The Freight's new home opening weekend continues with yet another amazing show, as the icon of American music, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, takes the stage.

Jack weaves amazing stories in and out of song, sharing stream-of-consciousness nuggets from the richly checkered career that he launched the day he ran away from home at age 14 to join Colonel Jim Eskew's Rodeo. After various detours, Jack ended up at the side of Woody Guthrie, learning the craft that made him a leading figure in folk music, influencing a generation of musicians. During his years on the road, Jack also spent time with many luminaries, from Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Phil Ochs to Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg—and he's got stories about them all.

Jack has recently been revisiting the hard "deep" blues of the Depression era. He knew or performed with many of the original blues men, folks like Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, and Son House, and he sings their songs as only he can, a living connection between America's cultural past and present, linking blues and folk, white and black roots music, steeped in his unshakable reverence for American folk culture. He is, quite simply, not to be missed.

Rick Di Dia & Aireene Espiritu open tonight's show, picking, strumming, stomping, sliding, and singing their own brand of stripped down americana. With Rick's unique dulcimer-influenced lap-style guitar playing and Aireene's deep, earthy vocals at the heart of their performances, the duo conjure up their own route into timeless storytelling, painting pictures of places and people's lives while referencing the blues, jazz, folk ballads, stomps, bluegrass, and field hollers. Or as Rick and Aireene would have it, they "Make the old sound new in an old sort of way."