Live From The Waterworks Returns!
Get ready for the next presentation of Live From The Waterworks: A Gamble Rogers Concert Series! Along with our co-host and sponsor, The St. Johns Cultural Council, we are delighted to present such an array of talent from across the country and from right here at home.
Gretchen Peters with Frank Douglas
Saturday, December 21st, 2024
Gretchen Peters
For over two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. "If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as 'On A Bus To St. Cloud,'" People Magazine wrote, "she has already earned herself a spot among country's upper echelon of contemporary composers.” Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her "both a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes,” and said her song “The Matador”, "moved me so greatly, I cried from the soles of my feet”, Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her song “Independence Day”, recorded by Martina McBride, won a CMA Song of the Year award in 1995. She has been nominated for 2 Grammys (“Independence Day/Martina McBride, “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am”/Patty Loveless), a Golden Globe (“Here I Am”/Bryan Adams), and numerous other awards. Her 2015 album, Blackbirds was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year by the UK Americana Association. In 2015, The Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time. In 2021 she was awarded The Poets Award by the Academy of Country Music.
Frank Douglas
"As the founding member and lead singer/songwriter for The Fried Turkeys, Tallahassee native FrankDouglas approaches the topics of love, lust, politics, and many other common societal themes with an ear for harmony and a head for irony. His tunes combine influences ranging from folk to blues to country to rock, and his lyrics take inspiration from sources ranging from the absurd to the ongoing poetry of his 94-year old mother, a lifelong muse. Some songs will make you laugh, and some may make you cry, and some will make you do both at the same time."
Live From The Waterworks 2025
Get ready for the next presentation of Live From The Waterworks: A Gamble Rogers Concert Series! Along with our co-host and sponsor, The St. Johns Cultural Council, we are delighted to present such an array of talent from across the country and from right here at home.
Verlon Thompson and Shawn Camp: A Guy Clark Tribute
January 18, 2025
It was just another one of Guy Clark’s keen ideas to introduce the “Okie” and “Arkansawyer”. He knew them both well but they didn’t know each other when they all took the stage that night in Little Rock over twenty years ago. With Camp on his left and Thompson on his right, Guy broke into “Texas Cookin’”. When the smoke cleared a couple of hours later, a strong and steady friendship was born.
These two “yayhoos”, as Guy called them, have spent a big part of their lives in the trenches with Guy Clark...supporting him, learning from him and loving him. Now they’ve decided to come together in performance to share some special memories and the unforgettable music of their old friend Guy Clark.
Don’t miss this very special opportunity in America’s oldest city, St. Augustine. The Waterworks is an intimate, historic venue (built in 1898 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places) and only 120 tickets are available for each performance.The Gamble Rogers Concert Series celebrates the legendary recording artist Gamble Rogers, whose balladry, guitar wizardry and storytelling helped to shape American folk music. Concerts are held on the third Saturday of each month.
Jerron Paxton with Ruth Wyand
February 22, 2025
Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920's and making them wish they could stay there for good. Blind Boy Paxton may be one of the greatest multi-instrumentalists that you have not heard of. Yet. And time is getting short, fast. This young musician sings and plays banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones (percussion). Paxton has an eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real. In addition, he mesmerizes audiences with his humor and storytelling. Paxton's sound is influenced by the likes of Fats Waller and "Blind" Lemon Jefferson. According to Will Friedwald in the Wall Street Journal, Paxton is "virtually the only music-maker of his generation—playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements—to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and '30s."
Ruth Wyand has achieved a level of diversity that has exceeded the expectations of audiences around the world. Her guitar virtuosity is demonstrated by dynamic fingerpicking, bottleneck slide and a warm alto voice. She plays a mix of Americana, jazz, blues, folk, country augmented by Piedmont and bluegrass clawhammer fingerpicking. Playing well-crafted instrumental arrangements of classics ranging from Doc Watson, Etta Baker, Jimi Hendrix, Leo Kottke to Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Nina Simone, each song, no matter how different has a firm Ruth Wyand stamp of style on it. Her songwriting is universal, timeless, relatable, emotionally resonant, sometimes witty, sometimes serious but always human and genuine. Wyand has toured extensively throughout the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Kuwait and France and has won numerous awards for guitar and songwriting including the Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, the South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Competition and the Hank Williams Songwriting Award.
The Jeff Picker Band with Todd & Molly Jones
March 22, 2025
The Jeff Picker Band
Known for his versatility across multiple styles, Jeff Picker is an in-demand double bassist, bass guitarist, composer, and bandleader in Nashville, TN.
Hailed as the “designated bassist to the stars,” (The Willamette Week) Jeff is a touring member of platinum-selling, genre-bending, progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek (Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins), with whom he has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. Prior to that, he spent 5 years as a member of 15-time GRAMMY Award winner and Grand Ole Opry member Ricky Skaggs’ band Kentucky Thunder, and one year as a member of IBMA Award-winning all-star bluegrass ensemble East Nash Grass. He appears frequently as a member of the staff band at the Grand Ole Opry, accompanying country legends such as Vince Gill, John Anderson, and many more.
Jeff has also appeared on over 50 records in styles ranging from bluegrass to country to jazz to Americana, including Sarah Jarosz’s acclaimed 2024 release “Polaroid Lovers.” He has also performed or recorded on a freelance basis with dozens of other artists including Mark O’Connor, Sam Bush, John Jorgensen, Tim O’Brien, and David Grisman.
Todd and Molly Jones
Beloved is a word that doesn't quite get it done when considering how the St. Augustine community feels about Todd and Molly Jones. They are keepers of a flame that you will recognize within yourself even if you have never heard their music before. In commune with the human spirit, their music resonates in ways that will touch your heart, lift you up and make you cry. In their own words: 20 years harmonizing... love, loss, acceptance... melodic journal... family portrait... breathing deep... building bridges... lighting matches... tending the hearth fire.., burning it all down... . Come and experience the magic yourself on March 22nd.
