Victorians Midnight Café collaborates with country music maverick Jamie Lyn to bring Columbus audiences a steady lineup of roots music by local bands. If you belly up to the bar at Vic’s on the first and third Friday of the month at happy hour, you’ll be sure to hear some raucously original neo-traditional country music (and you may even win a jar of homemade sweet pickles in the weekly raffle). The first Honky Tonk Happy Hour is Friday, February 5, from 5-7:30 pm, featuring The Tin Hearts and Jamie Lyn & Fort Knox.
The Honky Tonk Happy Hour is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Jamie Lyn, an Ohio native and a veteran of the Brooklyn Country music scene. It is Jamie Lyn’s personal mission to restore the soul of country music, one song at a time, and the Honky Tonk Happy Hour seeks to provide a good time stomping ground for cutting edge, neo-traditional country across a variety of sub-genres: bluegrass, western swing, country rock, classic country, alt country and country-folk. Honky Tonk Happy Hour appeals to music fans who hold bubblegum ‘radio country” and the commercial Nashville Sound in the contempt it deserves. However, those who come to Vic’s seeking the authentic soul of American roots music will leave this show fully satisfied.
Local alt-country- auteurs The Tin Hearts kick off the Happy Hour with “Stories [that] percolate from the ether; warbling through vacuum tubes and amplifiers” for a uniquely informed country sound that is as deeply traditional as it is strikingly innovative. Tin Hearts front man Matt Sullivan is a singer and songwriter of considerable acclaim. His band of highly skilled musicians includes pianist Angela Sutton, guitarist Andy Frederick, Ryan Combs on bass and drummer Mark Sims. The Other Paper writes, “The fertile soil of Central Ohio has breathed life into more than corn and soybeans… [The Tin Hearts] sound that combines the traditions of Appalachian folk, twangy country and meaty rock ’n’ roll”.
Jamie Lyn and Fort Knox alternate hilarious, stinging songs of comic pathos with graceful, raw-hearted ballads, while Jamie Lyn’s lyrics and wry humor channel June Carter and Loretta Lynn in her own brand of neo-traditional "Deep Woods Off" country. Fort Knox can follow Jamie Lyn wherever she leads, careening skillfully from honkytonk to traditional bluegrass for a foot-stompin'-countrypolitan-good-time. Brooklyn Country.com states “Jamie Lyn infuses her honky-tonk story songs with a whole lot of humor, feeling and good-time energy”.
Jamie Lyn recently returned to Ohio from New York, where she founded and continues to produce the Honky Tonk Angels show, a monthly showcase of female country bands which has been named a Voice Choice, a TimeOut NY Recommended event, Countryny.com’s Featured Event, Brooklyn Country Event of the Month three times running, and graced the front page of Deli Magazine in December, 2009. A country-music traditionalist, Jamie Lyn was raised in rural Ohio by migrant Virginians who brought the music the Appalachian mountain region with them when they moved north.
Victorian’s Midnight Café is a full-service restaurant and bar located in the heart of Columbus, Ohio. Vic’s offers happy hour specials daily: half price draft beers, $1 off top shelf liquor, $1 hot dogs, and $5 prime organic hamburgers. The Honky Tonk Happy Hour special is $4 for a Budweiser and shot of Jack Daniels whiskey. Admission to this event is free, and all ages are welcome, although those under 21 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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