Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward Trio

THIS SHOW HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO DECEMBER 3 , 2021. ALL TICKETS PURCHASED FOR FOR 2020 WILL BE HONORED FOR THE NEW DATE.

The musical partnership of guitarist Charlie Hunter and vocalist Lucy Woodward was forged under inauspicious, curveball-icious circumstances. In January 2018, shortly before he was scheduled to hit the road for a west coast tour with Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada, Hunter got word that Estrada’s visa had been denied by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Needing an emergency vocalist for the dates, Hunter reached out to Woodward, whom he knew through their mutual friends in the jazz/funk collective Snarky Puppy. “It was about four days before the tour,” Woodward remembers. “A mutual friend connected us, saying, ‘Why don’t you get Lucy to jump on it?’” Woodward, fresh off supporting her fourth solo album, 2016’s Til They Bang on the Door, was game; but she also knew that they only had a few days to build an entire set list. Once they decided what musical route we were going (blues, jazz, funk), Charlie started sending me links to Blind Willie Johnson and Bessie Smith tunes, things from the early Twenties. And he was like, ‘What songs have you always wanted to do?’ We went back and forth with about thirty ideas, and came up with a set, had like a two-hour rehearsal, and did our first show the same day.” They’ve been going strong ever since.