Anthony Arya and Casey Wickstrom

Anthony Arya with special guest Casey Wickstrom perform at the Hallcrest Vineyards Summer Series!

Sun. July 30 at 3pm No Cover

Anthony Arya is a roots rock performing and recording artist from Santa Cruz, California. At age 15 he was on Season 15 of NBC’s The Voice and shortly after released his debut album, Going To California. His second album The Road, released in Spring 2020, encompasses the Beat-Dylan American traditions of love, socio-political awareness, and the open road. His latest release, Circles & the Flames is receiving airplay nationwide and has earned him awards from the International Song Competition, Bluebird Cafe Taylor Golden Pick Contest as well as the Telluride Blues and Brews Blues Challenge. Anthony performs weekly around the San Francisco Bay Area both solo and with the Anthony Arya Band. In summer 2022, the Anthony Arya band performed on the main stage of Santa Cruz’s well known festivals – Redwood Mountain Faire, Santa Cruz Mountain Jam and Capitola Art and Wine.

Casey Wickstrom is a multi-instrumentalist looping artist from San Jose, CA. He sings and plays guitar, lap slide, three string slide cigar box guitar, bass, and other instruments. His latest single “Eminence Front” charted on Apple Music Blues charts, and he has been named one of the Top 100 Unsigned Artists by Music Connection Magazine. Casey Wickstrom was born in Mountain View, California, but grew up in the small isolated mountain town of Durango, Colorado. It was here that he began writing and playing music, inspired by artists like Paul Simon and Ben Harper. The prominent bluegrass scene in Durango influenced Wickstrom to pursue guitar, bass, and take up lap slide guitar, using an old acoustic that he converted into a lap slide.

Artist sights and sounds: https://www.anthonyarya.com