At the artist's request, this will be a non-smoking performance.

It's been 4 years since Joe Pug quit his day job as a carpenter, but his remarkable rise in the music world has been driven by the same hard-worn work ethic. His path has been an unusual one, which has often challenged the traditional rulebook of the music industry, but even now as he prepares to release his second album "The Great Despiser", it has always been characterized by one prevailing idea: Find a way.

After dropping out of college the day before he was to start his senior year, he moved to Chicago and picked up the guitar he hadn't played since his...[more]