WXPN Welcomes Two Nights with:
Soulive at Ardmore Music Hall
Night 1: Friday, April 24, 2026 with Norside
Night 2: Saturday, April 25, 2026 with Ryan Montbleau (duo)
Seated Doors: 6:45 PM | GA Doors: 7:15 PM | Show: 8:00 PM
21+ Unless with a Parent or Legal Guardian
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About Soulive
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Since the end of the 1990s, jazz-funk trio Soulive have melded vintage soul-jazz with modern jazz-funk, sophisticated pop, and hip-hop. Their core membership includes guitarist/producer (and Lettuce co-founder) Eric Krasno, drummer and studio engineer Alan Evans, and Neal Evans on Hammond B-3 organ and keyboards (and a first-call sideman for many artists. While they record and play together as an instrumental trio, they have collaborated with horn players and vocalists. The band's 1999 debut Get Down! registered with college audiences and won them international touring spots with Karl Denson, Maceo Parker, and others. Between 2001 and 2003 they issued three Top Ten albums as part of a non-exclusive deal with Blue Note, including the number three Next. They shifted to Concord for 2005's Break Out. Between 2006 and 2007 they collaborated with vocalist Toussaint Yeshua, resulting in the band's Stax album No Place Like Soul. For 2009's Up Here, their Royal Family debut, they recruited vocalist Nigel Hall and a horn section. The following year Soulive delivered an instrumental tribute to the Beatles entitled Rubber Soulive, and Live at the Blue Note Tokyo that featured jazz trumpeter Christian Scott in the horn section. 2012's Spark was a collaboration with Denson. Soulive spent the next five years on an informal hiatus while its members pursued other projects. They reunited for the studio EP Cinematics, Vol. 1 in 2018, and in 2021 issued Gettin Down at Hampshire College and re-released an expanded version of Get Down!
The band was formed in Woodstock, New York in 1996. Alan and Neal had been members of Moon Boot Lover -- Alan also played with the Greyboy Allstars -- and then hip-hop with Edreys (Billy Drease Williams) as the Elements, then formed a jazz organ trio by enlisting former schoolmate and guitarist Eric Krasno to record some tracks with them in their home studio. That session became the Get Down! EP, released on their own Velour Recordings, and they hit the road. Soulive toured with and opened for a number of notables (including John Scofield, Maceo Parker, Los Lobos, Derek Trucks, and Robben Ford) before headlining their own shows.
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About Norside
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Norside has grown to be a staple of the Pittsburgh PA music scene since their formation in 2021, exciting fans with their original bag of soul-jazz inspired grooves they’ve dubbed “Rust Belt Funk'“
Norside has shared the stage with other incredible acts such as The New Mastersounds, The Bar-Kays, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Chris Cain, and Steeltown Horns.
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About Ryan Montbleau
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A relentless road warrior and masterful wordsmith, Ryan Montbleau has spent the better part of thirty years cultivating a devoted audience on the strength of his ecstatic live shows and exhilarating sonic versatility. He’s collaborated with artists as diverse as Trombone Shorty, Galactic, Steel Pulse, Tall Heights, Martin Sexton, Anders Osborne, and George Porter, Jr; shared bills with the likes of Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ani DiFranco, Todd Snider, The Wood Brothers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Mavis Staples; and racked up more than 150 million streams on Spotify alone. NPR’s Mountain Stage compared his “eloquent, soulful songwriting” to Bill Withers and James Taylor, while Relix celebrated his “poetic Americana,” and The Boston Herald raved that “he’s made a career of confident, danceable positivity.”
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