Saturday, July 25th • 7:30pm • Side Stage
Grover Anderson hails from Calaveras County, California and—like its former resident, Mark Twain—revels in the tragic, mundane, and absurd. Anderson has made a name in the Sierra Nevada foothills writing tall tales masquerading as songs—sometimes funny, sometimes deadly serious, always honest. His narratives of adventurers undone by ambition, small-town characters playing it cool, and everyday existence merge Twain’s folksy storytelling with folk and country musical tradition.
Anderson has shared stages with acts ranging from Shakey Graves to America. When he’s not performing he moonlights as a high school teacher at a school named for another American storyteller, Bret Harte.