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HART — The Hart Community Performing Arts Series will present a concert by the Annie and Rod Capps Quartet Sunday, Feb. 16, at 3 p.m. in the Hart Public Schools Auditorium.
Over the years, Annie and Rod have done it all from hard rock to musical theater. The 80s and 90s found them dividing their time between original projects and cover bands. “Foolish Mortals” — their longest-running and hardest-working cover band with a set list that included everything from The Pretenders and Sheryl Crow to Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith — performed nearly every weekend in bars and pubs around the Detroit area. In the later 90s, Annie picked up the guitar again and started writing.
The transition to “folk” was gradual but eventually they shifted to acoustic instruments, away from the bars and into the coffee shops. It was through the open mic scene they found a new community and discovered a world of listening rooms. At this point they were already seasoned performers and before long they developed a new fan base of people who wanted to hear their original songs.
Their first album was recorded in a small bedroom at their home in Ann Arbor on a second-hand version of music software, ProTools. Just the two of them playing a mix of electric and acoustic instruments — with no drums except for the sampled drums on two tracks. For their second attempt at making an album, they went into a professional recording studio with a full band and a slew of guest backup singers and players. It’s fair to say they went overboard on the overdubs. Like the first one, it’s another album no longer in print. By 2003, they found a home at Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor where they would record six of their next seven albums.
As with many singer/songwriters whose instrumentation is primarily acoustic, the word “folk” covers a broad sonic range of genres and influences – what comes out is a hybrid sound all their own. Genuine and playful; effortless and endearing; this duo has been delighting audiences in quality music venues, house concerts, coffeehouses, and festivals throughout their home state of Michigan and beyond.
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