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OFOAM & the Egyptian Theater Foundation are bringing Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones to Ogden not only to provide great music but to support the preservation of Ogden’s beautiful Peery’s Egyptian Theater, one of only a handful of Egyptian Theaters still standing, one of two existing “atmospheric” ceilings that currently exist, and Utah’s only remaining bona-fide Movie Palace. The building façade needs repairs, from the leaking canopy, to the plaster damaged exterior and columns.

Repairs will be accomplished with the oversight and approval of Ogden’s Historic Society. Plans are underway for the repairs and we need your help! A portion of our ticket sales ($18 adv./$20 day of) and any direct donations will be put to work to continue Ogden’s love affair with this beautiful venue. For tickets and more information visit the Peery's Egyptian Theater website.

Dave Alvin has been receiving critical acclaim for his song tracks on the popular TV show “Justified”. He was picked by the show’s music supervisor because Dave’s voice was the voice that he felt would be playing in the main character’s head.

"Alvin headlined opening night for the Ogden Music Festival three years ago, playing in a folk duo with Chris Miller. Miller and Alvin will be plugged in with their full band, The Guilty Ones, (Brad Fordham and Lisa Pankratz round out the band) for the Egyptian show.

“You know Dave likes to say there is soft folk music and loud folk music, and he likes to play both,” said Michelle Tanner, founder of OFOAM. “With this Egyptian show, we’re having him back to Ogden to play the loud kind.”" Linda Brady, Ogden Standard-Examiner

"Dave Alvin is steeped in Americana – not just the genre but a deep river of American myth that keeps giving him characters to write about. Former guitarist for roots heroes the Blasters, Alvin fills his 11th album with small towns, highways and losers we imagine he’s encountered on countless tours. Though Alvin has often switched between electric and acoustic, almost everything here is plugged in – above all Alvin, an underrecognized guitar hero. Two songs are addictive: the tear-jerker "Black Rose of Texas" and "Johnny Ace Is Dead," a tragicomedy powered by Steve Mugalian's backbeat and Alvins' burning Strat." Rolling Stone

Also back by popular demand, last year's local darlings of the festival will again be gracing our stage with the special brand of magic that is reserved for Wayward Molly. 

Kate MacLeod's highly acclaimed songs often precede her as other artists sing her songs on stages across the country. Hear this songstress who creates addictingly singable songs, songs that compel music publications such as Sing Out Magazine to claim that Kate MacLeod "channels the spirit of the great Carter Family classics."

In Tim O’Brien’s music, things come together. The uncanny intersection of traditional and contemporary elements in his songwriting, his tireless dedication to a vast and still-expanding array of instruments, and his ongoing commitment to place himself in as many unique and challenging musical scenarios as possible has made him a key figure in today’s thriving roots music scene – and well beyond it.

Existing in the tension between tradition and frontier, Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest winner and Prairie Home Companion guest, Run Boy Run, truly exceeds the sum of its parts as touches of classical, jazz, and folk express themselves through the old-time core of the band’s unique sound.

Back by popular demand and a only a few weeks before they grace the stage at the 40th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the darlings of last year's Ogden Music Festival, Elephant Revival returns! Brought together by a unified sense of purpose - the spirit of five souls working as one, in harmony, creating sounds they could never produce alone.

"Working in Shifts" was born in informal jam sessions in living rooms, on patios and around campfires covering Dylan, The Dead and The Stones with an acoustic guitar, a banjo and a lead singer who has consumed bucketfuls of gravel, both vocally and metaphorically in life. On a ski weekend in Grand Targhee, Wyoming, they met a slap-happy stand-up bass player who morphed them into a rockabilly machine that takes folk, Americana, rock, country and their own originals, and turns them all into something that feels like Ogden, Utah...the place that Al Capone once said was a bit too wild for his taste.

Wayward Molly is Jani Gamble, Allison Ottley, Nicki Singleton and Mona Stevens. The three vocalists were thrown together for a one time performance in 2009, and although they come from varied musical backgrounds, they blended so well and had such a blast that they decided to give it another go.

Drawing on an eclectic mix of folk, Celtic, and whatever else they feel like, they are currently performing in local venues. Wayward Molly recently had their "coming out" concert in March 2012 to a packed house and two standing ovations while raising funds for the American Cancer Society.

The Royal We is a group of music lovers that have a great deal of fun together on stage and it shows. Their influences range from pop, country, blues, soul and funk and their performances include harmonies from two female leads that have been singing together for over a decade.

Young in age and conception, Elephant Revival carries a fresh sense of creativity and inspiration that is felt by people of every generation. The neo-acoustic quintet is on the cutting edge of an emerging new genre that is known as 'Transcendental Folk.'