|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
    |
|
Listings are
in the opposite order of appearance: headliner is listed at the top,
next is the support band(s),
and the last band listed is the opener.
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
Thursday
March 21 2013 9:30PM -- doors at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $10 in advance / $12 at the door Music Video Release Show Lia Rose www.liarose.com/ folk alt-country americana indie rock Arann Harris And The Farm Band thestrongsauce.com/ Folk / Americana / Blues Lia Rose "In what is the last glorious strike in a hat-trick of precious songstresses today Lia Rose tucks us all in for the night with splendid production and fine writing. Appears she is moonlighting on a solo buzz from her duties with indie types Or, The Whale and Built For The Sea and by the sounds of it the break will do her no harm at all.." --mp3hugger.com “Beautiful blend of vocals and strings ... The instrumentals and vocals featured on Lia Rose’s album When You Need Me Most each possess a quiet strength. The two work together, one never overshadowing the other, making this a successful solo effort for the California indie singer/songwriter." -- Performer Magazine "Lia Rose sings with a refreshingly pure voice that is effortlessly engaging... [she] exhibited sincerity with both her gentle tone and her lyrics. She sat atop a stool barefoot, living behind her bangs, singing from her heart, and the audience loved it. Her peaceful sound of soft acoustic riffs paired with her smooth and fragile vocals offer something uniquely different. The event, put on by KC Turner in collaboration with KFOG radio was the perfect place to see Rose up close and personal. 'And we carry on as we’re meant to, and we all find home when we’re supposed to,' sang Rose. Her voice seemed to linger around the room with a dream-like quality, probably because she sounded a bit unreal. If you want something a little different with a lot of substance, check out one of her gigs." -- The Owl Mag Arann Harris And The Farm Band Just like his farm-spun songs, Petaluma songwriter Arann Harris is raw and exuberant. In conversation, the horn-rimmed glasses-clad Oakland transplant is all over the map—if the map spanned from the East Bay to a farm teeming with lambs, new babies, kids on field trips and music. "I'm just a big sweaty mess of exuberance," says Harris about his stage presence. As frontman for Arann Harris and the Farm Band, farm "hoke" is something that the tall, gangly musician says he embraces; it's not about being cool, but about being "raw," a style drawn on the simplicity of growing vegetables, what comes from the earth, the rawness of life. "I come from a summer camp background of call-and-response," explains Harris. "It's all about entertaining. We're campy." For example, the song "Shelf," from the band's latest album Consolation Prize, opens with the refrain "I'm raw, yes, I'm raw." He says the song's chorus, "I ain't no ding-dong, I ain't no ho-ho," was written with a call-and-response audience sing-along in mind. The band plays a form of hybrid hootenanny country blues that always gets a crowd stomping. Originally the Green String Band (their first album, Schoolhouse, was recorded on the Green String Farm), they've played benefits, barns, and stages across Sonoma County. They've survived an exit by the original drummer, who decided to devote himself to chicken farming. And most seriously, they've survived a brush with near-disaster in 2010 when Harris was hit head-on by a drunk driver while driving home from the family farm. The accident sent Harris to the hospital and left him with permanent scars, but he says it hasn't much affected his energy. It did inspire a couple of songs, though: "Heidi" tells the story of his fate intertwining with the 35-year old drunk driver on that rural Petaluma road. "Basically, it kind of provided material," says Harris. "When something shakes your world so much, it's what you sing about." For now, with a baby boy at home and a live schedule, the inveterate performer is keeping his eye on the possibilities rather than what might have been. After playing the Outside Lands Festival last summer in San Francisco, he's says he's ready for whatever's next. The only guarantee is that whatever it is, it will be fun, it will be wild, and it will be raw. "None of this has been planned, you know?" says Harris. ARANN HARRIS & THE FARM BAND: *One Drop* (live) from TINBIKE on Vimeo.  |