Kray Van Kirk + Jane Symmes

Doors: 6:30pm ⎮ Show: 7:30pm          Tickets: $20 advance ⎮ $25 doors Advance tickets can only be purchased online-we do not sell advance tickets at the venue. Refunds are not available within 48 hours of the event. Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room.  We are now accepting reservations for diners! After purchasing tickets, please visit the Reservations page to book a table. Table reservations require advance tickets, and are only for guests who plan to dine at the Royal Room.  We do not take reservations over the phone. Seating for non-diners is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! An evening of folk Americana on 6 & 12-string guitar, so that everyone, of any history or identity, can know they have a verse in the shouted poetry of dawn. Kray Van Kirk A fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, but he set science aside to write songs, tell stories, and summon heroes. “We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart,” he says. “There is a reason for hero stories, hidden in plain sight and cloaked in the everyday. The dragons look different, the monsters wear suits, the quest hides behind the mundane and appears utterly futile, but the work is the same: Defeat Empire! Build Utopia!” When he reached Scotland and the Fringe Festival, the Daily Fringe Review wrote “The evening’s act was Kray Van Kirk, whose 12-string guitar and soaring vocals were spellbinding; the singer-songwriter, in his Edinburgh debut, was not the reason I arrived early, but was certainly why I stayed late.” Of this charming, Quixotic