Tuesday, February 27, 7 p.m.
The Redstone Room, 129 Main Street, Davenport IA
With his most recent release The Heart described by RenownedForSound.com as “a deeply personal, sentimental, and intimate album that shines through its musical simplicity and emotional perceptivenes,” acoustic surf rocker Donavon Frankenreiter plays Davenport's Redstone Room on February 27, treating audiences to tuneful, upbeat songs that MusicFarm.com calls “hard not to sing and dance along with.”
Before launching a solo career as the protégé of chart-topping musician Jack Johnson, Frankenreiter began his professional life as a surfer. Born in Southern California in 1972, he movied to Hawaii when he was 14 and rented a home from the parents of Johnson – a fellow surfer with untapped musical talent. The two became fast friends, learning guitar together and hanging out between trips to the beach, and in his late teens, Frankenreiter began playing guitar in the local rock band called Sunchild. But it wasn't until 2002 that he initiated his solo career, with Johnson's Brushfire Records labels releasing Frankenreiter's self-titled debut in May 2004, and Johnson himself making guest appearance on the record along with G. Love and Koool G Murder of The Eels.
For his next record, Frankenreiter broke from his mentor's label and partnered up with Lost Highway, which released 2006's Move by Yourself. An EP of cover songs, Recycled Recipes, appeared in 2007, with the full-length Pass It Around arriving a year later. Around this time, Frankenreiter relocated to Kauai and began gravitating toward Hawaiian instruments such as the slack-key guitar, lap steel, and ukulele, all three of which would prominently on his next album, 2010's Revisited. A fourth album of original material, 2010's Glow, was released on Frankenreiter's own Liquid Tambourine Records, and since then Frankenreiter released Recycled Recipes, Vol. 2 in 2011, Start Livin' in 2012, and the critically acclaimed The Heart in 2015.
Donavon Frankenreiter performs locally with an opening set by John Craigie, tickets to the 7 p.m. show are $20-25, and more information and reservations are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RiverMusicExperience.org.
