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Artist: Gabriel N. Akins is Americana’s Grandson

Genre: Southern Americana from the Springville country of Alabama.

For Fans Of: Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Gillian Welch, Roy Book Binder, The Wood Brothers

“Hey, Community. I’m Gabriel. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and like many people born in the 80’s, I was assigned Ritalin. For me, that substance only intensified my awareness of how little I had control over anything outside me, a world I witnessed talking past one-another and more often than not at my own expense. My caregivers were doing the best they knew with blindspots and potholes like anyone else. I also have late diagnosed high masking Autism. It’s much easier to speak as myself and my experience, however, if I put it the way some of my elders have and just say … I’m tailor made. With pre-verbal memories of my experience, music and storytelling from my multicultural and multi-generational eldership has been my primary source of understanding and wisdom. I belong to the people who raised me just as they belong to me.” - Gabriel, Good Hand Gabe

“Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey.” -Zora Neale Hurston 🌻🌈🕊️🌌

Bio: Gabriel is founding member of The Matchcoats, found Country Blues and Americana often meets him where feet are on the ground, meals are shared, and dishes are being washed with a neighbor. “One day while going through some pain of my own I remembered watching Sonny Terry on a recording of Rainbow Quest.” says Gabriel. He continues, ”Sonny was hootin’ and singin’ Leadbelly’s, Rock Island Line, right there with Brownie McGhee and Pete Seeger, while rockin’ on one of his ribs and this hit me; some notes you don’t learn how to hit unless you’re feeling the road under your feet." Life is complex, mundane, and holy, like a kid who grew up on a farm with unique vision into Shakespeare’s writing and yet, not likely to read his work. So, Gabriel hopes to engage listeners at their unique position on life’s road. He comes bearing a couple handfuls of fresh metaphors and tunes from a place where we all are doing our best and sometimes even making an unholy mess of it all. 

Gabriel has performed at a broad scope of venues and events, both public and private. Please feel free to look over the venues he has performed at since 2011. 

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