Heavy Lidders with Bobby Lee with support TBC

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Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders takes the freaked improvisation of Alexander’s long-running instrumental band - DWLVS / Dire Wolves - into the world of song. Heady songwriting, ethereal jazz and krauty blues stomps are all featured. The Lidders include members of Elkhorn and Bardo Pond and are currently based in Philadelphia PA.

”Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders is a refreshing take on familiar sounds. There are clear references to the hazy, glazey Crazy Horse days of Neil Young, as well as nods to the stylings of bands like the Meat Puppets and Dinosaur Jr. Alexander’s penchant for heady songwriting is pervasive yet subtle, a welcome shift that creates the kind of space necessary for the instrumentation to take focus and seep deep into the brain.” - Mike Mannix, Psych Out! WXNA, Nashville

Alexander has been frittering around the edges of the psychedelic underground for several decades, having played in a host of groups like Jackie-O Motherfucker, The Iditarod, and Black Forest/Black Sea. He has also been an arts venue programming director, booking agent, record label owner, FM radio disc jockey, tour manager, espresso bar cafe owner, and curator of several international music festivals such as Terrastock. He has worked in arts museums from Baltimore to Providence to Pittsburgh to San Francisco. Jeffrey also followed the Grateful Dead as a taper, coast to coast, for most of the 1980s.

His new group, The Heavy Lidders, distills many of these disparate interests into a vibrant balmy stew. Recent recordings have featured a slew of special musical guests including Marissa Nadler, Geologist/Animal Collective, Isaiah Collier, Kate Wright/Movietone, PG Six, Rosali Middleman, Chris Forsyth, and Jeff Tobias/Sunwatchers + Modern Nature. As well as artwork from Allison Filice, Brian Chippendale, Jake Blanchard and Spencer Hicks. Heavy Lidders have performed at several festivals including multiple appearances at both Deep In The Valley and Milwaukee Psych Fest.

"Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders return to Deep In The Valley! Bending psychedelics and space rock into new dimensions, the band evokes Träd, Gräs & Stenar launched into the cosmos." - Andy French, Raven Sings The Blues

For this performance Heavy Lidders will be joined by cosmic country explorer Bobby Lee.