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In The House Concert Series
Friday, March 23, 2012
At our home in Newberry, SC 

Doors Open at 7 PM
*  Codi Lester: 7:30 PM *  Eric and Peter: 8 PM

Reservations: 803-924-3469

Cost: $12

     
 

Eric Brace and Peter Cooper
In The House Concerts
March 23, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Tickets: $12
Opening artist: Codi Lester
For Reservations: 803-924-3469

The body of work that Eric Brace and Peter Cooper have created reflects their literate sensibilities as songwriters, a love of harmony and wry humor, and their deep respect for the masters they're lucky enough to play with.

Eric Brace and Peter Cooper have acclaimed music careers outside their impressive work as a duo. Eric Brace is the lead singer and songwriter for the renowned roots rock band Last Train Home, which has eight CDs and one live concert DVD to its credit.

A former journalist for The Washington Post, Brace found a kindred spirit in fellow East Nashvillian Peter Cooper, who has released two critically praised solo records, Mission Door from 2008 and The Lloyd Green Album in 2010, another step in his ongoing collaboration with the legendary pedal steel Hall of Famer.

Named one of Nashville's "10 Most Interesting People" by Nashville Arts & Entertainment magazine, Cooper is also a music writer for the Tennessean and other publications, a producer, and a professor of country music at Vanderbilt University.

You Don't Like Them Both was released in 2009 and was a #1 album on the Freeform American Roots Chart, Top Five on the Folk DJ Chart, and Top Ten on the Americana chart. The opening track, “I Know a Bird,” which was penned and sung by Brace, was the #1 Folk song on its release and a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition.

When Brace and Cooper play together, it's something special. The pairs most recent album, "I LOVE: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow," is a tour de force that sent the duo to LA for a Grammy Nomination in February 2012.

For more information on the show and artists, please click on the artists picture or go to the link: In The House Concert Series.

As always, thanks for your continued support and for keeping the music alive.




Opening artist, Codi Lester.  Click on the picture to visit her web site.
2011/2012 Season

PETER COOPER
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2011

FAYSSOUX STARLING MCLEAN W/BRANDON TURNER SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012

MICHAEL RENO HARRELL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Eric Brace and Peter Cooper/
Opener: Codi Lester
Friday, March 23, 2012

Past Performers:

Grant Peeples -- May 21, 2011
Carry Elkin -- March 27, 2011
Peter Cooper -- December 18, 2010
Jonathon Byrd -- November 20, 2010
Matt Ranck with Brandon Turner-- October 16, 2010
Angela Easterling -- Saturday, May 15, 2010
David Childers -- Saturday, April 17, 2010
Matt Ranck w/ Brandon Turner --Fri, March 12
Danny Schmidt -- Friday, February 12, 2010
Greg Trooper -- January 22, 2010
Peter Cooper and Eric Brace -- Dec. 12, 2009
Micheal Reno Harrell -- November 13, 2009
Carla Ulbrich -- October 2009

Thanks to all for your support and keeping the music alive!

living for peace,
theresa halfacre :)


PLEASE SEND COMMENTS, QUESTIONS OR ANSWERS (!) TO theresa.halfacre@att.net





Poets, artists and mystics
Seize moments in between lines
Of each lifetime to the next
Rediscovering and healing
In a way only imagination can express

Far ahead and in our future
We travel to and fro
We paint a path before us
In order to let go
For guilt that trips us nowhere
Is worth less than we could know

We can ponder the meaning of life
Look for character in clouds
Winding rivers and twisted lands
Any image revealed is meaningless
If we let it kick us
And refuse to kick back
Without treasuring its mortal wisdom

There's a darkend alley and an endless shore
There's a someone singing folklore, someone praying in a music store
Theres lines on the corner, there's less than perfect sleep
There are victims of survival, inventions of disease
Causes and cures, sufferage and greed
Angels and epiphanies, we're all Someone In Need

Don't you weep
In daylight or dawn
Walk on, move forward
Think ahead, think again
Don't you weep
Your loss is your love
Hold tight to it and then
Lay it down, lay it down
Walk on to move forward again

Everything and everyone that surrounds us
Will be discovered and revealed
One day we'll all be dreamers
One day there will be healing for all
For All is who we are on the inside
Inside, resurfacing and beckoning a call

A call of arms, of love, of peace
Withered or tattered, whole piece by piece
Ultimately we are One in need of love
The blood on our hands is the blood running free
Free to run somewhere, perhaps to the very same need.

We share the very same need
Don't weep, don't weep
At least, not tonight
Your loss is your love
Hold tight to it and then
Lay it down, lay it down
Walk on to move forward again

Far ahead and in our future
We travel to and fro
We paint a path before us
In order to let go
For guilt that trips us nowhere
Is worth less than we could know

August 2009

Please send questions, comments and answers to: theresa.halfacre@att.net 







With a stone cold face she left the room
Thought about home and sleeping ‘til noon
Grabbed the paper and her coffee cup
Walked to her car parked by the garbage truck

She got in her car, drove ten miles or so
Thought about home and letting things go
Rubbed her head ‘cause you know a head aches
When the wheels keep turning after you hit the breaks

She thought about little boys and girls
Living in ghetto’s and tripping on pills
She could free her guilt if she was willing
To be seen through eyes as the villain

It’s a cold, cold day
But I’m not cold enough to leave you this way
It’s a cold, cold day
The blackbirds are flying, the winter is here
Most days I think it’s been a pretty good year
But on this cold, cold day
I’m not cold enough to leave you this way
No I’m not cold enough today
But, I might be … come May

With a stone cold face she put the car in reverse
Thought about home and a spiritual nurse
Glanced at her paper and her coffee cup
Drove back to that broken down garbage truck

She got outta her car, walked ten steps or so
Looked at Maria in her soil-soaked clothes
Rubbed her head ’cause you know a head aches
When a fire is burning to take what it takes

She thought about little boys and girls
Living in ghetto’s and tripping on pills
She could free her guilt if she was willing
To be seen through eyes as the villain

It’s a cold, cold day
But I’m not cold enough to leave you this way
It’s a cold, cold day
The blackbirds are flying, the winter is here
Most days I think it’s been a pretty good year
But on this cold, cold day
I’m not cold enough to leave you this way
No I’m not cold enough today
But, I might be …. come May

Just when she thought Maria wouldn’t speak
Maria smiled and said, in a voice soft and weak
“I’ll give you a bible if you give me a dream,
One of my family and my horse, Melody.”

“I’ve got applesauce in a McDonald’s cup,”
“Mary told me it would bring good-luck,
It’s been three days since I’ve had a nap
I’m going to sleep; I won‘t be back”

With a stone cold face, Maria drifted to sleep
Grabbed a dream and one taste of freedom
She left her bible ’cause it gave her a dream
If we live long enough, maybe we'll read it

Four girls walked to the garbage truck
Three looked down; one spoke up
“You can’t wake-up Maria
She’s won’t be giving away bibles
She’s won’t be tripping on pills
You can’t wake-up Maria
If her eyes open on the dark side of hell
Only God can tell her what she’s done

2009





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