ROBERT A. WAGNER | T. MITCHELL BELL

Saturday August 23 at 8pm
412.818.3817 for details
$5 suggested donation

Three Penny Opry is only one of many things that Robert Wagner has started. He has fronted two great bands, The Little Wretches, and The Mercenes. And he has been a driving force in the Pittsburgh music scene. His craftsmanship, honesty, and intensity have been inspirations to me, and he remains one of the standards against which I measure my fumbling progress as a songwriter, and as a performer.

I always think of Robert as the singing Poet Laureate of Pittsburgh. He paints startling portraits of Pittsburgh's people, history, and places. If you've heard him, I need say no more. If you haven't, you're missing more than you can imagine.

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T. Mitchell Bell is also a great singer-songwriter. He brings an expansive conscious-ness, compassion, and soul to his craft. I've shared stages with him a couple times and have always been impressed by his style and capacity.

He has a new CD, recorded and mixed in Nashville, called The Ballad of Philo Paul, and I hope it'll be available for sale at the show.