Description
Event Details:
Date: Friday, May 23, 2025
Time: 8PM
Venue: MUSE Sturgeon Bay
Directions: 330 Jefferson Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235. On the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Street in downtown Sturgeon Bay.
Phone: 920-333-2859
Email: tickets@musesturgeonbay.com
About the Artists:
Ruby James:
Breaking Hearts & Defying The Limits of Genre.
If the ghosts of soul divas were smoking and playing poker, the record spinning through the smoke and cackling laughter would sound like Ruby James—timeless spirit, modern heart. Whether live or recorded, she’s an experience, like velvet on fire.
Channeling the golden-hued nostalgia of ‘60s pop through a sharp eye with a smudgy edge, Ruby James is a kind of audio alchemist, a matchmaker for aching melodies in search of phantom soundwaves who both enjoy collecting rare gems and walks at sunset, on the moon. The kind of artist a producer like Phil Spector would label ‘Desirable.’
Sound Waves are Forever
Imagine the sugar-dusted heartbreak of The Ronettes colliding headfirst with the unfiltered soul of Dusty Springfield—all backed by a band of Southern-seasoned song slayers.
Eerily familiar melodies echo through valleys and ascend hillsides of harmony, while sneak-attack tones—cosmic-glued to rhythm and rhyme—tick-tock in time with the human heart. Each track, a ‘hello, darling,’” melts into a cinematic farewell.
But don’t mistake the sweetness for softness. Behind the pinkish-golden glow, there’s grit making pearls, ache making love songs, and all the essential pieces of a real person navigating the human experience.
The Road So Far
From the notable nightclubs of Nashville to multiple festival stages across the South, Midwest, and Southwest, Ruby James has earned a reputation for performances that leave a mark. Whether commanding intimate spaces or sending heartbreaker anthems soaring over festival grounds, her live show is a holistic, full-body experience—part confession, part catharsis.
Rosie Flores:
It’s telling that Rosie Flores’ e-mail handle begins “chickwpick…” In a long and eclectic career of singing, songwriting and performing, no phrase has ever described the San Antonio native better or more concisely.
In a career that spans more than four decades, Flores has proven to be a musical chameleon. She’s jumped feet first into punk rock (with her ’70-era band, the Screaming Sirens), country of both the Bakersfield and Nashville varieties, the Texas singer/songwriter scene, alt-country, straight-up rock and rockabilly. So much so the latter that her onstage moniker for years was “The Rockabilly Filly.” But always and throughout, she has been the Chick with the Pick.
Over the years, Flores has been profiled in Guitar World, Premiere Guitar and Guitar Player magazines. She was named one of the “Top 75 Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time” by Venuszine magazine, and performed at a tribute to Chuck Berry at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Flores has worked with, and helped propel back in to the spotlight, pioneer female rockabilly artists Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin. In 2007, she won a Peabody Award for her narration of the rockabilly documentary, Whole Lotta Shakin’. She worked with Martin in producing the latter’s 2012 album, The Blanco Sessions, which would prove to be Martin’s last recording.
Throughout, she released her own work. To name but a few, they include her solo debut, 1987’s Rosie Flores, 1995’s Rockabilly Filly, 1999’s Dance Hall Dreams, the acoustic live set Single Rose in 2004, 2009’s Girl of the Century and, in 2012, the aptly-named, self-produced Working Girl’s Guitar. Since then, her time has been spent on her labor of love recording and singing for The Blue Moon Jazz Quartet. Also since hooking up with her Austin musician’s, she formed The Talismen. Recordings are availabke on Youtube and the whole album soon to be released.
Though she has toured around the world, Flores always returns to her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas, where she was honored with Rosie Flores day in 2006 (an honor she was accorded once again in 2017). Cover stories in the Austin Chronicle and Austin Woman magazine have codified her status as one of the city’s most celebrated musicians.
“She’s a hard-working, independently minded artist who’s well-respected for her gritty, energetic vocals and fiery guitar solos,” writes the authoritative website Allmusic.com. “Prolifically creative, Flores deserves to be numbered among the creators of the alternative country movement.” With her new rock ‘n roll band in the studio as well as the jazz recordings, Flores is making a full musical circle, back to her roots—and ours.
Read more about Rosie on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) website here!
