Davey O and Hiroya Tsukamoto – October 4, 2024

Davey O. is an award winning and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Buffalo, NY. His work has been recognized by his selection as a New Folk Songwriting Finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in 2013, as a 2015 Finalist in the 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, and as a 2016 & 2017 nominee for the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation Jim Lauderdale Songwriter of the Year Award. His 2017 release, “A Bright Horizon Line” was well received by radio and by music publications around the globe, debuting as a Top 20 album on the Folk DJ Charts, and receiving glowing reviews in several music publications, including the pages of what is considered to be “the journal of Roots Music” – No Depression magazine.

His previous release, “No Passengers” (2014), was counted among the Top 100 Contemporary Folk Albums of 2014 on the Roots Music Reports, and among the “Best of 2014” lists of WHRW (Binghamton, NY), WAMC (Albany, NY), The Sundilla Radio Hour (Auburn, AL), WMSC (Montclair, NJ), Radio Crystal Blue (Tacoma, WA), WVPE (Elkhart, IN).

Since June of 2020, Davey has been releasing new music via his website under the title of “The Share Project”, with all download proceeds donated to FeedMore WNY – his local food bank.

In August of 2023, Davey released a new 6 song EP titled “Some Days”, which has been receiving positive press in notable music publications such as “Americana Highways”, steady airplay on Folk and Roots radio throughout the Northeastern & Midwestern U.S., and was selected as a 2023 favorite by Folk DJ’s Charlie Silvestri of NJ based podcast “Up Close & Acoustic”, and Kelly Walker, host of the nationally syndicated NPR show, “The Sundilla Radio Hour”.

Hiroya Tsukamoto is a Japanese-born fingerstyle guitarist who moved to the United States in 2000 to attend the Berklee College of Music. Needless to say, he’s not only a dizzyingly agile fingerpicker, but a soulful and transcendent performer, with compositions that combine instrumental guitar work with lyrical performance and spoken stories from his life.

Tsukamoto has been recognized for his talents on stages such as at Blue Note in New York City, Japanese National Television (NHK), International Storytelling Center and United Nations, and by scoring second place at the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship both in 2018 and 2022.

“Hiroya Tsukamoto may play the guitar with the skill of a virtuoso, and he may write compelling music that draws from many different cultures and genres, but if I had to choose one word to describe him it would be orchestrator. ” – Acoustic Guitar Magazine

“Hiroya Tsukamoto takes us to an impressionistic journey ” -Boston Herald