We got a workin’ musician here, folks. Eli Lev joins us Friday, June 7, 2024 at 7:00pm.

Award-winning singer-songwriter and global citizen Eli Lev’s empathic writing and infectious folk-based sensibility has been his universal passport into our collective hearts. Over the last five years, the Maryland-based artist released his epic debut, Four Directions, which compiles four conceptual EPs (All Roads East 2017, Way Out West 2018, Deep South 2019, True North 2021) into one 20-song statement. The indigenous traditions he learned during his time as an eighth grade English teacher on the Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona were his inspiration for the critically-acclaimed tune tome. Together, the series imaginatively and intrepidly connects spheres and generations within a body of work that is irresistibly uplifting, emotionally resonant, and down-to-earth authentic.

Eli’s releases have earned critical praise from magazines such as American Songwriter, Paste Magazine, and IU Alumni; online outlets including BuzzFeed, CBS Radio, AXS, and The Bluegrass Situation; and have received national folk radio support along with placement on prominent industry Spotify playlists. In 2019, Eli Lev won multiple industry awards for his work: his second album Way Out West won a Washington Area Music Award (WAMMIE) for “Best Country/Americana album,” while his single “Chasing Daylight” won a grand prize in the SAW Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Competitionand in 2021, he won another WAMMIE for ‘Best Pop Artist’ in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.

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