Cindy Cashdollar grew up in Woodstock, where her family had been for three generations; her father ran The Locust Grove Dairy, and she was thirteen during the 1969 Woodstock Festival. She was playing bluegrass in local bands not long after, working with Levon Helm and Rick Danko before Nashville eventually came calling. On Saturday, August 29, she returns to Maverick Concert Hall for an evening called “Two Many Guitars” — a homecoming that carries the full weight of that history.
About the Show
The night runs in two parts. The High Low Duo (Cameron Greider and Jack Petruzzelli on electric guitars) opens with a set that includes Ravel’s “Mother Goose” and other classical works. The Duo’s album on Sono Luminus takes those same guitars, inspired by Chet Atkins and Les Paul, into their own arrangements of Ravel and Bartók; the combination earns its surprises. The main set, “Two Many Guitars,” stretches across what the artists describe as “a timeline of vocal and instrumental performances from the past 100 years,” drawing from Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Hoagy Carmichael, Chet Atkins, and Lonnie Johnson. Joining Cashdollar and Petruzzelli onstage are Karl Allweier on bass, Justin Guip on drums, and Will Bryant on keys and vocals.
Cashdollar’s biography covers most of the essential ground in American roots music. She spent nine years with Asleep at the Wheel, winning five Grammys during that run, before returning to a career of high-profile collaborations: steel guitar on Bob Dylan’s Grammy-winning “Time Out of Mind,” sessions with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ryan Adams, and Van Morrison. She was the first woman inducted into the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s “Nashville Cats” roster in 2022. Petruzzelli co-produced Joan Osborne’s Grammy-nominated “Bring It On Home” and co-founded The Fab Faux; Greider studied at Yale, the New School, and Mannes Conservatory and has worked with Joan Baez, Chris Cornell, and Natalie Merchant.
Venue & Logistics
Maverick Concert Hall is a historic outdoor pavilion at 120 Maverick Road in Woodstock, the Hudson Valley town where Cashdollar’s family put down roots long before she ever touched a Dobro. For a show that traces acoustic tradition this carefully, an open-air setting in Woodstock is exactly the right frame. The show begins at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets
Reserved hall seats are $50 or $35; partial-obstruction seats are $30 or $27; general admission outdoors is $20; student tickets are $10. Buy tickets.