Music on the Green Dori Freeman
Beyond the Groove Productions and the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA) present Dori Freeman on Friday, May 29, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Reflection Plaza in Mountain Village.
“The purity of Dori Freeman’s voice and the directness of her songwriting reflect not only her Appalachian hometown — Galax, Va. — but also a determined classicism, a rejection of the ways modern country punches itself up for radio and arenas.” – Jon Pareles, The New York Times
2023’s Do You Recall offers a closer look at Dori Freeman’s brand of expansive Americana. It’s an album that both reaffirms her roots and reaches past them, exploring the sounds and stories that lay between traditional formats. Freeman does her best work in those gray areas, bringing her own color to a sound that’s varied, versatile, and unmistakably her own. She’s still proud of her Appalachian heritage. With Do You Recall, though, she’s making her own traditions.
Raised among a family of musicians in the Blue Ridge Mountains and hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the most authentic vocalists to emerge from the hills of southwestern Virginia in recent years,” she’s a bonafide Appalachian artist, while simultaneously shattering the archetype by empowering the characters in her songs with personal strength and homegrown wisdom.
The free Music on the Green summer concerts occur every Friday through September 18 from 5-7 p.m., thanks to sponsors TMVOA, Madeline Hotel & Residences, Auberge Collection, and the Town of Mountain Village.
