hawthorne
“Listening to Ordinary Elephant live was a real treat. Tight harmonies, solid songwriting, and an overall musical experience comparable to the best of T Bone Burnett”-Ray Younkin