Amplify Appalachia ft. Anders Osborne & Duck
June 11 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Thu, Jun 11 • 6 PM | From $40.38 Event Details and Tickets
Join us for an evening of music at Sierra Nevada Mills River’s High Gravity Taproom to enjoy local artists and support regional recovery through clean energy solutions. Proceeds from this event to benefit Footprint Project and Land of Sky Regional Council of Governments and their efforts to serve Western North Carolina. The event will also feature short remarks from local leaders and recovery organizations about efforts made to date and future recovery needs that can be supported through clean energy solutions.
Join us at Sierra Nevada’s Mills River High Gravity Room for a benefit concert to remember.
Anders Osborne – After living and performing there for almost four decades Osborne has become a fixture of the New Orleans musical community. Guitar Player called him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans’ Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist on three occasions, and the Best Songwriter twice. He has appeared at Jazz Fest for 35 years and will perform at the festival again in 2024.
In addition to his solo shows, Osborne has performed with the North Mississippi All Stars with whom he recorded the album Freedom and Dreams in 2015. He has also toured with and played with Toots and the Maytals, John Scofield to The Meters, to Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Stanton Moore Phil Lesh, Jackie Greene Bonnie Raitt, Dr. John and Taj Mahal. Osborne appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Treme and he has taught a course about art and the music business at Tulane University. Since 2019, Osborne has collaborated with Steve Earle at the annual Camp Copperhead songwriting camp.
Osborne works closely with the “Send Me A Friend” foundation and through writing music for New Orleans Children’s Museum. He has additionally worked closely with Million Strong, Love Rocks NYC, Stand Together, Trombone Shorty Foundation and Phoenix.
Duck isn’t just a band—it’s a collective, a community, and a living expression of what happens when groove, intention, and freedom collide. Duck has grown into one of the region’s most magnetic modern funk acts, known for transforming venues into dance-driven gatherings where the connection between audience and band feels almost ritualistic.
At the center of Duck’s identity is their philosophy of “Funk Prayer.” While it’s not a religious statement, it is spiritual in its own right: a belief that funk can be both a physical phenomenon and a metaphysical one. The groove grounds you; the intention lifts you.
