Friday night, September 13th, Woodstock native, Zach Williams will bring the acclaimed band "The Lone Bellow" to Atlanta. Just before the Braves game at 6:00 in the Fan Pavilion there will be a full concert and after the game on the field an acoustic set will be played just before The Georgia Lottery Fireworks Show. The NY Times, Paste Magazine, Billboard, People Magazine as well as other noted media outlets say this is the band "To watch in 2013". They have appeared on Conan and Leno this year with their AAA radio hits "Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold" and " You Never Need Nobody".
YouTube has many videos featuring the band as well as the acclaimed feature "Bleeding Out".
Recently the band opened for The Civil Wars, Dwight Yocum and Robert Plant.
They are currently on their own "headlining" tour.
After graduating from Etowah High School in 1999, the native Georgian first came to songwriting via near tragedy on his parent's horse farm just off Bells Ferry Road. Williams' young wife was catastrophically injured in a horseback riding accident. Physicians initially told Williams that, at best, his wife would leave the hospital a paraplegic. But doctors at the pioneering Shepard Center in Atlanta thought otherwise and after months of rehab there she ultimately regained the ability to walk. Heroes brought her back through the prayers of their friends and family at FBC Woodstock. Throughout the ordeal, Williams had been scribbling his thoughts into a journal; good friend Caleb Clardy, co-writer of "Teach Me To Know," suggested he turn his writing into songs. The couple's friends had rallied around them, practically living in the hospital waiting room with Williams, organically becoming the support group he needed. Williams admits, "That was the first time I really experienced somebody trying their best to carry someone else's burden. It was very moving to me. I was going to classes on how to bathe and feed my wife, and I was trying to process all the fear and anger and the numbness. I started reading my friends these journal entries. I was writing in a kind of rhyming form because it helped to keep my mind focused. Caleb said, these are songs, man, you need to learn how to play the guitar and sing at he same time."
Having experienced something close to a miracle, a revitalized Williams and his wife decided to head to New York City and pursue their creative paths in earnest. Come out for the price of the game and hear "The Lone Bellow" free.
Tickets for Friday's game against the San Diego Padres can be purchased through http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/ticketing/singlegame.jsp?c_id=atl
On October 18th The Lone Bellow will perform at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
Then on October 22nd they perform again in Atlanta at Terminal West.
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