Eddie Owen Presents Sonia Leigh + Brett Young + Brooke Eden

Live at Red Clay Theatre in downtown Duluth
Sonia Leigh is an Atlanta native recently relocated to Nashville, Tn. A diverse artist whose music hints a bit of an old country and old Rock and Roll sound similar to Springsteen/Rolling Stones/Fleetwood Mac,Joan Jett, Janis Joplin, Alabama, The Eagles etc…Influenced by those very artists along with New Rock like The Killers,Counting Crows, Passion Pit, Beth Hart, Imagine Dragons, she has developed a style hard to pigeon hole yet familiar enough to pull you in and make you want to hear more and more. Sonia Leigh delivers a power punch performance that gets you out of your seat and has you listening closely to the words all at once.

She has toured all over the United States and played some of the greatest stages in the nation including the Gorge, Red Rocks and The Ryman. Sonia Leigh has shared the stage with the likes of Uncle Kracker ,Loretta Lynn, Eric Church, Brantly Gilbert, Willie Nelson, Beth Hart, Zac Brown Band, Eli Young Band, Kenny Chesney, Amos Lee, and so many more!

She is a proud co Writer on Zac Brown Band’s #1 selling record “Uncaged” and cowriter on Zac Brown Band’s #1 Single “Goodbye in Her Eyes” and also a cowriter on his latest radio hit “Sweet Annie”.

Her latest record release “1978 December” was released on Zac Brown’s Southern Ground records and had two singles released to national radio and 2 video’s on CMT filmed right here in Atlanta Georgia.

She is now currently working on her independent release due out in 2014.
Watch a pitcher out on the mound, on any team, from a nine-year-old kid in the Babe Ruth league all the way up to a million dollar ace in the Majors. There’s a look in his eyes—an intensity—that goes right to his core.

And when you see that look in Brett Young’s baby blues, it isn’t too hard to understand what took this California boy from a ball field to the recording studio. His gritty vocals and impassioned lyrics are built on the same firm foundation that had him as a pre-draft selection of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays straight out of high school—hard work, sheer talent and that thing music industry execs and baseball talent scouts alike simply call heart.

Those same qualities have gotten Brett’s songs placed on television shows like MTV’s The Real World and Kardashian pop culture favorite Kourtney and Kim Take New York, and his feet planted firmly on some of the most well-known stages in the world—The Roxy, The Troubador, The Viper Room, sharing those stages with some of pop music’s best and brightest, from Colbie Caillat to Gavin DeGraw to Katy Perry.

Not bad for what Brett Young once thought would just be a “hobby.” But when a major elbow injury and reconstructive surgery took him off the pitcher’s mound for good, he found out that his love for music became so much more, and what he thought was the end was only the beginning.

With three independent albums already under his belt, Brett is taking his newest batch of songs into the studio with David Hall at the production helm, known for his GRAMMY Award winning work as an engineer, with artists of nearly every genre. And true to form, he’ll be showcasing that intensity and emotion in his recordings, of songs like “Fire” and “Breathe Again.”

“I grew up with Al Green, Marvin Gaye—soul singers. I like that the emotion carries the songs, where the music is almost secondary,” he says. “Van Morrison’s ‘Crazy Love’—that’s just timeless. They influence me; as a songwriter and a performer, I want to connect like they did. And when your audience feels like they can relate, then you have something much more special than a show, or a sale. You have a fan.”

When it comes to Brett Young, it isn’t so far from a pitcher’s mound to a major stage, and it doesn’t really matter what kind of Big Show you’re talking about. Because in the end, when you have that thing called heart, it shows. You may see it in his eyes, but you’ll hear it in his voice.

Brett has since played venues ranging from House of Blues to Troubadour, and shared the stage with such artists as Mandy Moore, Tyrone Wells, Jason Reeves, Gavin Degraw, Tyler Hilton, Katy Perry, Hoku and many more. Brett recently released his second record, Make Believe and is currently in the studio finishing up his latest album. 

City girl by birth, but country girl by blood, Brooke Eden brings you a fusion of country, rock, and blue-eyed soul. "Country music has just always hit a chord in my soul," says brooke "The stories and meanings inlaid within the music have connected me to it since I was a young child." 

Brooke Eden was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. Country music was always blasting in her family's home and car, where Brooke kept rhythm with the music before she could even walk. Brooke's dad, drummer and singer in a country band, would often invite Brooke to sit in with his band. Brooke has always had the ability to make a crowd feel what she was singing and at the tender age of 5, she knew what she wanted to do. 

As some of you may know, Brooke was featured on Season 7 of American Idol. It was an experience that taught her a lot about the industry and gave her the kick in the butt she needed to take a hold of her dream and go for it. "Idol was an experience that I needed to go through. The aftermath of the show showed me two sides of the music industry - support and criticism. The criticism was very difficult to take at first, but soon I realized that with amazing dreams come ups and downs, and I must take the bad with the good and learn from my mistakes. My Idol experience taught me to have a thick skin in the industry and also showed me that the sticks and stones of criticism made me want it even more," says Brooke of her American Idol experience.

Brooke has performed all over the state of Florida, opening for major recording artists including Florida Georgia Line, Brooks N Dunn, Sara Evans, Dustin Lynch, Jackson, and several others.