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The finale…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s a Feel Good Friday finale like no other with Reverend Peyton’s Big D@mn Band in Fountain Park!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The essence of the free summer music series in Fountain Park, underwritten completely by the Van Wert County Foundation and presented by Van Wert Live, is variety and vibrancy. We have journeyed through nine Feel Good Friday concerts each with its own unique musical flair enjoyed with friends arriving from practically everywhere. Every Friday is a celebration of good times and feeling fine in the glorious sunshine. The hot summer nights are now giving way to a cooler closing and the corn tussling lending a tinge of sweetness to the air. This is summer as we know it. The entertainment at Fountain Park adds to the merriment of living in a small music city where living without a care in the world is replaced by living for a great care for each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how about this band that was selected to wrap up Friday night with a bang? Reverend Peyton\u2019s Big D@mn Band delivers a Blues party while playing substantive music that honors its roots. Their performance is gritty, authentic music with, as the good Reverend declared, \u201chuman hands playing real instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This band is American roots music at its finest, steeped in traditions brought forward with a modern sensibility, performed with skill and passion. The trio’s musical stylings have been referred to as the tent revival, with punk energy that is a refreshing splash of cold water to the face. The Reverend Peyton\u2019s Big D@mn Band is like a 20-year-old bourbon in a room of vodka Red Bulls and PBRs; vintage yet timeless, exciting yet still welcoming. With his wife, Breezy, serving as a one-woman amen corner, and Max laying down the floppy-boot-stomp drums behind Peyton\u2019s National steel slide guitar, the result is a peculiarly infectious blues crusade. This band is certain to put an exclamation mark finish to the Feel Good Fridays of Summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reverend Peyton’s Big Band is the greatest front-porch blues band in the world featuring no one beyond Peyton himself, Breezy on washboard, and Max Senteney on drums. As for the inspiration behind his songs, Peyton says, it\u2019s difficult to create blues music that isn\u2019t personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The finale of the Fountain Park Feel Good Fridays series is this Friday night. Photo submitted<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe song \u2018Ways and Means\u2019 was written for all those folks who have the moves, the style, the substance, the talent, but maybe not the seed money or the famous last name,\u201d Peyton says. \u201cAll those people who had to work extra hard because they didn\u2019t get to start way ahead. Folks who have been playing catch-up since they were born and had to get really good just to make it to zero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re still wondering if the band suits your curious musical cravings, here’s some praise that may shed some light on this Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe latest from Reverend Peyton\u2019s Big Damn Band\u2026. is, in short, a revelation. An amazingly well crafted, controlled explosion of talent, the range, and depth of the music performed by the trio is remarkable.\u201d \u2013 American Blues Scene<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 the reincarnated Mississippi moan of guys like Son House\u2026 a burly soul punishing the senses with a Deltapunk attack and a heavy helping of rural realism. You can\u2019t ignore his Big Damn Band\u2019s gospel.\u201d \u2014 Elmore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe country blues is a gift of 20th century American music, and it\u2019s awesome to see a band tap into its legacy with so much gusto and original vision.\u201d \u2013 Music City Roots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith his wife, Breezy, serving as a one-woman amen corner, and Max laying down the floppy-boot-stomp drums behind Peyton\u2019s spiky, waspish National steel slide guitar on tracks like \u201cSomething for Nothing\u201d, the result is a peculiarly infectious blues crusade, touching on themes of money, morality, and social responsibility.\u201d \u2013 The Independent (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reverend Peyton\u2019s Big Damn Band is a twenty-year-old bourbon in a room of vodka Red Bulls and PBRs; vintage yet timeless, exciting and still welcoming\u2026\u201d \u2013MXDWN.COM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe focal point and ring leader Reverend J. Peyton is the star of the show here flashing a guitar style that elates the ear, at times flying all over the fret board and equally delicately picking with ease.\u201d \u2013 Glide Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feel Good Fridays may be coming to a climatic close but the entertainment roster for Van Wert Live continues to grow! Visit vanwertlive.com to see what shows will add that extra bit of goodness to your life and secure your tickets with no strife. Far from ordinary, Van Wert Live is on a mission to keep you far from sedentary. Feeling a bit flat? Entertainment in Van Wert is where its at!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The finale… It’s a Feel Good Friday finale like no other with Reverend Peyton’s Big D@mn Band in Fountain Park! The essence of the free summer music series in Fountain Park, underwritten completely by the Van Wert County Foundation and presented by Van Wert Live, is variety and vibrancy. We have journeyed through nine Feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 04:15:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168479,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168477\/revisions\/168479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}