Generations, a new music series, is launching Friday night, Sept. 27, in East Brainerd’s Heritage House, 1428 Jenkins Road.
Local musician Ryan Oyer and Jeff Hoffinger will be the first artists in the series’ debut with free performances starting at 7 p.m. Opening for them will be Young Geezer band featuring clarinetist Gordon Inman and accordion player Ed Bergin.
The focus of the new series, according to Heritage House director Chris Holley, is to create a form of musical counterpoint by juxtaposing two singer-songwriters from distinctly different eras. The performance will be alcohol-free, and presented in a listening-room format so that all guests may gain as much as possible from the experience.
Oyer has been leader of the Ryan Oyer Band since 2010, and also performed a short stint in Lazy Horse, Mike McDade’s Neil Young tribute band. Area music fans may have caught Oyer performances at the Red Clay Theatre, JJ’s Bohemia, Rhythm & Brews, Songbirds, Tremont Tavern, the Nightfall music series or Riverbend Festival.
Heritage House Contributed Photo / Jeff HoffingerNew York-born Hoffinger has been playing and collecting guitars since age 15. An early member of the Greenwich Village folk movement in the mid-1960s and ’70s, his nights frequently consisted of playing a series of pass-the-basket coffee-house gigs in the course of an evening.