Live From SugarHill Studios – Episode 19
The Happen-Ins
Craig Kinsey
The Happen-Ins and Craig Kinsey (Sideshow Tramps) are the musical guests. Gina Miller invites Zenfilm’s W. Ross Wells to share the co-hosting duties. Community guest and ‘audience of one’ is Amber Roussel, co-founder of a creative consulting group called Ah-Ha! Creative that serves clients in the areas of arts, travel, hospitality, non-profit and technology including producing events for kirtsy.com. She is also one-half of the local Team Houston in the national Ford Fiesta Movement contest.
Comprised of former members of the Dedringers, Austins The Happen-Ins features Sean Faires and John Michael Schoepf with Lomita frontman Ricky Ray Jackson and joined later by Harlem Spiritual Orchestra Drummer, Falcon Valdez –its no surprise that they offer up a sound that blurs the lines between classic taste and youthful filth. Brimming with infectious melodies, bacon greased guitars and sweaty hip shaking swagger, the live shows helps them brandish their own culture and spirit seeped in rhythm & blues and rock n roll.
Born a full turn from the white picket fences of America, Craig Kinsey was raised on Southern lore from a family of moon shiners. His teenage years were spent train hopping, walking, and driving across the country in search of the old days Guthrie, Kerouac, and John Lee Hooker. This seeking out the marrow of life led him into the great silence of a monastery and out again into musics center stage. His album, The Burdener starts off with a circus a raucous, grinding New Orleans sound, then blending tunes which weave a tapestry of barroom piano, brass, strings and gypsy frontier styled swing. Craig is also frontman for the wildly popular Sideshow Tramps.
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