Jeremiah Craig – Singer/Songwriter – Balladeer
You know that feeling you get when you open up a time capsule that isn’t yours? You see pictures and letters yellowed by decay and you imagine their lives and stories with raw feelings. Each Jeremiah Craig song is a time capsule. They are intriguing and captivating stories.
Jeremiah Craig has always loved the way great old yarn spinners can tell a story around a fire or on a barstool. Music has been a delivery method of stories for centuries and Craig tries to continue that story telling in his own songwriting. Folk ballads are his passion. He includes many story elements in his songs and he’s done so from the start of his songwriting career in the Northeastern U.S. and now continuing it in the western part of the U.S. From Washington to Arizona and beyond.
Jeremiah Craig has been involved in many diverse musical projects over the past few years. In 2004 he made his musical debut with the band Bluegrass Tuesday. In 2006 he formed an original rock/jazz jam band, Jack Swift, who in 2009, went on the “You Don’t Know Jack Tour Spectacular” across five states. Jeremiah Craig started his solo career in 2011 with his first full-length album, Gardener Hands. Released the single “Busy my Spade” the next year and in 2013 released his first project recorded in Arizona, The Commandeer EP. He went on his first solo tour in the fall of 2015 and has started the “Expressway Balladeer” video series documenting his travels as a touring musician.
Listen to a few recordings from Jeremiah Craig to get a better sense of him as a singer/songwriter:
Videos
Notable Shows, Tours and Supporting Gigs
Home Roots Tour 2016: 15 dates across the USA
Dog Days Tour 2016 across the Pacific Northwest
Solstice Tour 2016 across the Pacific Northwest
Performed at 14 Hands winery in Prosser, WA
2015 Fall Tour: 17 dates across 5 states (Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada)
Opened for John Moreland at Last Exit Live in Phoenix, AZ
Opened for Donovan Frankenreiter at The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
Performed at Sidepony Express Music Festival 2013, 2014, and 2015
Performed at the Flagstaff Folk Festival 2012, 2013, and 2014
Opened for Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground at Water Street Music Hall Rochester, NY
Press
WATCH NOW: Balladeer Jeremiah Craig coming home to Geneseo – Livingston County News
Folk Singer/Songwriter, Jeremiah Craig, Embarks on National Tour – Includes a show at Parkman’s own Laleure Vineyards – Geauga News
Why Jeremiah Craig Is The Artist You All Must See – The Odyssey Online
Artist Conversations: Jeremiah Craig – Mic’d Up Magazine
Jeremiah Craig: Choice Folk Concert – CITY Newspaper
Radio interview on “Our Kind of Music” based in Las Vegas
“Jeremiah Craig’s campfire storytelling spins tall tales in Lost Keys in Lounge Strange” – YabYum West
“Jeremiah Craig Releases Free Download of Original Banjo Folk Songs” – Cybergrass
“JEREMIAH CRAIG – THE COMMANDEER EP Review” – Beat Surrender
“Jeremiah Craig Interview: The Commandeer EP” – New Grooves
“Artist Interview: Jeremiah Craig on recording his new EP The Commandeer ” – Ear to the Ground
“Craig has had an impressive first half of 2011” – Henrietta Post
Kind words about yours truly
“Jeremiah Craig is the artist you all must see” – The Odyssey Online
“A harmonica-wieldin’ guitar-slingin balladeer whose acoustic folk is centered around his love of storytelling.” – CITY Newspaper
“An incredible storyteller that weaves his tales between fierce harmonica and dazzling guitar.” – Arizona Foothills Magazine
“We found Craig’s vocals to be on point.” – Ear to the Ground Music
