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"Fresh faces in Michigan's songwriting scene"
Grand Rapids native Drew Nelson joined the Navy and started playing his songs all over the world. He lists his influences as "Greg Brown, Peter Mulvey, Tom Waits, Patty Griffin, Lyle Lovett, Richard Shindell, Andrew Calhoun, Kat Eggleston, John Gorka, Jan Krist, Ralston Bowles, U2, Bruce Cockburn, and, well, . . . Dylan, Dylan, Dylan." He opened for John Gorka at The Ark last December. Sharing tonight's bill is Michigan songwriter Jim Bizer, who sings about faith, rivers, insanity and a few things you've probably never heard before in a song--like a romance that got started with a man falling off of a 30-story building. A member of the Yellow Room Gang and a three-time finalist in the New Folk Songwriting Competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Jim won the grand prize in the Great American Song Contest for his September 11 reflection, "We Are All Connected."
Click here or here to visit Drew Nelson on the Web.
Click here to visit Jim Bizer's website.
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