THE MAKERS @ the Finger Lakes Cider House

May 23rd, 2025; 6-9 pm
BBQ starts at 5pm- 8:30 or sold out. Cider, beer, cocktails by the glass.
$5 cover charge

The Makers are Lydia Garrison and Nate Silas Richardson. A shared obsession with the music of Mali, West Africa brought them together, and a potent creative chemistry emerged between them. They blend their voices, fiddle, banjo, and various guitars into an intricate weave of sometimes unclassifiable but always heartfelt, roots-based original songs, exploring the triumphs and tragedies along life’s beautiful & bumpy road.

Lydia grew up in the Old Time, Cajun, and Zydeco music worlds, dancing and jamming and feelingthe music swirling around her at music festivals in the North East and Louisiana. She has been inspired by songwriters and musicians such as Bear Fox, Keith Frank, Courtney Granger, LucindaWilliams, Emmy Lou Harris, Ginny Hawker, Rokia and Boubocar Traore, Zoumana Tereta, and Oumou Sangare. She did a musical study abroad in Bamako, Mali, West Africa in 2008, seeing up close the power that she'd felt as an audience member at the local FingerLakes GrassRoots Festivalof Music & Dance, which routinely brought musical acts from Mali.