Poi Rogers – FREE SHOW

Thu Aug 08, 2024        7:30pm - All Ages

• Venue Website:

  https://www.templetonmercantile.com/

• Artist Website:

  http://www.poirogers.com/

Somewhere in-between the tropical lounges of 1930s Los Angeles and the honky tonk beer joints of rural 1950s California, you’ll find Poi Rogers. Hailing from Santa Cruz, CA, the duo performs original and vintage country & western swing, Hawaiian steel guitar ballads and cowboy tunes.

Gerard Egan and Carolyn Sills won a 2024 Ameripolitan Award in Austin, TX, for Western Swing Group of the Year with their other group, The Carolyn Sills Combo. They are both inductees into the Sacramento Western Swing Hall of Fame, and Carolyn was named the Academy of Western Artists’ 2021 Western Swing Female Vocalist of the Year. They have released four albums and one doughnut to date with The Carolyn Sills Combo and will release their first Poi Rogers album in 2024.

Poi Rogers features Gerard doubling on acoustic guitar and his 1954 Fender triple neck steel guitar with Carolyn on standup bass, their timeless harmonies anchoring the show.