A singer-songwriter who built her following through homemade YouTube videos and went on to score Emmy-nominated HBO documentaries will share the stage with a guitarist who once directed music for Sonny & Cher when Wine & Song presents an innovative multimedia event September 17 at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
Danielle Anderson—known professionally as Danielle Ate the Sandwich—makes her first West Coast appearance since 2018, bringing her eighth studio album “Fumbling” to a unique format that fuses live music with super-short films in an intimate theater setting.
Anderson’s path from bedroom recordings to professional recognition illustrates the changing landscape of folk music. After building an extensive fanbase through homemade videos on YouTube, she progressed to writing soundtracks for the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary “Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson” and opening performances for Mumford and Sons.
“The songs featured on the album were written in the years between leaving Fort Collins, CO, where I had lived for 18 years, and the steps I took to relocate and carve out a new home in Kansas City,” Anderson explains of “Fumbling,” released March 21.
Guitarist Greg Porée brings decades of experience spanning American popular music’s major cultural movements. Having served as musical director for Sonny & Cher and collaborated with Gladys Knight & the Pips, Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, and Diana Ross, Porée now curates the Jazz Series at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
The evening will also feature performances by Wreckers and a preview of the upcoming Pancho Barnes project, creating what organizers call an “eclectic live music and film fusion.”
“Wine & Song: Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Greg Porée, Wreckers, Super-Short Film Fest” will run on Wednesday, Sept. 17, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre. For more call (626) 355-4318 or visit https://wineandsong.com/event/6213704/731766649/wine-song-danielle-ate-the-sandwich-greg-poree-wreckers-super-short-film-fest. Tickets: $25
