Americana Joy
Americana Joy at Bigfoot Lodge is a FREE monthly music series.
Join musical legacy artist Matt Axton (son of Hoyt Axton) along with Grand Ole Country Bunker as they bring a new crop of the best original Americana artists to the City of Angels each month. From bluegrass to folk to southern rock and everything in between, Americana Joy takes great pride In creating a free community based showcase that gives a high quality platform to local, regional and touring independent musicians.
This event is FREE and tickets are not required.
UPCOMING
Date & time
Friday, April 17th · 8pm - 1am PST
Location
Bigfoot Lodge
3172 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
This Months Artists
Lizzy Passion And The cowboy assassins ( 11pm )
Abby Posner ( 10pm )
Francesca Brown ( 9pm )
DJ Max Maxstofferson ( 8pm )
Upcoming Artists
Abby posner
-Los Angeles-
GENRE - Americana
WEBSITE -https://www.abbyposner.com/
Abby Posner has been a working musician in Los Angeles for the past 18 + years. She is best known for her ability to play nearly any instrument that she can get her hands on, twisting genres, and pushing the boundaries of folk, roots, electronic, and pop music making her "Genre Fluid." If you have seen Abby perform live, you know she can play a fierce lead-blues guitar solo, or throw down a complex Earl Scruggs banjo riff. You also may have spotted her playing drums, mandolin, or bass while using her looping pedal. In addition to her versatility, she puts passion and soul into everything she does. Posner's live shows are simply mesmerizing. Her energy is comparable to Chris Thile of Nickel Creek, and The Lumineers. Posner’s songs range from intimate haunting folk songs, to upbeat festival/dance your pants off hits.
This CalArts music graduate has composed & produced music for commercials/TV, films, and radio shows all over the globe (including Hulu’s Maggie, The Fosters, This American Life, The Art of More, and Last Tango in Halifax, custom songs for Facebook, Viacom-CBS, and CW’s Kung Fu). She also has music placed in commercials and TV shows all over China, Sweden, The UK, and Australia. Posner appeared in two episodes of GLEE on season four playing banjo and guitar, and the Freeform show Famous In Love playing banjo, as well as performing live several times on KCAL 9 news and Good Day LA.
Abby has also scored the music for multiple films (Across Land Across Sea, Through Their Eyes, award winning short animation Elizabeth Sees, and recently scored the Award-winning Documentary Lady Buds) while playing and touring all over the US. In 2019 Posner played banjo and sang Wagon Wheel as a featured principal role in Bank Of America's ad campaign for the Ken Burn’s PBS Country Music Documentary along side Dom Flemons and Amythyst Kiah.
After signing with Gary Calamar’s licensing company Laurel Canon in 2016, Abby Posner has gained major recognition in the LA music scene. Opening for such iconic acts as PHRANC, Sierra Hull, and Dustbowl Revival. She has released multiple albums under her name, and Abby & The Myth, and recently released her first full length album under Blackbird Record Label in 2023 titled Second Chances.
Abby Posner teamed up with Ships Have Sailed to write hit song Get Loud in 2023. Get Loud continues to Chart the Alternative Rock/indie Radio charts, and won the grand prize in the USA Songwriter Competition in 2023.
In 2020 Abby Posner won the Carl Gage "Give me Shelter in Place" Songwriting Award through the Topanga Folk Festival for her original song Blind Spots, and she received the runner up for her song Emergency Use Only for the 18th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards. She was honored to land Official Showcases at Folk Alliance International in 2022 and 2024 after signing with her booking agency Baker Booking (now Rockwood Booking.)
Posner was an official Showcase Artist at Americana Fest 2023, and her music video Quiet On Sunset was recently featured on CMT.
lizzy passion and the cowboy assassins
-Agoura Hills, CA-
Genre - Country
Lizzy Passion & The Cowboy Assassins is a California-based band known for their folk-rock sound and "storytelling honesty". Led by singer-songwriter Lizzy Passion, the group has carved out a niche in the vibrant music scene of the canyons northwest of Los Angeles. Their music is often described as a powerful blend of Fleetwood Mac, Reba McEntire, and The Lone Bellows. Passion makes great music while fostering a niche scene based in the canyons northwest of Los Angeles. There is a great group of people who work and support one another up there. I’ll be exploring it more in the coming months.
francesca Brown
-Idlewyld,CA-
Genre - Country
Website - https://www.francescabrownmusic.com/
Singer-songwriter Francesca Brown is a California native, with midwestern roots. Her sound is a cosmic mash-up that lies somewhere between Emmylou Harris and Loretta Lynn.
Brown’s early life wasn’t always easy moving between southern California and Illinois. Much of her youth was spent with her single mother and three other siblings in rural Illinois. Ballet and singing were her outlets early on.
On weekends she would attend local dive bars with her mother and sing 90’s pop hits via karaoke. Home life became a serious challenge, watching her mother struggle with abusive relationships and money . From her teen years on, in many ways Francesca raised herself. Work ethic was important and she jumped in at an early age and kept on with this cycle never slowing down. After a short stint in NYC, Brown made her way back west. She settled in Los Angeles where she worked several waitressing jobs and even did some work as a photo double in film and tv. During her early twenties she found herself regularly escaping the hustle and bustle of the city. She spent much of her time in Topanga Canyon and nearby beaches indulging Jack Kerouac and listening to folk music. It was during this time when she began writing music, and knew she had found her calling.