Bridge City Sinners / the Goddamn Gallows / Vic Ruggiero & Lauren Napier at Lefty's Live Music (Des Moines)

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Bridge City Sinners / The Goddamn Gallows / Vic Ruggerio & Lauren Napier at Lefty's Live Music

21+ Show / 9 PM Doors / 9:30 PM Show / $18 advance or $22 at the door

Bridge City Sinners - Portland, OR - folk / oldtimey / punk / murder grass https://www.facebook.com/bridgecitysinners https://thebridgecitysinners.bandcamp.com/

The Goddamn Gallows - punk / gutterbilly / trainhopper / punk / hobocore / oi! / psychobilly / street punk https://sailorsgraverecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-trial https://www.facebook.com/thegoddamngallowsofficial

Vic Ruggiero & Lauren Napier - Vic: Singer and Songwriter from New York, front man of The Slackers & Lauren Napier: acoustic / folk / singer-songwriter from Tacoma, WA https://therealvicruggiero.bandcamp.com/ https://punkrockdoll.bandcamp.com/

The Bridge City Sinners - This is not your Grandparents' folk music. The Bridge City Sinners take folk songs in the direction of a punk rocker. A rowdy folksy mosaic of banjo, violin, guitar, mandolin, upright bass, & ukulele. The Sinners started their journey as a rotating cast of friends in 2016 who just wanted to play music on the streets “busk” in Portland, Oregon. They have transitioned into a powerful force playing festivals in 2018 such as Vans Warped Tour, NW String Summit, the Fest, & Seattle Folklife Festival. Before the Bridge City Sinners, lead singer Libby Lux and upright bass player Scott Michaud infrequently started playing music together on the streets of Portland, Oregon over eight years ago. Without rehearsal, nor a plan, a few times a year they would meet up with other various street musicians to sing and yell at passer byers. Years before that, on their separate journeys, they traveled, hitch-hiked, and howled at the moon across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In hobo fashion, they earned what they’d eat and roofs over their heads by the papers and coins tossed into their hat. Through their years of wandering, they were able to pick up a rich catalog of songs passed through the traveling / busking community. In 2012, their mutual best friend and lead singer of folk-punk band Profane Sass, passed away when he fell off a train in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In a way the Bridge City Sinners are a homage to keep his spirit alive and continue passing along the music they all sang together on the streets, hidden in trains, and in living rooms across the continent. They formed the Bridge City Sinners in the Winter of 2016.

The Goddamn Gallows: Spit from the heart of America's Rust Belt, arising from a night of flophouse violence. Drifting across the states, they cemented their sound in Portland, OR and later in Los Angeles, CA, where they lived in abandoned buildings, squatter camps, storage units and shoebox apartments.

In 2007, they left everything behind and spent the next 4 years living out of whatever vehicle would get them to the next town. Building upon their original sound of twanged-out, punk rock gutterbilly (Life of Sin 2004 and Gutterbillyblues 2007), they began picking up stray musicians along the way and adding to their sound; washboard, accordion, mandolin and banjo (Ghost of the Rails 2009 and 7 Devils 2011) creating a sound referred to as "hobocore", "gypsy-punk" or "americana-punk", while never being stuck in any one sound.

Enter 2018 and The Goddamn Gallows have reinvented themselves once again with The Trial. From rockabilly, psychobilly and punk rock, to bluegrass and metal, The Trial infuses disparate sounds into a new strange recipe of seamless genre bending profundities.

The Goddamn Gallows punk metal music is chock full of impromptu antics of the shocking variety and hauntingly eclectic instrumentation, The Goddamn Gallows have made legions of fans with their legendary, live shows.