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Lee Dewyze w/ Eric Pedigo & Kathryn Dean
May 19, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm
An evening with Lee Dewyze and local favorite Eric Pedigo and touring artist Kathryn Dean on May 19th is coming to Fountain Square Brewery. Early Bird Tickets & VIP Packages on sale 3/4/17 on Eventbrite.
Born in Mount Prospect, IL, one of four children, Lee DeWyze discovered music and quickly developed a passion at a young age. He cites Cat Stevens’ Tea For The Tillerman and Paul Simons’ Graceland as two of the albums that changed his life. As a teen Lee played guitar, piano and the drums and it was not long before he started to write his own songs. “I discovered that I could turn my thoughts and ideas into a clever song or line. I fell in love,” recalls Lee. “I would sit around and write funny or witty songs to make my friends or family laugh.” DeWyze was crowned the winner of American Idol’s Season 9 in 2010, DeWyze had a stint working as both a paint salesman and trading floor clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Before he was 20, he recorded two albums for an independent label in Chicago: So I’m Told and Slumberland. He made his major label debut in 2010 with Live It Up. His critically lauded Frames followed in 2013 and his song “Fight” reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot AC charts for 10 weeks straight. The video, which Lee produced and created, won first place at the Los Angeles Indie Film Festival. 2014 was a banner year for Lee as he made major headway as a songwriter. His song “Blackbird Song” was placed in the show The Walking Dead. The song racked up more then 3 million YouTube views, 2 million Spotify streams and was selected as one of the Top 10 most influential placements in 2014 by the Music Writers Guild of America. The same year Lee landed a #1 song in Ireland with his song “Lullaby” which was covered by Ronan Keating. He also scored a #3 hit in Italy when his “Magnetic Heart” was recorded by Marco Mengioni.
Lee DeWyze will embark on an ambitious national tour in 2016 in support Oil & Water. “I love my fans. I truly do. They are the fuel to my engine. I want the audience to feel what I’m saying. To know it’s real and honest.” With the release of Oil & Water Lee DeWyze takes a no holds barred approach and bares it all and the results are well worth the journey. “I write what I like to hear and how I feel. I am not defining what kind of composer or artist I am. My audience can do that. Because the minute you start to concern yourself with what you’re ‘supposed’ to be doing, you start to second-guess who you are. And that is one thing I am very sure of.”
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