Tommy Jordan and Rob Sutherland 6 pm on Sunday, February 2, 2025 Tommy Jordan and Rob Sutherland Tommy Jordan and Rob Sutherland Tommy Jordan writes: Tommy Jordan and Rob Sutherland return to No. 3 Railroad St Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, at 6:00 for their first show together since performing for the virtual North Georgia Folk Festival in 2020. Tommy (guitar, banjo, vocals) is one half of the folk-rock duo MrJordanMrTonks and Rob (mandolin, cello) plays gypsy jazz with the Bones of St. Micheals. Together, they have been teaching the Old Time String Band class at Good Dirt Ceramics Studio since 2015 where they have taught students how to sing while playing guitar, mandolin, and ukulele. Tommy and Rob will bring a collection of songs from the Great American Songbook as well as tunes from Appalachia, New England, Canada, and Ireland. Hope to see you on Sunday February 2, 2025. Doors open at 5:30. Music from 6:00-8:00. Suggested donation is $10. BYO beverages and snacks. Tommy Jordan does guitar, banjo, mandolin and vocals. He is well-known in the Athens/Atlanta acoustic music circles and has been performing in Athens and the surrounding area consistently since arriving in Athens in late 1976. He currently plays with the acoustic-electric duo, MrJordanMrTonks, along with William Tonks, and the well-established traditional acoustic band, String Theory. He was an integral part of the early-1980s heyday of the Athens music scene with his roles in Turtle Bay Band and Men in Trees and also as a solo artist. With Turtle Bay, he played at the famous church steeple party where REM made their debut. While working at the El Dorado Cafe in the Morton Theater in Athens, he got to witness firsthand the B-52s learning to play their instruments and developing their unique sound. Tommy's collaboration with William Tonks (MrJordanMrTonks) represents a move away from traditional roots music to high intensity guitar playing and tight harmony vocals. He is the only musician to have performed at every one of the Athens Human Rights Festivals, as well as playing at AthFest, North Georgia Folk Festival, the Melting Point/Foundry, the Georgia Theatre, Eddie's Attic, Red Clay Theater, the 40 Watt Club and, in Nashville, the Bluebird Cafe [we could add No. 3 Railroad Street in Arnoldsville as well]. Tommy is the president of the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society (AFMDS) and has been the director of the North Georgia Folk Festival since 2008. He speaks fluent acoustic and electric guitars, old time/clawhammer banjo and mandolin. Current bands include MrJordanMrTonks, String Theory, Minglewood (Grateful Dead cover band with his son, Ben Jordan), WildJordan TonksCats (9-piece rock band), and various other ad-hoc and semi-permanent ensembles. He taught a clawhammer banjo for a number of years at Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp. He currently teaches guitar and music lessons privately and at the Good Dirt Clay Studio as part of the "Old Time String Band" class where he has given dozens of folks their musical starts in both classroom and individual settings. ? Before retiring from the University of Georgia in 2016, Tommy conducted research and taught photogrammetry and remote sensing for 35 years at the Department of Geography where he was the Associate Director of the Center for Geospatial Research. He is a nationally certified Photogrammetrist and served as president of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) in 2019-2020. He continues to maintain his Part 107 Drone Pilots License. - From tombobd41.wixsite.com/tommyjordan Tommy Jordan on the web: tombobd41.wixsite.com/tommyjordan and facebook.com/tombob.d41/ Rob Sutherland is a potter, a co-owner of Good Dirt Clay Studio in Athens with his wife Jess, a home baker (background in molecular biology), a great string instrument player and teacher, and probably a lot more I have not yet discovered or are certain about. Rob Sutherland on the web. facebook.com/gooddirtathens, gooddirt.net, Athens Cooks Tommy Jordan and Rob Sutherland, Sunday at 6 pm on February 2, 2025 Suggested donation to the band is $10. Donations are also gladly accepted by House back to top Modified 29 January, 2025, by Glenn Galau   |   Web Design by Glenn Galau