Featuring music by
Award-Winning Singer-Songwriters:
Joe Peters and Linda Hicks and Bishop Davidson For tickets, interviews, and further press info please contact:
Mandy Cassiano at 352.543.5400 or cedarkeyarts@bellsouth.net
Please visit Old Florida Celebration of the Arts official website www.cedarkeyartsfestival.com INDIANA AND TENNESSEE MUSICIANS
BRING THEIR ACOUSTIC MUSIC TO CEDAR KEY, FLORIDA On Sunday, January 15, 2012, the 2nd annual "Acoustical Afternoon for the Arts" benefit concert and silent auction will be held from 3pm-5pm at the Island Room Restaurant in Cedar Key, Florida. The silent auction will showcase pieces from a number of art festival artists including a live painting performance by well-known artist Susan Dauphinee of Cedar Key.
There will be a variety of appetizers served, a no-host bar will be available, and doors will open early at 2:30pm. Tickets are $20 each and go on sale December 15th. Proceeds will promote the 2012 Old Florida Celebration of the Arts, a juried fine art festival that has been happening in Cedar Key every April for the past 48 years. Reduced funding has made it necessary to raise additional monies to insure the continuation of the fine arts festival. Last year`s first benefit concert with the silent auction was very successful and tickets sold out early.
The Cedar Key Arts Center, a non-profit organization that promotes the arts in the small gulf coastal community, is the coordinating sponsor for the festival. The musicians volunteering their time and talents for this benefit are Joe Peters and Linda Hicks (West Lafayette, IN) and Bishop Davidson (Nashville, TN). Joe Peters has released five CDs of original music since 1998, and can often be found playing in the Hoosier state. Joe grew up in the Midwest during the late 60s and early 70s, and his songs hearken back to a time when young people sought the experience of peace, love and adventure and expressed this search in their music. 
Joe Peters and Linda Hicks
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Linda Hicks found her niche in the folk music scene, drawing from the influences of bluegrass, old-time, celtic, traditional, and contemporary folk music. Linda and Joe often perform together as a duo, and have just released a joint album, A Thousand Ways. In addition, Joe has also just released a new Joedai Warriors album, Over The Edge. Bishop Davidson is a newly-formed duo comprised of MJ Bishop and WT Davidson. MJ hails from Michigan`s Upper Peninsula and, after spending 30 years in Seattle, moved to Nashville in the Spring of 2010 to further hone her songwriting skills and begin work on her fourth album. She continues to write in the Americana vein, her music being laced with the sweet, familiar melodies of folk. 
Bishop Davidson
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WT was born and raised in Iowa City, IA, where he cut his teeth playing at the Mill and the Sanctuary while still in high school. His influences include a great deal of traditional jazz artists like Jack Teagarden and Fats Waller, bluesmen like Bill Broonzy, the older and more soulful country of the Merles - Travis and Haggard, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and a raft of Motown and Stax records and of course a lasting Beatles problem. After moving to Nashville in 1974, WT has had cuts by Ray Charles, Crystal Gayle, Michael Johnson, Gary Stewart and Ray Stevens, to name a few. For a look and a listen: Joe Peters - www.reverbnation.com/joepeters - Linda Hicks - www.lindahicksmusic.com ~ MJ Bishop - www.sonicbids.com/mjbishop ~ WT Davidson - www.reverbnation.com/wtdavidson | 