Willie Watson

Sunday November 9th, 2025

5PM DOORS 6PM SHOW

$25 ADV $30 DOS

ALL AGES

Soon before Willie Watson turned 18, he met God in an apple orchard. Or at the very least, hemet there a man named Ruby Love, the older friend of a high-school buddy who had an enormous Martin guitar and a seemingly bigger understanding of the American folk songbook.Watson was existentially thirsty: A high-school dropout from upstate New York’s Finger Lakes,he was fast on his way to his first heartbreak and in a first band that didn’t take itself seriously enough. But that night in an apple orchard that had always seemed magical, at a graduation party for one of his bandmates and best friends, Watson and Love sang a few of those old songs together—“Worried Man Blues” and “Tennessee Waltz.” It was the first time Watson had cried while singing, the first time he had made…