PATIO SHOW: Jesse James Deconto (The Pinkerton Raid)

- ALL AGES - LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE Purchase Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/s/38223172?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e233_tv4_tp1_a1demo0e1s17br Leading up to Independence Day, The Pinkerton Raid’s songwriter Jesse James DeConto will release “The Fight for Freedom was in VOGUE,” about Lee Miller, Solange D’Ayen and the Parisian artists who stood up to the Nazi occupation in the ways they knew how. “VOGUE” is among a series of narrative-driven resistance singles from his upcoming full-length album, IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, TELL THEM, singing his story as a dad trying to hold onto hope and imagine a future for his kids in the face of American fascism and climate catastrophe. Back home in Durham, NC, with partners like Indivisible, Jesse often leads singalongs of classic protest songs from Bob Dylan, NENA, Neil Young, 4 Non-Blondes, Crowded House and others. “The sane response to tyrants is to sing,” Jesse says on “VOGUE,” inspired by a famous quote by revolutionary painter Pablo Picasso. On Wednesday, July 1, he’ll bringing his “protest songs with Big Dad Energy" to the Grey Eagle patio in Asheville's River Arts District.