Event Price: $15
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:00 pm
Davey O. is an award winning and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Buffalo, NY. His work has been recognized by his selection as a New Folk Songwriting Finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in 2013, as a 2015 Finalist in the 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, and as a 2016 & 2017 nominee for the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation Jim Lauderdale Songwriter of the Year Award. His 2017 release, “A Bright Horizon Line” was well received by radio and by music publications around the globe, debuting as a Top 20 album on the Folk DJ Charts, and receiving glowing reviews in several music publications, including the pages of what is considered to be “the journal of Roots Music” – No Depression magazine.
His previous release, “No Passengers” (2014), was counted among the Top 100 Contemporary Folk Albums of 2014 on the Roots Music Reports, and among the “Best of 2014” lists of WHRW (Binghamton, NY), WAMC (Albany, NY), The Sundilla Radio Hour (Auburn, AL), WMSC (Montclair, NJ), Radio Crystal Blue (Tacoma, WA), WVPE (Elkhart, IN).
In June of 2020, Davey released a collection of new music via his website under the title of “The Share Project”, with all download proceeds donated to FeedMore WNY – his local food bank.
In August of 2023, Davey released a new 6 song EP titled “Some Days”, which has been receiving positive press in notable music publications such as “Americana Highways”, steady airplay on Folk and Roots radio throughout the Northeastern & Midwestern U.S., and was selected as a 2023 favorite by Folk DJ’s Charlie Silvestri of NJ based podcast “Up Close & Acoustic”, and Kelly Walker, host of the nationally syndicated NPR show, “The Sundilla Radio Hour”.
Davey currently resides in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, NY with his partner, and their cats..
For more info, please visit – www.daveyo.com
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2016 & 2017 Nominee – SAMF Jim Lauderdale Songwriter of the Year Award
Finalist – 2015 Mid Atlantic Song Contest
Selected Artist – 2015 NERFA Suzi Wollenburg DJ Showcase
Selected Artist – 2014 Passim Campfire Festival, Cambridge, MA
Official Showcase Selection – 2011 Folk Alliance Conference
New Folk Finalist – 2013 Kerrville Folk Festival
2013 Best New Artist – Radio Crystal Blue (Tacoma, WA)
Member of RISA – Rhode Island Songwriter’s Association
Member of SAW – Songwriter’s Association of Washington, D.C.
“One of these artists who takes a modicum of musical coal and squeezes it hard enough to produce some diamonds is the acclaimed singer-songwriter Davey O who has supported many top tier artists throughout his career. His new ten-song collection “…a bright horizon line,” is a continuation of this concise singer-songwriter’s testament of absorbing story songs.” – John Apice, No Depression
“On “Testing For Rust,” Davey O. crafts intimate, folk-and country-based slices of a life examined. With a journalist’s eye for detail and poet’s ear for the well-turned observation, Davey finds the universal in the particular, turning day-to-day minutiae into dusty paeans to the indomitability of the human spirit.” – Jeff Miers, The Buffalo News
“a rare voice for the actual struggling everyday people of this world–not filtered through legend or tradition, but as actually and personally experienced” – Sarah Craig, Manager, Caffe Lena
“Acoustic Harvest had the pleasure of having Davey O. grace our stage, giving a wonderful opening set for Linda McRae. He is an astute artist, with an insightful and thought provoking sensibility; a strong voice and songs which immerse his audiences in the stories of everyday life, hardship, history and love. And in all my years of presenting, I don’t think I’ve ever quite heard such important, beautiful and heartfelt words of gratitude to the audience for supporting live music and all the working artists of the world.” – Lillian Wauthier, Artistic Director, Acoustic Harvest, Toronto, Canada