Austin Stambaugh
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Austin Stambaugh

Plus Ben de la Cour

Presented by: Hey! Manchester
0 MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ The Castle Hotel (info)
P Friday 2nd May, 2025
N Door time: 7:30pm
. 18 and over
C Music - General

Event information

Ohio balladeer and story writer Austin Stambaugh is enriched with an authenticity that is magnetically keen. A modern pioneer of folk storytelling, his work has been called ‘timeless and nuanced’ by Lilly Hiatt who wrote, ‘enjoy with the lights low’. Folk singer Tim Easton wrote: ‘Austin Stambaugh is the best flatpicking songwriter you’ve never heard of, and I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in my Redwing boots and say it.’

Stambaugh’s aesthetic is derived from his fascination with plain-spoken speech, timeless standards, and terrifying compositions that hold a listener in suspense. His artistry is displayed in his highly acclaimed studio album Midwest Supernatural (2023). Co-produced by Benjamin Tod of Lost Dog Street Band, the record resonates with critics and fans alike and led to collaborations with seminal modern folk archive Western AF, as well as supporting Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band on tour.

The following spring of 2024, Austin released electric visions of live recordings with his band The Electric Weepers. Elusive and shadowy, heavy and aloof, their debut document Way Down Here On Earth (2024) is released to East Nashville’s independent punk label Anti-Corp Records, and is the premier model of the obscure country music sound that stems from the northeast Ohio region.

Originally from northeast Ohio, he is now located in Nashville, TN, where he is busy writing and recording records. When not fronting his band The Electric Weepers he performs solo for audiences both regionally and internationally with a Martin D-35 uniquely his own.

Special guest is Ben de la Cour. Ben de la Cour’s visceral songwriting grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go. Weaving evocative stories of desperate characters with his signature ‘Americanoir’ sound, de la Cour shines a raw, empathetic, and at times bleak light on the human condition.

After receiving praise from American Songwriter, Twangville, The Telegraph and NPR for his 2023 release Sweet Anhedonia, de la Cour returns with his heart-wrenching sixth album, New Roses. A collection of what he describes as ‘“night songs,’ the album marks a sonic evolution into stranger, heavier, synth-inspired territory. This shift adds new layers to his delicately fingerpicked story songs, creating something that is at once soaring and beautiful, hammering and claustrophobic, yet ultimately hopeful and resilient.

‘A friend took me to see Ben de la Cour at a little hole in the wall in Nashville. It didn’t take long to realise I was in the presence of greatness. He has much to say, and knows how to say it as only a true poet can. You owe it to yourself to check him out. He is important. You need this bright young talent now more than ever. We all need Ben de la Cour.’ – Lucinda Williams

Tickets

General Admission

8 tickets available

Total price: £13.20
Ticket price: £12.00, Booking fee: £1.20

Venue information

MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ The Castle Hotel
0 66 Oldham Street
Manchester
M4 1LE
> www.heymanchester.com

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