Zoe FitzGerald Carter will be sharing an evening with Nick Justice.
Singer/songwriter Zoe FitzGerald Carter began playing guitar and singing as a teenager in Washington D.C. Her first album, Waiting for the Earthquake, was released in 2018 and her next album, Waterlines, dropped on March 26, 2021. Ranging in style from folk to funk, the album features some of the finest musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known for her literary songwriting style and deep honey voice, reviews for the album have been stellar: "There aren’t any boring moments. They’re all well-crafted songs. Zoe FitzGerald Carter's 10-cut beauty of an LP is assured and catchy." -- Americana Highways Her latest album, Before the Machine, was released on June 7 of 2024. Inspired by memories of a pre-smart phone world, the title track explores how technology, and specifically smart phones, has irrevocably altered our experience of time and the album further showcases the artist’s vivid, literary sense of language while weaving a rich and confident fabric of folk, country, rock, blues and jazz.
Nick Justice hails from the Bronx, NY. He came out west in 1980 and fronted a few bands (Guns for Hire, Nick Justice Band, Chords of Fame) in the emerging cow punk era in southern California. Playing on bills with the Blasters, X, The Plimsouls, The Go Go’s, The Beat Farmers and The Bangles who were all going somewhere while he was going nowhere Justice fled to the Northwest living in Seatlle for most of the 90’s playing throughout the Northwest as a traveling troubadour for a decade mostly playing coffee houses, house concerts and juke joints. Justice came back to LA in 200o and quit the music business but never stopped writing. In 2015 he called up a few old friends like Greg Leisz, Bobby Cochrane and put out and EP “The Cry of the Street Prophet”. 4 records quickly followed in succession including 2019’s critically acclaimed “The Road Not Taken” with Richard Bredice (Jules Shear, Fallout Boy, Missiles of October, David Lindley) at the helm producing all 4 records. Justice’s newest release “Rope the Wind” charted at #1 on the Roots Music Report Top 50 Folk Rock Album Chart in April 2021.