AN EVENING with NICK DITTMEIER — live event
Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters understand that to stay relevant, country and Americana—like any long-running musical genres—must be unceremoniously leveled from time to time. Blasted by a cold steel wrecking ball, and reassembled into new forms atop the rubble. And what better moment for a scheduled demolition than with all of planet Earth in a holding pattern, straddling the deep chasm between past and future. Into this void arrives Heavy Denim, an album that artfully sidesteps any slavish, formulaic adherence to roots-music traditions. “At the height of the pandemic” Dittmeier says, “it became clear to me that—with everything we’d been through—there was going to be a different mind coming out the other side. As a band, we decided we weren’t going to try to go back and replicate who we were, or the reality we were living before covid, forcing themselves out of their comfort zones, they began stripping back their roots-rock bluster and leaving room for new textures: drum machines, loo
Starts: 2025-08-28T19:30:00Z
Ends: 2025-08-28T21:30:00Z
Where: 218 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104, United States
Price: $0.0