Hey Mavis

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Hey Mavis pays another visit to Lakeside for a concert at the Steele Memorial Bandstand Sunday, Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. 

Banjoist/songwriter Laurie Michelle Caner and violinist/fiddler Eddie Caner formed Hey Mavis while serving as artists-in-residence in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.  

Producer Don Dixon (REM, Smithereens, Red Clay Ramblers) “discovered” the group on a local Christmas compilation CD and went on to produce their first two albums, both of which hit the top 10 on the national Folk DJ-L radio charts and amassed favorable reviews across the globe.  

Hey Mavis’s third release, produced by Yonder Mountain String Band’s Adam Aijala, features guitar playing by Aijala as well as a title track co-written by Chuck Auerbach, who has written lyrics to several Black Keys songs. 

The group has performed standing-room-only shows at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival as well as nine consecutive sell-out concerts in their hometown of Akron.  

In 2018, Melissa Etheridge hand-picked Hey Mavis to be one of the headliners for her music cruise.