Oakhurst Porchfest is back! We are blessed to be joining up once again with the Oakhurst Presbyterian Church at 118 Second Avenue in Decatur. Our time slot is from 4-5 but I’d like to remind everyone there will be music on porches all around Oakhurst starting at noon and not ending until 6pm, so get there early, park your car somewhere and wander around! There will be some food available for a small donation (the church lights up the grill, y’all) but other food and beverages are encouraged for you to bring on your own. This is a family friendly, dog friendly event. Bring your wagon and get ready to boogie! For details about other performers visit https://www.oakhurstporchfest.org/map-and-schedule to find a digital map and downloadable program. Join my band afterwards at Winston’s in Marietta from 8-11.
I’m finally getting more travel gigs in; playing in North Carolina in August was inspiring. Headed to South Carolina this month and then to Savannah/Tybee in November. Probably adding some Wisconsin shows to the mix shortly, so keep checking back to the website!
Don’t forget to Save the Date for the WRFG Community Sessions February 22nd at the L5P Community Center from 4-6. This event will feature original songs by yours truly as well as Nathan Nelson and Scott Low. Do you like to hear songs straight from the heart? This is your chance…
VOTED ‘BEST ACOUSTIC ARTIST’ 2019 BY CREATIVE LOAFING’S BEST OF ATLANTA (READER’S COICE)
‘ ‘Atlanta has plenty of talented roots and blues singers. Mandi Strachota might be the best.’ – Hal Horowitz, Creative Loafing
“It is only after exploring and succeeding at risk-taking, that the confidence turns into freedom and limitlessness. In other words – being set free, is only the beginning.” – Mandi Strachota, regarding Unleashed
‘This album is open and honest – artists through the years have told their story in verse, in music and image. Mandi does all three with this album.’ – Amazon Review of Unleashed
‘The Atlanta artist brings outstanding vocals and a keen set of rhythms to Unleashed, sending a message extolling individualism in the midst of altruism, and an ever-present spirit of celebration in musical form’ – Gwendolyn Lewis
‘There are 13 songs on Unleashed, and all of them are strong and their own part of Strachota’s journey to set herself free. You will love her beautiful voice and appreciate the chance to share a little of both the darkness and the light Mandi chronicles for us here, knowing she triumphs in the end.’ -Rhetta Akamatsu
‘Auto-tune, shmauto-tune. There ain’t enough O’s in smooooooooooooth to describe what Mandi Strachota’s got going on.’ – Oakhurst Porchfest
Daredevil
Government Vacation
Bird
Have You No Shame
Water, Weed, and Whiskey
Don’t Worry Bout Me
Love Songs
Secret Tacos
Cuckoo
My Time To Shine
These Days
Scream
Ready To Run
Just Rain
You Were Right
The Chocolate Song
My Sweet Dream
Nothing Anyway
My Heaven
VOTED ‘BEST ACOUSTIC ARTIST’ 2019 BY CREATIVE LOAFING’S BEST OF ATLANTA (READER’S COICE)
“It is only after exploring and succeeding at risk-taking, that the confidence turns into freedom and limitlessness. In other words – being set free, is only the beginning.” – Mandi Strachota, regarding Unleashed
‘This album is open and honest – artists through the years have told their story in verse, in music and image. Mandi does all three with this album.’ – Amazon Review of Unleashed
‘The Atlanta artist brings outstanding vocals and a keen set of rhythms to Unleashed, sending a message extolling individualism in the midst of altruism, and an ever-present spirit of celebration in musical form’ – Gwendolyn Lewis
‘There are 13 songs on Unleashed, and all of them are strong and their own part of Strachota’s journey to set herself free. You will love her beautiful voice and appreciate the chance to share a little of both the darkness and the light Mandi chronicles for us here, knowing she triumphs in the end.’ -Rhetta Akamatsu
Daredevil
Government Vacation
Bird
Have You No Shame
Water, Weed, and Whiskey
Don’t Worry Bout Me
Love Songs
Secret Tacos
Cuckoo
My Time To Shine
These Days
Scream
Ready To Run
Just Rain
You Were Right
The Chocolate Song
My Sweet Dream
Nothing Anyway
My Heaven
VOTED ‘BEST ACOUSTIC ARTIST’ 2019 BY CREATIVE LOAFING’S BEST OF ATLANTA (READER’S COICE)
“It is only after exploring and succeeding at risk-taking, that the confidence turns into freedom and limitlessness. In other words – being set free, is only the beginning.” – Mandi Strachota, regarding Unleashed
‘This album is open and honest – artists through the years have told their story in verse, in music and image. Mandi does all three with this album.’ – Amazon Review of Unleashed
‘The Atlanta artist brings outstanding vocals and a keen set of rhythms to Unleashed, sending a message extolling individualism in the midst of altruism, and an ever-present spirit of celebration in musical form’ – Gwendolyn Lewis
‘There are 13 songs on Unleashed, and all of them are strong and their own part of Strachota’s journey to set herself free. You will love her beautiful voice and appreciate the chance to share a little of both the darkness and the light Mandi chronicles for us here, knowing she triumphs in the end.’ -Rhetta Akamatsu
Daredevil
Government Vacation
Bird
Have You No Shame
Water, Weed, and Whiskey
Don’t Worry Bout Me
Love Songs
Secret Tacos
Cuckoo
My Time To Shine
These Days
Scream
Ready To Run
Just Rain
You Were Right
The Chocolate Song
My Sweet Dream
Nothing Anyway
My Heaven