Ian Moore's Acoustic Family Christmas Show

Doors @ 7pmShow @ 8pmFull BarFree On-site ParkingAll AgesPURCHASE TICKETS“You should be playing stadiums!” Ian laughs while hearing this after another blazing performance at the 2024 SXSW music festival. Is he laughing because he has played his fair share already, from shows with some of the most influential musicians of all time, from the Rolling Stones to Bob Dylan, to a long line of headline festival performances, or because he knows the folly of the music business? “I’m always aiming for the fences,” he says, but you can tell he’s also motivated by something deeper. Ian is a triple threat and an artist’s artist. He came up in Austin, mentored by the greats. Stevie Ray Vaughan famously gave him his first guitar, and you can hear the lineage in his fingers, but then you hear that voice...” I was obsessed with the soul singers as a kid,” he says, and you can hear those influences in his silky falsetto and his soulful phrasing. Spin magazine described him as a cross between Aaron Neville and Jimi Hendrix, and that duality sets him apart from so many other guitarists. There is a sensitivity within the fire and an economy in his playing that came from years and years playing with the greats as a young man, sharing stages with Willie Nelson, Albert King, Jimmie Vaughan, Albert Collins, Doug Sahm, and many others while still in his teens and early twenties. At the same time, Ian is always searching for new ways to expand and refine his music, working with groundbreaking producers like Mark Howard/Daniel Lanois(Bob Dylan, U2), Joe Chicarelli(White Stripes, Elton John), and more recently, Adrian Quesada, whose band ‘the Black Pumas’ was starting to hit as they were making Ian’s ‘Strange Days.’ He looks at songwriting through a lens just as serious as Guy Clark or John Prine, but through a scope that includes influences from country blues to brit pop and back. “Man, many people don’t even listen to lyrics anymore, but to me, it is the core of a great song, and if the core