Moses Sumney at San Jose Jazz Winter Fest at Theatre on San Pedro Square

*This concert is co-presented by Universal Grammar

With just a guitar, a looping station, and an undeniable vocal dexterity, Moses Sumney is quickly become one of the hottest emerging artists of a young 2014. He has continued to astonish audiences in his native Los Angeles. His buzz is ready to go national after several regional publications have named him among the LA artists most likely to have a breakout year.


As LA Weekly raved when they listed Sumney as one of “10 L.A. Bands Who Will Blow Up In 2014,” “the soulful singer has an entire band residing within his throat.” Timeout LA noted Sumney is a “mix of D'Angelo, Elliott Smith, and Active Child,” yet goes on to mention that “even that [comparison] would fall flat...

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*This concert is co-presented by Universal Grammar

With just a guitar, a looping station, and an undeniable vocal dexterity, Moses Sumney is quickly become one of the hottest emerging artists of a young 2014. He has continued to astonish audiences in his native Los Angeles. His buzz is ready to go national after several regional publications have named him among the LA artists most likely to have a breakout year.


As LA Weekly raved when they listed Sumney as one of “10 L.A. Bands Who Will Blow Up In 2014,” “the soulful singer has an entire band residing within his throat.” Timeout LA noted Sumney is a “mix of D'Angelo, Elliott Smith, and Active Child,” yet goes on to mention that “even that [comparison] would fall flat. Every time he performs he stuns a captive audience silent: just with his voice, a guitar, and loop pedal.” Buzzbands LA referred to his sound as “evocative folk-soul” and called him a “one-man spectacle live,” going on to say that “no artist in recent memory has gone from zero to must-see more quickly than Sumney.”

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