Alabama singer-songwriter to perform Sunday
The Ilse Newell Fund for the Performing Arts will feature singer-songwriter Abe Patridge at a concert this Sunday, March 30 at 4 p.m. ET at Trinity Episcopal Church in Apalachicola.
A musician as well as visual artist and storyteller based in Mobile, Alabama, Partridge has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe since the release of his debut album Cotton Fields and Blood for Days in 2018. After a swing through the UK and the Netherlands this year, he brings his unique brand of musical salvation back to the States and the South.
Recently, he toured extensively with Matthew Sweet, Drivin’ N Cryin’, and Dar Williams in support of his latest release Love in the Dark.
Partridge along with co-producer Ferrill Gibbs created the Alabama Astronaut podcast, where he works to properly record songs previously undocumented at holiness, serpent-handling churches in Appalachia.
He evolved from a troubled youth to a Fundamentalist Baptist preacher to an Air Force serviceman, and his songs echo his personal experiences and those of characters he’s met along the way. He served overseas in Qatar during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, where he continued to write songs, and is now a folk singer serving in the Air Force Reserves.
“I get to live a life I love,” Partridge said, “but for two days a month, I need to put on a uniform and say ‘yes, sir.’”
Pre-concert tickets are available at Eventbrite at www.inconcertapalachicola.org for $20 each. $25 at the door. Students admitted free. Open seating, doors open at 3:30 p.m.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.