Chris DuPont
The University of Michigan graduate (performance arts technology) and Ypsilanti resident was selected earlier this year from 500 worldwide entries to perform at the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival in August. His second album, “Anxious Animal,” received five "mittens" from the Web site Listen to the Mitten, and made the www.BandCamp.com top-seller list the week of its release.
DuPont recently played at the Ann Arbor Art Fair, and was booked for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Grove Stage, but was rained out by a massive thunderstorm.
He performs with a full backing band, and his wife, Betsy King, sings backup vocals. This is DuPont’s third Blind Pig show.
Opening are Kylee Philips (who also played at this year’s Art Fair), Bennett (Grand Rapids natives who appeared alongside The Avett Brothers recently at the Common Ground Folk Festival) and Cincinnati-band Young Heirlooms.
If you check out some of DuPont’s videos (several are on YouTube), you may have the same feeling I do: One day we’ll be able to say we knew him when.
Chris DuPont plays at the Blind Pig, with Young Heirlooms, Bennett and Kylee Phillips opening, Saturday Aug. 3. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7-$10. Details at www.blindpigmusic.com or 734- 996-8555.
