Sunday 03th May 2026
Location: CLEERE’S BAR & THEATRE (Roots Festival 2026)
Rich Ruth, the recording project of Nashville multi-instrumentalist Michael Ruth, makes wholly immersive instrumental songs that thread the line between gleefully adventurous and calmingly meditative. His music starts in solitude with mesmerizing loops and drones anchoring the arrangements that are eventually colored in by an eclectic cast of collaborators. The resulting exploratory compositions, which combine spiritual jazz, synth-infused post-rock, and cosmic ambient, often beguile but they always soar with a palpable immediacy. His new album Water Still Flows is both his heaviest and his most cathartic. Across seven songs, the LP is both a document of an artist stretching the limits of his process and a testament to how songwriting can be a personally grounding force. So far in 2025, Rich Ruth has made a very successful Big Ears appearance (performing on his own as well as with Allison de Groot and Lonnie Holley.) He was tapped to open a recent Jack White show in Nashville. He recently wrapped an excellent support tour with Etran de L’Air, as well as a co-headline run with Hooveriii. He performed with Phosphorescent in July, both as an opener and a member of the band, and at Newport Jazz Fest in August. “A modern spiritual-jazz indebted wonder…I Survived, It’s Over is a complete trip, a record that successfully repurposes the isolation, trauma, and self-care of Covid into what might adequately be described as an instrumental masterpiece for this peculiar era. Prepare to be healed.”
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