The Tallest Man On Earth with Gwenifer Raymond

About This Event

Swedish folk artist with opener Gwenifer Raymond.

Kristian Matsson, the singer-songwriter behind the name, grew up in the rural Dalarna region of Sweden and built his reputation on a booming, Dylan-indebted voice that sounds enormous for one guy with an acoustic guitar — this Thalia Hall stop lands right as he's readying his eighth album, Just Beyond Endless Mountain, due the same month.

Opener Gwenifer Raymond has an origin story as unlikely as her sound: she holds a PhD in astrophysics from Cardiff University and spent years as a video-game audio programmer before her fingerstyle guitar playing — equal parts John Fahey's American Primitive school and the folk-horror atmosphere of the Welsh countryside — earned her a genre nickname of her own, Welsh Primitive. Worth knowing: tickets start around $50, and the show's at 8 PM.