ABOUT SIDEWALK SESSIONS:
This fall, get your party started at the Ryman with Sidewalk Sessions, the pre-show party series on our PNC Plaza featuring FREE live music, drinks at our outdoor bar, and plenty of giveaways. See Matthew Welde on the PNC Plaza before Shane Smith & the Saints on October 24.
ABOUT MATTHEW WELDE:
New York City native son Matthew Welde has been kicking around Nashville for the past few years, writing over a hundred songs in that stretch, while exhibiting his electric guitar work in a variety of sonic settings around Music City. The longtime journeyman musician has collaborated with such heavyweight producers as Oz Fritz and John Agnello; and garnered praise for his songwriting from a cross section of admirers including former Patti Smith guitarist and co-writer Oliver Ray, Dead Meadow frontman Jason Simon, and Sonic Youth producer Jim Waters. After years of splitting time between New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, he finally saw the light and made his way to the songwriter’s paradise of Nashville, Tennessee, where he can be heard plying his craft at notable hole-in-wall venues like Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge, the 5Spot, Bobby's Idle Hour, the Underdog, and Brown's Diner.
Recent studio collaborations with Miranda Lambert guitarist Ethan Ballinger(Co-Producer) has yielded an album called 100 Days that was released in September of 2023. In October of '23 he also released a 3-song EP called Matthew Welde with Santa’s Ice Cold Pickers Vol 1, a side project produced by Hank Williams Jr’s long-time bandleader and pedal steel sensation Mike Daly. Mr. Welde founded a musical project with his friends Heather Gillis and Heather Thomas called Matthew Welde & The Heathers. The group's debut release in November 2023 is a 24 track rock'n'roll concept album that will blow your hair back. After years of operating in the shadows and a long and winding road that has included broken hearts and broken guitar strings, a string of odd jobs and the odd night in jail; Matthew Welde seems poised to make a splash around the country after his crash landing in Music City, USA.
