The Ottawa Memorial Auditorium kicks of our 2nd year of the Songwriter Showcase. Join us in person or online on Thursday, November 18th at 7:30pm and hear the live original music of Lora McDonald, The Clarks and TetraFuze and Olen. This is a FREE show!
About The Artists:
Lora McDonald: Lora is a Singer-Songwriter from the Flint Hills of Kansas. She has been performed at numerous events and venues such as the Emporia Granada, Live in the Lot, Kansas Sampler, Washunga Days, and opening for the likes of RaeLynn, and Maddie and Tae. Along with solo gigs, Lora performs with a very active cover band called Brickhorse.
The Clarks: Corey Clark is a singer-songwriter living in Kansas City, Missouri. After years of playing bass in several bands around the metro, his focus is now playing mandolin with his son Adrean accompanying him on guitar. This father son duo creates and performs storied, original songs steeped in influences from Townes Van Zandt to John Prine.
TetraFuze with Olen: Joshua Olen Richards (aka Olen) is a singer/songwriter from Ottawa, KS. Olen has managed to gain traction on Spotify and Instagram, so much so that Billboard Chart-topping rapper and R&B singer Tory Lanez liked and commented on a snippet of his song that he put out on Instagram in October. Needless to say the direction Olen's music is going is upward, with the anticipation of his upcoming album "degenerates" building more and more, the next installment of the album before its release, an EP entitled "not myself," is set to be out in November. Olen will also be dropping another EP in December, so be on the lookout for that as well.
In the realm of hard rock and metal, coming out of Lawrence, KS, there is TetraFuze. Founded back in the summer of 2018, they recorded their debut album "Welcome Home" which released in July of the same year. Over the past few years they have been touring regionally and gaining a small fan base around Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Being unable to tour or even play hardly any shows after the release of their album "Dysphoria" due to the pandemic, TetraFuze has been focused on making more music and growing the TetraFuze family larger and larger by the week. This year they released their new album, Pain Worth the Prize, which is available on Spotify and has been received positively by fans.
Now, Olen and TetraFuze have organized a gig together in the past, but this time it'll be very different; because now instead of taking turns playing their own songs, now they they'll be playing each other's songs together!