4 April 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Americana quartet The Jesse Janes are bringing their previously sold out live show celebrating the soundtrack from the 2000 movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? and other iconic bluegrass and blues classics to the Isle of Man for the first time.
Expect to hear classic tunes made famous by the likes of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, EmmyLou Harris, Alison Kraus, Elvis, The Stanley Brothers, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Rodgers and Gillian Welch to name a few.
The Jesse Janes are an Americana quartet made up of Irish sisters Kate and Mary Rose plus Liverpool lads Tom and Ben. They have been enchanting audiences in Ireland and the North West of England for over 10 years with their unique and joyful interpretations of Americana classics, alongside some of their own original songs.
Opening for The Jesse Janes will be well-known Isle of Man country blues guitarist John Gregory, AKA Blue John.
John specialises in fingerpicking blues from the 1920s onwards, naming Mississippi John Hurt and Big Bill Broonzy as two of his biggest inspirations. John has toured the British Isles, opening for top US acoustic blues musicians Ari Eisinger, Toby Walker and the Erin Harpe Country Blues Duo and did several headline dates of his own in the UK in 2024. He has also played at events at The Bitter End in New York and in Austin, Texas as well as travelling to Chicago to play Big Bill Broonzy’s guitar in 2018.
Tickets available from EAC priced at £17 – doors open at 7PM, with gig starting from 8PM