Rainy Eyes photographed by Laura Kudritzki
The New Orleans Jazz Museum and Jazz Foundation of America present a performance featuring Rainy Eyes Band Swampy Folk Americana on Wednesday, January 25th at 2:00 PM CST.
This program takes place inside our third-floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.
Enjoy jazz music from home with the New Orleans Jazz Museum! Join the Jazz Museum online for our daily Live-Stream Concert Series, in which jazz musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in at 2 pm on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free.
Rainy Eyes
Rainy Eyes (Irena Eide) is a Norwegian-born Americana singer-songwriter. She lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade and just recently relocated to Louisiana. Rainy Eyes has been writing music, performing, and touring throughout the US for the past decade. Both solo and with a band, her performances have a spellbinding, inspiring effect and a soulful, heartfelt and timeless sound with tight-knit harmonies, melodious solos, and thoughtful songwriting. Rainy Eyes' second solo album is set to release in 2022, recorded by Jeremy D’Antonio and Dirk Powell. Mixed, mastered, co-produced and featuring Dirk Powell as well as local Louisianan musicians such as Ric Robertson, Eric Adcock, Chris Stafford, Bill Smith, Gina Leslie, as well as Phoebe Hunt, Sam Grisman and more. Rainy Eyes has played with legendary artists such as Joan Baez, Willie Watson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peter Rowan, Dirk Powell, Laurie Lewis and many more.
Rainy Eyes has opened for bands like Willie Watson (Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave Rawlings Machine), Peter Rowan (Bill Monroe, Old and In The Way), Hubby Jenkins (Carolina Chocolate Drops) Jackie Greene (Black Crows), Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Jon Cleary, Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) and has played prominent stages like UC Berkeley Redwood Concert Series, Sweetwater in the Sun Festival, Sweetwater Music Hall, Henry Miller Library, Napa Opera House, Blue Note Napa, Ashkenaz, Far West Fest, Sonoma Mountain Music Festival, and toured throughout the United States for the past decade. Rainy Eyes also won "Best Song of the Month" at the Freight and Salvage West Coast Songwriters competition in April 2015 for her song, “Moon In The Mirror”, and has co-written two songs with Grammy-Award winner Peter Rowan. These songs are featured on her solo debut album released on August 2nd, 2019 produced by Eli West (Cahalen Morrison and Eli West) and also featured on banjo, guitar and harmonies and Amy Scher on fiddle and harmonies and Irena on guitar and lead vocals.
Rainy Eyes Band Swampy Folk Americana featuring Irena Eide (songwriter/vocals/guitar), Ethan Brasseaux (drums), Chris Stafford (electric guitar), Ian Guidroz (bass)