Tom Hamilton plays Higher Ground on Nov. 19, with the Rob Compa Trio
Juniper Island in Lake Champlain, off South Burlington, where Higher Ground is hosting Tom Hamilton on Nov. 19. Photo: Egpetersen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Hamilton, the Joe Russo’s Almost Dead guitarist, plays Higher Ground in South Burlington on Thursday, Nov. 19, with the Rob Compa Trio opening, the venue says on its event page. Doors are at 7 p.m., the show is at 7:30, tickets are $20 to $25, and the concert is all ages.
Higher Ground bills the date as a “JRAD Guitarist’s Project” night and says Hamilton, who is based in Philadelphia, has also fronted Brothers Past, American Babies and Ghost Light. His latest album under his own name, “I’m Your Vampire,” was co-produced with Alex Farrar and released through AWAL and Relix, the venue write-up says.
Hamilton’s own account of the record, quoted on the same page, traces the songs to a stretch when his band broke up and his father was ill, and when the studio was, in his words, “the only refuge I had.”
The club is at 1214 Williston Road. The November calendar there already includes the Punch Brothers on Nov. 12 and Stewart Copeland on Nov. 15. Hamilton’s Thursday ticket is the least expensive of that run, and it is the one aimed at listeners who have followed him through Almost Dead and the earlier groups.
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