Adeem the Artist
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
with special Guest Heath James Hardin
Wednesday, March 25
Doors 7:00 PM / Showtime 8:00 PM
All Ages
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Adeem the Artist
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All tickets are general admission. Tickets are will call only (no physical tickets) and nonrefundable. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first-served basis.
Photo by Peter Ericksson
Harvested in the roaming hills of the lower piedmont mountains, Adeem the Artist shows teeth on “notes from inside.” In short bursts of literary folk songs that hearken to early lo-fi Mountain Goats albums, Adeem traverses the complexities of pinball, suicide, and grand larceny with humor and heaviness.
Frenetic and electrifying, the new collection nests at the intersection of stand-up comedy, social commentary, and well-seasoned country songs that follow the likes of Tyler Childers in expanding the genre.
Recorded in three hours at Pink Moon Studios in Knoxville, TN and released one week later, it is brash in its urgency and unflinching in its vulnerability as it reimagines the soundscape of the greater American South.
While controversial, it isn’t inflammatory. It holds the distance between listeners with a gentle but not inattentive touch. Their thematic albums and confounding one-person-show invite audiences to lead with curiosity and disarm their expectations of the other.
Heath James Hardin writes songs derived from the landscapes and people of rural Pennsylvania. He is a multi-instrumentalist that utilizes influences from bluegrass, delta blues, folk, and Americana styles to create songs that reflect an earned wisdom and a life well-examined. Employing banjo, resonator guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin and ukelele, Hardin writes songs that challenge stereotypical country and folk styles.
Previously recording as Olds Sleeper, he has released over 20 albums since 2008. His album, New Year’s Poem was selected as one of the “ALBUMS OF THE DECADE 2010-2020” by Saving Country Music, which also hailed him as “One of the best songwriters of our generation.”
No Depression has written that Hardin "has worked long and hard over the years to cultivate a most unusual soundscape of experimental and rustic folk, old soul Americana, and lo-fi minimalist roots.”
Hardin’s new self-titled release "Heath James Hardin" is the first he has released under his own name, and is available at http://www.heathjameshardin.bandcamp.com
