By Laurel Adams
Guest Writer
Singer/Song writer Rob Tiger
The Peacock, located at 301 Church St., Hayesville, NC announces that Song Writers Showcase No. 32 is back on schedule for Saturday, July 17 offering the diverse stylings of four singer/songwriters, Alicia Michilli, Kyshona Armstrong, Wyatt Espalin and host Rob Tiger.
Michilli is an R & B/Soul artist who hails from Detroit where she was raised on the Motown sounds which are undisguised in her music. You will hear echoes of Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. After years of performing in Michigan, Michilli decided to check out Nashville where her career quickly took off with the help of fellow writers and performers.
Armstrong has always lent her voice and music talents to those who feel they have been silenced or forgotten. She began her career as a music therapist, writing her first songs with her patients. She soon found the need to write and find her own voice, and she, too, was led to the Nashville creative community. She has learned how to balance her music career with her passion to heal which permeates her music as the strength needed to overcome adversity and to find hope.
No stranger to the Peacock stage, Espalin, who hails from Hiawassee, started entertaining at the early age of 8 on the music barn stage built by his grandfather on the family campground when he teamed up with his brother Matt. When Matt hung up his fiddle after high school, Wyatt paired up with Cobi Ferguson as “Trees Leave” and they toured extensively combining bluegrass with the unique sounds of electric guitar. When the time came for their paths to diverge, Wyatt continued to find new partners and new settings for his songs which embrace longings to be free, to be pardoned, like the Ocoee River, one of his haunts.
No Song Writer Showcase would be complete without the awesome talents of host Rob Tiger, who continually surprises his audience with his own complex lyrics, melodies and his consummate skills as a musician and showman. There wouldn’t be a SWS without his creative inspiration.
The show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets can be purchased online at www.thepeacocknc.org or at the box office by calling 389-2787. Tigers on the Square in Hayesville will also have tickets for sale.