BILLY BRAGG
ACG Presents
BILLY BRAGG
The Roaring Forty USA Tour 2024
October 6 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 6, 2024 @ 7:30PM
ACG Presents
BILLY BRAGG
The Roaring Forty USA Tour 2024
with special guest TRAPPER SCHOEPP
This is a General Admission Show.
Tickets: $50.00
Gold Circle: $75.00
Gold Circle includes early entry and preferred seating.
Gold Circle doors 6:15PM | GA doors 6:30PM | Show at 7:30PM
In 2023 Billy Bragg is celebrating a remarkable 40 years as Britain’s favourite folk singer, songwriter and campaigner. To mark this significant landmark, he has released an acclaimed career-spanning box set ‘The Roaring Forty’ and has played to sell-out crowds across the world. In November he performed his most famous song ‘A New England’ on Later With Jools Holland almost exactly 40 years to the day that he debuted the song on The Tube (also presented by one Jools Holland!).
Galvanised in the late 70s by The Clash and an aversion to the austere policies of Margaret Thatcher, Billy set out to inspire political engagement and empathy. He has performed numerous benefit shows for the miners, the Labour party, CND, the jobless and many more, and has run the Left Field political stage at Glastonbury for the last 20 years.
Billy has released 11 solo studio albums, three albums of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to contemporary music by Billy and Wilco (the Mermaid Avenue albums) and one album with Joe Henry. He released a mini album Bridges Not Walls in 2017. His latest studio album, the acclaimed ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ came out in 2021.
Billy Bragg added best-selling author to his CV with the success of his acclaimed 2017 book Roots, Radicals & Rockers – How Skiffle Changed The World. He has written two books of political analysis – The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging (2006) and The Three Dimensions of Freedom (2019).Billy won the Outstanding Contribution To British Music Award at the prestigious Ivors Awards in 2018. Born and raised in Barking, East London, Billy has a street named after him in his home town – Bragg Close. This year Billy has been honoured with a pavement plaque on the Camden Music Walk Of Fame (previous recipients include Madness, Amy Winehouse, The Who, David Bowie, and The Kinks)
In 2019, Trapper Schoepp published a song with Bob Dylan called “On, Wisconsin” – making him the youngest musician to share a co-writing credit with the Nobel Prize Winner. The song led to a #1 trending article in Rolling Stone and 100+ tour dates worldwide.
The young Wisconsin songwriter has released 5 albums, collaborating with members of Wilco, The Raconteurs and The Jayhawks. He’s recently recorded at Johnny Cash’s historic CASH CABIN, creating a folk rock odyssey titled Siren Songs. PBS noted Trapper for his: “Story songs that explore and explode the conventions of rock and roll” while Rolling Stone France calls his latest a “Charming 100% Americana opus.”
Trapper has acted as a musical ambassador for rare disease research organization Harmony 4 Hope since 2015, inspired by his own battle with chronic pain. He’s also acted as an ambassador for Gibson Guitars, Guitars 4 Vets and Connecting to Cure.
Trapper has toured the world with artists like The Wallflowers, Old 97’s, The Jayhawks and Frank Turner and headlined tours across Europe/USA with stops at historic spaces like New York’s Town Hall, LA’s Roxy Theatre and SXSW.