Marti Jones and Don Dixon Concert
Massillon Museum Hosts Marti Jones and Don Dixon Concert
Singer/songwriters Marti Jones and Don Dixon will headline the Massillon Museum’s Rhythms Concert on Saturday, January 31. The doors will open for social time in the lobby at 6:45 p.m.; Saturday Nite Fish Fry will open at 7:15; Jones and Dixon will take the stage at approximately 8:45 p.m.
Marti Jones
Marti Jones, a singer and painter born in Uniontown, Ohio, first recorded an album (A&M) as a member of the band, Color Me Gone, in 1983. Her first solo album, "Unsophisticated Time" (A&M, 1985) was produced by Don Dixon. Jones and Dixon subsequently married, and Dixon continues to produce his wife's albums.
Two more albums for A&M in the 1980s ("Match Game" and "Used Guitars") featured supporting musicians including Marshall Crenshaw, Mitch Easter, The Uptown Horns, Paul Carrack, T-Bone Burnett, Darlene Love, and many others. Jones's sound encompassed jangle-pop, ballads, and even southern-style soul material. Her voice and style remind some of Dusty Springfield. Others compare her voice to that of Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, or Annie Lennox.
The artist's albums include original material—mostly written by Dixon or Dixon and Jones together. She also covers songs by singer/songwriters such as Janis Ian, Elvis Costello, John Hiatt, Jackie DeShannon, Richard Barone, and Graham Parker. For a move to the RCA label in 1990, Jones relied heavily on original material and adapted a more adult-contemporary sound. After one album ("Any Kind Of Lie") with RCA, she returned to her previous mix of originals and covers for "My Long Haired Life" and "Live from Spirit Square" in 1996 and "My Tidy Doily Dream" in 2002.
In the past few years, Jones has curtailed her singing career to focus on painting, but she toured with singer/songwriter Amy Rigby as "The Cynical Girls" in 2005. In 2008, Jones and Dixon released “Lucky Stars: New Lullabies for Old Souls,” a download-only album of soothing vocals and instrumentals—a departure from their previous sound.
View examples of Marti Jones’s art at
Don Dixon
Don Dixon, considered to be one of the key producers of the “jangle pop movement” of the early 1980s, has devoted his career as a singer, songwriter, musician, and producer to capturing the essence of "his life in the moment." Dixon's writing, production, and session credits include astroPuppees, Baby Shaker, Richard Barone, Jim Brock, Mark Bryan, Kim Carnes, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Caitlin Cary, Joe Cocker, The Connells, Counting Crows, Marshall Crenshaw, Pat DiNizio, The Edison Project, Fetchin Bones, GB Leighton, The Golden Palominos, Guadalcanal Diary, Hootie and the Blowfish, In Tua Nua, Marti Jones, Tommy Keene, Let's Active, James McMurtry, Moxy Fruvous, REM, The Red Clay Ramblers, The Smithereens, Snagglepuss, Ronnie Spector, The Spongetones, Chris Stamey, Matthew Sweet, The X-Teens, and dozens more.
Dixon’s solo debut, “Most of the Girls Like to Dance (But Only Some of the Boys Like To),” is a further affirmation of his love of classic pop melodies and spiky, Nick Lowe-inspired wordplay. After producing Jones’s “Unsophisticated Time,” he released his second solo effort, “Romeo at Juilliard,” in 1987 and the live “Chi-Town Budget Show” a year later. He returned to producing before releasing “Romantic Depressive” in 1995. Another lengthy hiatus preceded the 2000 release of “The Invisible Man” and its 2001 follow-up, “Note Pad #38,” His latest release, “The Entire Combustible World in One Small Room” followed in summer 2006. His longtime touring band, Jamie Hoover and Jim Brock recently named themselves "Don Dixon & the Jump Rabbits" and recorded a new platter, "The Nu-Look."
Delving into a new area of the arts, Dixon launched an acting career playing an alcoholic director in Todd Graff's 2003 film “Camp.”
Learn more about Don Dixon at
Saturday Nite Fish Fry
Artist Bili Kribbs describes the opening trio, Saturday Nite Fish Fry, as “country, folk, blues, Americana, New Orleans, classic singer/songwriter style, mellow, and sometimes sultry.” His sister Betsy Kribbs Harrison is their female vocalist. Male vocalist Steven Hughes sings and plays acoustic guitar and Darin Jacobs also plays acoustic guitar. The Stark County musicians have recently played at one of the Ananda Center’s “Art Displaced” Saturday night art events, the Geisen Haus, and private parties. Harrison can be reached at 330-361-9122.
Concert Details
The doors will open at 6:45 p.m. for social time; Saturday Nite Fish Fry will take the stage at 7:15 p.m.; Jones and Dixon will perform at approximately 8:45 p.m.
The $20 per-person pre-sale ($18 for Massillon Museum members) may be purchased in advance by calling the Massillon Museum at 330-833-4061 by visiting
Community members have stepped forward to make the Museum’s music series possible: In Tribute of Kevin Alden Hunt; Mel and Ann Herncane; Affinity Medical Center; A.A. Hammersmith Insurance, Inc.; Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffith and Dougherty Co.; FirstMerit; The Health Plan HomeTown Region; and The Eye Clinic, Inc. WKSU is the media sponsor. Grant support is provided by the Canton/Stark County Convention and Visitors’ Bureau, Ohio Arts Council, and Arts in Stark.
The Massillon Museum hosts out-of-the-mainstream musicians in the intimate setting of its main gallery to broaden the arts that it offers to the community. Remaining Saturday night concerts in the 2008–2009 season are Michael Searching Bear (
The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East, in downtown Massillon. Free parking is available on adjacent streets and in nearby city lots.
For more information, call the Massillon Museum at 330-833-4061 or visit
Media Contacts:
Christine Shearer, Massillon Museum Executive Director - 330-833-4061
Margy Vogt, Massillon Museum PR Coordinator - 330-832-8469 or 330-844-1525
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