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Opening the night’s musical festivities featured the multi-award-winning, Missouri-born
performer Samantha Fish with Jesse Dayton. Samantha can perform multiple genres styles

in her playing, including rock, country, funk, bluegrass, and ballads. Jesse Dayton

performed and sang with Samantha throughout her performance. Jesse Dayton is a

musician, actor and record producer from Austin, Texas, best known for his guitar

contributions to albums by country musicians including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings,
and Willie Nelson. Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton performed for about an hour and the

audience kept asking for more!

Samantha and Jesse recently

released the album “Death Wish

Blues,” leading off their show

with the title cut and performing
several more songs from the

album: “Down In the Mud,” “Lay

It Down,” “No Apology,” and

“Settle for Me.” Samantha’s set

also included some of her older

originals, including “Hello
Stranger,” “Don’t Say You

Love Me,” “Nothing’s Gonna

Stop Me Lovin’ You,” “You’ll

Never Change,” and “I Feel So

Good,” as well as a magical
cover of the classic “I Put A

Spell On You.” She put on a

mesmerizing show!