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Blues & Americana concert scheduled at The Gathering Place on Feb. 1

The Dany Franchi Band and The Kara Grainger Band to perform

by Tom Perry

Marietta, Ohio (01/23/2019) — Marietta College is hosting An Evening of Blues & Americana Music at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1, at the newly renovated Gathering Place - at the corner of Seventh and Butler streets.

Featuring The Dany Franchi Band and The Kara Grainger Band, the event will benefit music education. Admission is $10. Beer, wine and food will be available at the cash bar.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

Franchi was born in Genoa, Italy, and is widely considered one of the best young blues musicians on the scene today. In 2014, he recorded "I Believe," in Ohio along with "International Blues Challenge" winner Sean Carney.

Between 2016 and 2017, Franchi performed at several prestigious blues festivals such as the Blues From The Top in Colorado and the Dallas International Guitar Festival in Texas.

In February 2017, the Texas Blues Legend Anson Funderburgh and Don Ritter '81 of Category5 Amps decided to produce Franchi's third album "Problem Child," recording at the world-famous Wire Recording Studio in Austin Texas with Grammy® award-winning engineer Stuart Sullivan.

Grainger is an Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter who has toured around the globe in places like Japan, Indonesia, India, Switzerland, Germany, England and the U.S.

She is known for her sultry, mesmerizing vocals and fiery approach to blues and slide guitar. She has opened shows for Peter Frampton, Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Taj Mahal, Marc Cohn and Eric Johnson.

The event is a presentation of Station House Records, Marietta College and the Mid-Ohio Valley Blues, Jazz & Folk Music Society.

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers 49 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.

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