Friday Night Concert Series Presents Deer Tick July 8th

Providence, RI - Mayor Angel Taveras, the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, the Department of Parks & Recreation and 95.5 WBRU are pleased to announce a performance by Deer Tick on July 8 as part of this summer's Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park. This performance is free and open to the public and begins at 7:30pm.

Fresh off a performance at this year's Bonnaroo Festival, local phenoms Deer Tick bring to the stage a performance Rolling Stone Magazine calls the "Country-Rock break-through of the Year."

Deer Tick originated as a John McCauley solo project in December 2004. Beginning his touring career with the help of Brendon Massei (Viking Moses), McCauley had toured extensively across the United States by the age of 19. In "do it yourself" fashion, he released three cassettes and numerous CD-Rs in this time period, and the project eventually evolved into what is now known as Deer Tick.

Since its beginning Deer Tick has varied in size from one show to another, and only had one official member (John McCauley) from its inception in 2004 through mid-2007. The band is currently comprised of John McCauley, bassist Christopher Dale Ryan, drummer Dennis Ryan, guitarist Ian O'Neil and Rob B. Crowell (Keyboards/Saxophone). This current line up wowed a national audience on the Late Show with David Letterman last year and blew away the critics and fans at the South By Southwest Music Festival.

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