We are honored to host The Kody Norris Show at West Art, for their first visit to Lancaster! They were awarded the SPGMA Entertainer of the year for good reason. Just as talented as they are entertaining, they're coming off a debut at the Grand Ol Opry earlier this year. And they're  finding themselves with a growing legion of fans craving the comfort that comes from their retro look, dynamic instrumentation, and thought-provoking lyrics. BUT THERE’S MORE! The Flatpick Earth Society, a duo made up a few Central PA favorites will also be hitting the stage. Jesse Eisenbise of Colebrook Road and maestro Gaving Horning have teamed up to blow our minds in the best way! Grab a friend, snag some tickets, and come join us! GET TICKETS HERE!

Details:

Doors open at 7 & the show will start promptly at 7:30.  We will have seating available for those that would like to sit. We will have beverages available for purchase at the show. For parking, there's a small lot across the street that may have some space. Beyond that, there is parking around Buchanan Park & F&M College. See you soon!

BIOS:

Kody Norris Show:

Whatever you do, don’t call The Kody Norris Show ‘retro.’
Because while the reigning SPBGMA Entertainers of the Year are known for the rhinestones that shine from their lapels and the fringe that hangs from their collars seem to conjure up memories of times gone by, The Kody Norris Show are very much directing their gaze forever forward.
Now, more than ever before.
The talented group, made up of frontman Kody Norris, Josiah Tyree, Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, and Charlie Lowman, finds themselves with a growing legion of fans craving the comfort that comes from their retro look, but equally craving dynamic instrumentation and thought-provoking lyrics – all of which can be heard throughout their epic new album Rhinestone Revival.  “There is a whole chapter of country music that's just kind of faded away,” The Kody Norris Show’s frontman once said. “I believe The Kody Norris Show has been instrumental in bringing back some of
that nostalgia and some of that classic look that country music and bluegrass music used to have.”

The foundations of the electrifying four-piece band can be found within the roots of Kody Norris himself, a once inquisitive youngster from Mountain City, Tennessee who would spend hours sitting in the passenger seat of his Uncle Jack’s Chevrolet El Camino listening to the entirety of The Stanley Brothers 16 Greatest Hits tape, wondering if he would ever be able to match the sweet harmonies coming through the speakers. It was those very harmonies that Norris also would recognize wavering through the rafters of the Baptist church he attended as a kid. There was a bluegrass quartet that would play in the Free Will Baptist Church, and soon Norris became infatuated with the music that could materialize from a
banjo and a guitar. So, at nine years old, he picked up the mandolin. And he never put it down.
It was a similar love affair of music for Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, who started playing classical violin in the fourth grade, but by the fifth grade, she knew it wasn’t for her. Instead, in a quest to differentiate herself from her musical counterparts in her grade school orchestra, she took up the fiddle. She began playing the festival circuit alongside the likes of the legendary Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers and soon became one of the most dynamic females on those festival stages. It was on that stage she eventually met her husband Kody, who had already gone on to play alongside the likes of Ralph Stanley, Ralph Stanley II, and Joe Isaacs throughout his already impressive career. In 2017, banjo extraordinaire Josiah Tyree signed on with The Kody Norris Show, and soon his old-time clawhammer style fit right into the bluegrass style that the band was becoming known for across the country. And when bass player Charlie Lowman joined in on the fun, armed with agiddiness and love for the music that he plays that soon became infectious, The Kody Norris Show as we now know it was complete. It was musical magic at its finest.
It’s this easy-going nature that became downright illuminated on 2017’s When I Get the Money Made, which was named Bluegrass Album of the Year by the National Traditional Country Music Association. The Kody Norris Show followed it up with 2019’s All Suited Up, which debuted at #7 on the Billboard charts. Now playing over 100 dates a year across the country and around the world, The Kody Norris Show have been part of the University of Chicago Folk Festival and are part of two weekly programs on the acclaimed RFD-TV's network, The Cumberland Highlanders Show and The Bluegrass Trail. But with the release of Rhinestone Revival comes a feeling that listeners have just begun to witness The Kody Norris Show’s very own revival, as the band finds themselves sprinkling their iconic rhinestones on a few different music genres to solidify their place on the musical landscape. And the fans can’t get enough.
In fact, it’s those fans that have raised The Kody Norris Show to a place in which they stand today, a place where the four-piece, multi-instrumentalist, bluegrass band are quickly becoming four of the most epic entertainers of our time. Add that to the songwriting displayed on the Kody Norris-penned “Baltimore I’m Leaving,” “Fiddler’s Rock,” “Please Tell Me Why,” and the infectious “Gotta Get My Baby Back” on Rhinestone Revival, and there is no doubt that The Kody Norris Show is as current as ever. They ain’t retro. They have something different. They have something uniquely theirs. They have something that makes them stand out.
“We want people to know who we are,” Norris once said.
And they will.

Flatpick Earth Society:

Flatpick Earth Society presents two of Pennsylvania’s elite guitarists allied to present a duo unlike any other in the region. Continuing on the influences of flatpicking greats such as Tony Rice, Norman Blake, and Doc Watson, the jazz sensibilities of Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and George Benson, Flatpick Earth Society brings traditional bluegrass and folk into a whole new light. The fusion of bluegrass, jazz, americana, and pop is the result of two musicians occupying different but completely complementary spaces in the music world.

​Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jesse Eisenbise has garnered local, regional, and national acclaim through his founding of contemporary bluegrass band, Colebrook Road. This has led Jesse to performances with many bluegrass greats including Billy Strings, headlining performances at Nashville’s Iconic Station Inn, and being the featured act at regional and national bluegrass festivals alike.

​Gavin Horning brings a lifetime of studying and performing jazz music professionally to this new musical endeavor. In just 15 years of playing guitar Gavin has been hired by many of Jazz’s modern icons such as Sean Jones, Warren Wolf, and countless others, while never forgetting his central PA roots and memories of hearing Colebrook Road perform as a 17-year-old kid, fueling a fire for folk and bluegrass. Deemed “Professor” by his friends, Gavin became an adjunct professor of music at the age of 24.

​Put on your tinfoil hats, throw all rationality out the window, and conspire with Flatpick Earth Society in modernizing one of America’s iconic art forms.