We hosted a show with Kalos a while ago and it was absolutely phenomenal. They're in town for a show at Ballard Homestead but we have the honor of hosting a workshop with them on the following day. Come learn a tune with some incredible masters of traditional music.

Headland, the title of Kalos’ latest release, refers to the dreamlike place between the land and the sea, which Kalos explores through their music. In this workshop, we will learn a tune and navigate this space together through arrangement. We will start with instruction on melody and backing, and then join together for discussion and arranging.

Open to all instruments.

Please purchase a ticket in advance:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6286061

11am - $30

So excited to host Bellingham all-stars Gallowglass!

With a combination of emotional vocal delivery, fresh melodic arrangements, and airtight accompaniment, Gallowglass has developed a style of contemporary Celtic folk that Irish Music Magazine calls "an inspired approach to the tradition." The group, featuring Jan Peters (vocals, harmonica), Mishon Kirkland (vocals, Irish flute), Zach Bauman (Irish Bouzouki) and David Pender Lofgren (Bodhrán), has become one of the Pacific Northwest's most celebrated Celtic music ensembles. Gallowglass has shared the stage with Dervish, Peter Rowan, Jolie Holland, and other luminaries of the folk scene, establishing themselves as innovators among their peers and captivating audiences with their signature sound. The release of their album, 'Dear Ruin' in 2024, has garnered critical acclaim and is enjoying international radio play. While Gallowglass is steeped in tradition, they are keeping their eyes on the horizon and have built a fire for all to gather around.

Small sample of the amazingness here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jho5YZhKFuE&t=1s

These concerts fill up fast so please RSVP to frontierhomeconcerts@gmail.com - it’s a new thing.

6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies

7:30 - Concert

$25 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians. Venmo or cash accepted at the door.

***We are a little hard to find!***

More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

It’s been a bit since we’ve done a concert, but we’re coming back with one of our most popular performers - the Grammy-winning and incomparably phenomenal Luke Bulla! This was such an incredible show and will definitely fill up. Please note that you must RSVP to frontierhomeconcerts@gmail.com to reserve a seat.

After taking up fiddle at the age of four and winning the fiddle contest at Weiser a total of six times, Luke established himself in Nashville as a member of Ricky Skaggs' band, Kentucky Thunder.

He has gone on to record or play with a constellation of incredible musicians including Brandi Carlile, Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Chris Thile, Patty Griffin, and Earl Scruggs to name just a few.

His band, W.P.A. has included Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek, Fiction Family), Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello and the Imposters, The Attractions, Los Lobos), Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Beck), and Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Cracker). When not performing with W.P.A. or as a solo artist, he tours as a member of Lyle Lovett's Large Band.

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6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies

7:30 - Concert

$25 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians. Venmo or cash accepted at the door.

***We are a little hard to find!***

More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

I’m so excited to welcome Paper Wings back to Frontier Home! They came through several years ago on what will likely be a similar sunny, late summer afternoon. Sitting out on the deck and listening to their truly delicious harmony singing is one of my best house concert memories. They’re wonderful songwriters too and this was one of my favorite concerts we’ve hosted here.

Paper Wings is a Nashville-based indie folk duo composed of longtime friends and co-writers Emily Mann and Wila Frank. The music they make together features heart-filled harmony singing over a warm and rustic intertwining of acoustic guitar and clawhammer banjo. Mann & Frank have a unique ability to tastefully reference nostalgic sounds of American folk & country music while maintaining their own compelling style of unpretentious and sincere lyricism. The strength and solitude one might find in the wilderness is a common theme throughout their writing and their songs are often set in nature and lovingly transport listeners to open landscapes. After a two-year pause in the project, the duo is playing shows again in anticipation of their upcoming third album.

Both with roots in rural parts of the West Coast, Mann & Frank eventually found their way to Nashville where they recorded their debut album Paper Wings in 2017 and sophomore album Clementine which came out in 2019. In 2020 the duo were on the road opening for Avi Kaplan’s ‘I’ll Get By’ tour. It was soon after this that they shared Marigold, the first pre-released single from the upcoming album which is a delicate and hope-filled ode to new beginnings and second chances. This is the first peek into their upcoming album which is an explores themes of grounding and rediscovering a sense of innocence.

Birds of Play is a musical collaboration born from a mutual love of desert canyons, raging rivers, rocky mountaintops, and juice picnics. After many years of gatherings that have revolved around adventuring by day and playing tunes around campfires by night, ‫the time has come for the birds to leave the nest and share their music with the world‪

With a dynamic mix of sentimentality and playfulness, Birds of Play's original music will take you‪ on a joyous journey filled with tales of love lost and found, ballads of wild places, and the radical idea that being happy for no reason at all is reason enough. 

“The gentle mandolin picking and the cooing acoustic guitar lines fall together in a gorgeous cascade, like a serene creek babbling in the woods. Over top, Paul’s smooth and steady voice carries a sense of sincerity that’s a true rarity. ” - American Songwriter

6:30 - Campfire, tacos, potluck
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians, we put some stuff out but feel free to BYO drinks/snacks too.

***We are a little hard to find!***
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

Don’t miss this Frontier Home’s first visual art exhibit before it closes!

Come nosh, wander the exhibit, and hear from Sarah Lypstk & Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, the artists behind Sphagnan: Ink & Logic.

Sphagnan: Ink & Logic is a meditation on gravity, electromagnetism, bog ecosystems and sigil-making that explores bog rituals, Green River mythos, predation, living outside, space-time travel, ink making, digital witchcraft, logic symbols, adventure, and transformation; Gravity’s Rainbow for Girls.

Lypstk is an author, artist and scholar. Her paper”Disrupted Values, Erupting Culture: Cabaret and the Sexual Persona in Weimar Berlin" is cited frequently. Her first book COMPLICITY (STORIES) was published in 2014 by Publication Studio Paris. Her most recent exhibition was RANK AMATEUR at Moss Art Space. Lypstk has just returned from a writer’s residency in Lisbon, Portugal.

Trainor is an artist, writer, lecturer, performer and curator. Her last solo exhibition was Let Us Not Confuse Zero With The Stillness Of Electrons at Center On Contemporary Art (COCA). She has recently been included in exhibitions and video projects in Berlin and Münster, Germany. She is preparing for a residency and exhibition at Captive Portal in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2024.

Trainor & Lypstk’s previous collaborations include Hedgewitch Portals at Equinox Studios in 2017 and a proposal workshop that ended in the fiery destruction of the original Sphagnum bog tent. They are also the founding members of Universal Mind Control, a psychic team competing in the World Telekinesis Competition in 2021 and 2012 when they came in second in international competition.
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Frontier Home is located at 2121 17th Ave S in North Beacon Hill. We’re a little hard to find. Navigate to 16th and S. Walker and we’re the log cabin at the end of the street on the left. The actual address will take you to the bottom of the hill. If that happens, just come up the stairs. We’re a very short walk from the Beacon Hill light rail!

Cláudio Rabeca is a composer, singer, teacher, music producer and luthier from the Northeast of Brazil. The rabeca (a fiddle originating in Portugal used in Brazilian forró music) is Cláudio’s main source of inspiration and musical development. He has played on stages all over the world, with Forró de Rabeca being the highlight of his career. He is preparing a new cd for 2023, which will consist entirely of instrumental Forró de Rabeca.

Forró de Rabeca features percussionist/composer Júnior Teles, produce/composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Samico, percussionist/tambourine player Negadeza, and percussionist Guga Amorim. They will also be joined by Daniel Steinberg on pífano, flute, and melodica.

6:30 - Campfire, tacos, potluck
7:30 - Concert

$30 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians, we put some stuff out but feel free to BYO drinks/snacks too.

***We are a little hard to find!***
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

Our first foray into hosting visual art is going to get off to an epic start with “Sphagnan: Ink & Logic” – new works by Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (@meg.han.el.izabeth.train.or) and Sarah Lypstk (@slypstk)

Join us for a meditation on electromagnetism, sigil-making, logic symbols, Green River mythos, predation, adventure, and transformation; Gravity’s Rainbow for Girls.

Opening 6/23, 6pm
Closing Talk 7/23, 4pm

Dumpster Joe and Taylor “The Boys” Thomas play rags, jazz, hokum, and country blues from the 20’s and 30’s on res-o-phonic guitar and cello. They also play originals inspired by these genres. Both developed their musical repertoires as traveling buskers, learning songs and absorbing influences from musicians all over the US of A. Some veterans of the NW folk scene may recognize Dumpster from his time playing with other acts such as The Dunghill Rooster Strutters, Conjugal Visitors, and Baby Gramps.

Stone & Sue’s Forty Drop Few are a trio that are completely consumed by music of the 1920s and 1930s! They play everything from Hillbilly, Portuguese and Mexican string band music to jazz, popular and country blues tunes. “This golden era of music we find to be perhaps the most beautiful creation of humanity and it is a necessity that we play it, only with utmost respect and attempt at preserving it in the most authentic way possible.”

Take a listen!

https://dumpsterjoe.bandcamp.com/album/rollin-joes-toes

Or a look on their YouTube! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCw-FJn_4I

6:30 - Campfire, tacos, potluck
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians, we put some stuff out but feel free to BYO drinks/snacks too.

***We are a little hard to find!***
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

With an irreverent respect for tradition, a poet’s aversion to non-load-bearing lyrics, a fearless imagination and an unapologetically older-millennial sensibility, Kat Bula brings a singular voice to contemporary bluegrass and Americana.

As a side player/band member, Bula has toured extensively with bands ranging from hardline traditional bluegrass and Western swing, to indie rock and metal. Along the way she’s found opportunities to work with bluegrass legends such as Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Molly Tuttle, and Missy Raines; cult-folk icon Jason Webley, Celtic-pop outfit The Clumsy Lovers, and math-rock group Rooftops, to name a few.

Olivia Brownlee is an unforgettable performer and singer-songwriter with deep roots in early-20th century jazz and cowboy music, as well as a master's degree in theater for social change.

Since October 2014, Brownlee has recorded and released a new song every month, each recorded in a different studio. This project, dubbed "Songography" and released through Patreon and Soundcloud, now includes close to 100 songs, each bearing the sonic stamp of the studio it was recorded in and the collaborators involved.

Have a listen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfEieCQCOuo...

6:30 - Campfire, Tacos
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians, we put some stuff out but feel free to BYO drinks/snacks too.

***We are a little hard to find!***
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

The first time I heard Joseph Decosimo's new album, "While You Were Slumbering," it absolutely floored me. The effect has not lessened much with subsequent listens. The record was one of the best folk albums of last year, and Joseph is one of my favorite interpreters of Appalachian music. Don't miss a chance to hear him at the old log cabin!

Joseph Decosimo has introduced audiences around the world to the beauty and vitality of the region’s music. A student of the last master traditional musicians in his home region of Tennessee, Joseph draws on a well of profound creativity and repertoire even as he creates fresh sounds. His performances are inviting and nourishing, connecting audiences to the older music’s transcendent beauty. Joseph also works outside of the traditional music world. His playing can be heard on recordings by fellow Durham, NC artists Hiss Golden Messenger, Wye Oak, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Elephant Micah, and others.

Put on a warm pot of tea on a rainy night and have a listen: https://josephdecosimo.bandcamp.com/.../while-you-were...

6:30 - Campfire, potluck, I'll order some pizzas
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians, we put some stuff out but feel free to BYO drinks/snacks too.

Since I moved to the northwest, I've come to think of Eli West's music as something of a soundtrack to this region. An essential part of every road trip playlist, it's been woven into so many good memories and travels through this state that it's taken me a while to write this because I keep getting lost in happy reveries.

I'm pretty sure that every time I have run into Eli, I've asked if he'd be interested in doing a concert over here. While he is often off touring the world, I'm thrilled that the universe has aligned in such a way that this is finally going to happen.

If you're out on a roadtrip of your own, may I recommend Eli's latest release, which is brilliant: https://elidoes.bandcamp.com/

Don't miss this one!

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6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies

7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians

***We are a little hard to find!***

More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

SOLD OUT

Coming all the way from Dublin, we're incredibly honored to host brothers Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn - Ye Vagabonds. I was an instant fan of their music and I think you will be too. Beautiful sibling harmonies, tasteful instrumentals, traditional songs and originals that seem like they'll become traditional given enough time. They've been selling out shows all over Europe and have a new album out on Rough Trade offshoot River Lea. The Irish Examiner described them as "being at the fore of a new wave of Irish folk."

Have a listen to their music and imagine hearing them play on a cozy, rainy night over here. It will be perfect.

https://youtu.be/MTcCsIsaF7c
http://yevagabonds.com

We're trying to make sure these guys are well-supported on their international tour so this is a ticketed event with tickets at $30. As always, 100% of revenue goes directly to the band. Also very likely to sell out so get tickets early!

6:30 - Tacos, snacks, BYOB
7:30 - Concert

After taking up fiddle at the age of four and winning the fiddle contest at Weiser a total of six times, Luke established himself in Nashville as a member of Ricky Skaggs' band, Kentucky Thunder.

He has gone on to record or play with a constellation of incredible musicians including Brandi Carlile, Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Chris Thile, Patty Griffin, and Earl Scruggs to name just a few.

His band, W.P.A. has included Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek, Fiction Family), Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket), Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek, I’m With Her), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello and the Imposters, The Attractions, Los Lobos), Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Beck), and Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Cracker). When not performing with W.P.A. or as a solo artist, he tours as a member of Lyle Lovett's Large Band.

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6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies

7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians

Indoor and outdoor seating will be available

***We are a little hard to find!***

More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

Vin Voleur brings the romance of the past to the live stage today with classic European and English-language songs made famous by Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich and other singers of the early 20th Century. Originally formed by accordionist Sylvia Wiedemann and vocalist Joy Von Spain in 2012, VIN VOLEUR recently welcomed into the group internationally-renowned cellist Lori Goldston to make a trio with an unforgettable sound.

Vin Voleur brings the listener back in time to the streets of Paris, to the cafés & cabarets of yesteryear, in style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxW927EMikA&t=3s...

7:30 - Campfire, wine, cheese
8:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians

Indoor and outdoor seating will be available

***We are a little hard to find!***
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

We are honored to host this evening with two legendary pickers: Grant Gordy and Jacob Jolliff.

Gordy and Jolliff will also host individual workshops on their respective instruments on the day of the show.

WORKSHOPS
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Mapping the Fretboard - Grant Gordy (guitar)

Building technique and what to do with it - Jacob Jolliff (mandolin)

Workshops are both 90min, $40

Indoor and outdoor seating will be available.

Don't miss this one!

6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies

7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians.

Indoor and outdoor seating will be available.

We are a little hard to find!
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

GRANT GORDY
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For several years Brooklyn-based guitarist Grant Gordy has been a major voice on the American "acoustic music" scene, and one of the most highly regarded young instrumentalists of his generation. Having held the guitar chair in the legendary David Grisman Quintet for six years, he's also worked alongside such musical luminaries as Edgar Meyer, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka and Darol Anger. Grant has performed all over North America and Europe, everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Montreal Jazz Festival; Jazz at Lincoln Center to Bonnaroo.

His music has been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts, and he's received attention from international music periodicals such as The Fretboard Journal, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Japanese bluegrass publication Moonshiner, Just Jazz Guitar and Flatpicking Guitar Magazine.

JACOB JOLIFF
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After many years touring with Yonder Mountain String Band, mandolinist Jacob Jolliff now fronts the The Jacob Jolliff Band, a group of virtuosic pickers that play Jacob's original instrumentals, as well as showcase his singing. They tour nationally in the US and have also travelled to Scotland and Australia to perform.

Jacob’s all-original first album, entitled, “Instrumentals, Vol. 1” was released in 2018.

Over the years, Jacob has had pleasure of sharing the stage with many legendary musicians spanning many genres including Darol Anger, Tony Trischka, Sam Bush, Ronnie McCoury, Jerry Douglas, Bryan Bowers, John Popper, The David Grisman Quintet, Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, Michael Daves, and many more. Currently, he lives in New York City, and can be heard around town playing with his own projects as well as sitting in with his friends' groups in a wide range of styles.

Polish-Colombian Stash Wyslouch is an avant-garde Bluegrass guitarist, singer and songwriter. His music delights in story-telling, improvisation and outer-space worthy composition. Despite his Heavy-Metal beginnings in middle and high school, Bluegrass music has been central to Wyslouch's life for the past 15 years touring and recording with groups such as The Deadly Gentlemen, Bruce Molsky's Mountain Drifters, The Jacob Jolliff Band, and Tony Trischka's Early Roman Kings.

His 4th and most recent album “Plays and Sings Bluegrass Vol. II” was released April 30, 2021. Conceived as a gift back to the music that’s framed his career, “Plays and Sings Bluegrass Vol. II” is a collection of zanily deconstructed Bluegrass classics. “Wyslouch tries to approach bluegrass from completely new angles — upside down, sideways, an interdimensional vortex only accessible from within his own mind.” – WBUR.org (March 2021, A. Mason)

“Stash and his band have really broken musical boundaries by doing things that just don't seem possible on acoustic instruments.” – Billy Strings

“A brilliant and Free-thinking Mind” - Chris Eldridge (The Punch Brothers)

“Heavy acoustic laced with musical cosmology” – Tony Trischka

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6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies

7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians.

Indoor and outdoor seating will be available.

We are a little hard to find!
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

From raging fiddle tunes, to saxophone solos and unrequited love songs, the music of The Faux Paws would be hard to pin down with standard genre descriptions. The trio’s contagious groove, and feel-good melting pot folk music has been honed over ten years of playing together, and is the sound of three close friends (two of which happen to be brothers), who feel a musical kinship that transcends any stylistic limitations. Now, after nearly a decade of music making, the bi-coastal trio are releasing their self-titled debut album “The Faux Paws”

We are a little hard to find!
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians.

New World String Project will be reviving a cherished holiday tradition this year. The well known Winterdance Celtic Christmas Celebration will return, with members of Molly's Revenge and an injection of Scandinavian tradition. This year's music will include Celtic seasonal favorites from previous years, as well as new music with a decidedly Nordic twist. Attendees will enjoy virtuosic performances on exotic instruments like nyckelharpa, cittern, Celtic harp, and cajon, as well as fiddle, guitar, and octave mandolin.

The core of the Winterdance show is New World String Project, comprised of four highly skilled and well known multi-instrumentalists that have joined forces to create an exciting tapestry of traditional music. Band members Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter have played Swedish, Celtic and original tunes for many years together, while John Weed and Stuart Mason are known as long-time members of the legendary Molly's Revenge. Before the pandemic, the quartet honed their chops and found their voice as a band by touring up and down the West Coast, where audiences were enchanted by their rare instruments and masterful skills. The result is something new and uniquely their own--a sound rooted in the older traditions of Scandinavia, Appalachia, and the Celtic lands, yet shimmering with modern influences as well.

Seating is limited and tickets are required; see below.

SAFETY STUFF

We have only done one (outdoor) concert since this mess started, but we are making arrangements for this to be as safe and enjoyable as possible.

Vax Passport - you will need to show proof of vaccination or a negative test in the past 48hrs.

Masks - wear em indoors and when you're close to people you don't know.

Indoor/Outdoor Seating - we will have 15 seats in the studio, and 12 outside under a heated but open-walled tent. When you buy tickets, you will need to choose which seating option you prefer.

Dinner (usually tacos) - 6:30pm BYO bevs and snax.

Concert - 7pm ish

Tickets available here.

We could not be more excited to welcome Doran! Doran is the new project of Channing Showalter and Annie Schermer (West of Roan), Elizabeth Laprelle (Anna & Elizabeth), and award-winning ethnomusicologist/musician Brian Dolphin.

Doran will be celebrating the release of their brand new album, which The Guardian has already chosen as its

Folk Album of the Month (bit.ly/3BIbDS5). Doran also made an appearance on the weekly roundup of the best new music on NPR's All Songs Considered (bit.ly/d7ghrna).

This is stunningly creative music from some of our favorite musicians - a perfect soundtrack to an Autumn evening in the northwest.

Seating is limited and tickets are required; see below.

SAFETY STUFF

We have only done one (outdoor) concert since this mess started, but we are making arrangements for this to be as safe and enjoyable as possible.

Vax Passport - you will need to show proof of vaccination or a negative test in the past 48hrs.

Masks - wear em indoors and when you're close to people you don't know.

Indoor/Outdoor Seating - we will have 15 seats in the studio, and 12 outside under a heated but open-walled tent. When you buy tickets, you will need to choose which seating option you prefer.

Dinner (usually tacos) - 6:30pm BYO bevs and snax.

Concert - 7pm ish

Tickets: bit.ly/3q0KiIB

Gibrana Cervantes is a Mexican violinist and improviser. As a classically trained musician, she takes on a melodic and experimental style that can be heard in Amor Muere and Vyctoria projects where she is a founding member.

Individually, she has focused her work as a violinist on sound processing to use noise as a compositional tool, mixing atmosphere with melody. She is the founder and curator of the sound gallery 316centro, a space focused on bringing to light the different manifestations of sound art that mark musical life in Mexico City.

Currently she has focused her work on cloud forest bioacoustics applying extended techniques of the violin, manipulating with electronic elements and the composition of her first solo album.

Lori Goldston is an American cellist and composer. Accomplished in a wide variety of styles, including classical, world music, rock and free improvisation, she came to prominence as the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York.

Current and former collaborators include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Cat Power, and many more.

Dinner - 6:30
Concert - 7ish

To limit attendance, this is a ticketed event: www.eventbrite.com/e/gibrana-cervantes-lori-goldston-tickets-164948536513

This will be outdoors on the deck. Vaxxed folks only pls.

Jefferson Hamer is a songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His personal influences include classic British folk icons such as Richard Thompson and Bert Jansch, golden-era songwriters in the Gordon Lightfoot vein, cosmic American country from Gram Parsons to the Grateful Dead, steely guitar twangsters, bluegrass harmony singers, and progressive innovators of Irish traditional music such as Planxty and the Bothy Band.

Jefferson’s diverse musical background is borne out on many fruitful collaborations. With Hadestown creator Anais Mitchell, he wrote and recorded Child Ballads, an album of reimagined English folk songs which earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten Folk releases of the year. His duo with Dublin-born songwriter and traditional musician Eamon O’Leary, The Murphy Beds, has toured extensively across the USA and Europe and performed with Glen Hansard, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and Sam Amidon. 

He will be joined for this concert by acclaimed bassist Jonti Siman. 

We are a little hard to find!
More information and directions here: https://www.frontierhome.fun/the-facts

6:30 - Tacos! BYOB and munchies
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians.

Ryan McKasson, Eric McDonald and Jeremiah McLane are masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges. Their individual artistry is enhanced when together. In short, the sum creates a greater whole. The result is an alluring complexity, full of spontaneous musicality. Pulling from parallel strands of influence, they create a swirling level of intensity that traverses darkness, light, and everywhere in between. An air of mystery pervades a sound compelling enough to transcend boundaries and appeal to music lovers of all stripes.

https://kalosband.com/about

https://vimeo.com/363415707

Co-sponsored with Beacon Arts

6:30 - Community potluck
7:30 - Concert

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians.

More information about Frontier Home concerts and directions here.

It's been a wonderful year of music, magic, and community, here at the old log cabin. We're ending the season big with a holiday house concert and party featuring a couple of our favorite musicians and people: Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons!

It will be a full evening of festivating, with holiday pies, wintery nosh and nog, consensual mistletoe, reindeer games, and a very special house concert! Come early, stay lateish; it's been a great year and we'd love to celebrate with you all.

6:30 - Fun begins
7:30 - Concert
After-concert holiday hangout

$20 suggested contribution; 100% to the musicians

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Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons have been performing American roots music together since 2010. The music they play is inspired by early 20th century American folk, novelty songs and black Americana.

Hunter, born in the African nation of Lesotho and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, is a classically trained violinist who studied music around the world. Seamons has shown a devotion to Northwest American folk music, he is the executive producer of the 2017 Smithsonian Folkways album, Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs.

Their music is one part of The Rhapsody Project, an integration of performance and teaching through public events and school workshops. Designed to bring together people across generational and cultural divides through music, Rhapsody is a Seattle-based, community endeavor.

https://www.benjoemusic.com/

https://www.therhapsodyproject.org/

Robert Sarazin Blake

In 1997, Robert Sarazin Blake dropped out of college and hit the road. The folk music of his father’s house had combined with the DIY punk ethos of the day and produced his first batch of songs, Another Irrelevant Year. Eleven full length albums into his career, he’s continued to write pulling from folk roots, his travels, his contemporaries, and the quiet spot in the back of his mind. The writing has evolved, mellowing with experience and expanding with reference, but the essence of the work has remained the same-strong narratives solidly built on the folk foundation and fully in the immediacy of the now.

Performing 200 shows a year, Blake is a world class performer in a neighborhood venue. The show is a combination of songs and rambles landing somewhere between a concert and a theatrical instillation. The neighborhoods have been all over Ireland and the US and occasionally in Canada, Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark, Germany and France.

From his home in Bellingham (WA), Blake started his own record label SameRoomRecords, "recordings of songs and musicians in the same room and the same time" -- an oddly unique idea in an era of digitally manipulated sounds -- and has sold over 10,000 albums from his suitcase.

He is also the founder of the Bellingham's Subdued Stringband Jamboree which (this was not on his website) is my favorite music festival of the summer.

$20 suggested contribution, 100% goes to the band.

In the northwest of my imagination, there's always fog floating through some tall woods at the edge of a vast dark sea, and the mysterious harmonies of West of Roan are the soundtrack to that. So lucky to have Annie and Channing coming back to teach us some songs and techniques.

CREATING HARMONIES THROUGH INTUITIVE LISTENING

We invite you to come explore ideas of what harmony singing can be, and learn some basic techniques in an intuitive path to 2 part singing. We have a “no rules” approach and we love drones, dissonance, and the eery and powerful capacity that two unaccompanied voices have. Most of all, we believe that we can all use our true voices to sing, and our bodies to listen. We will demo several different techniques, sing tones as a group, and learn a simple melody to experiment with creating harmonies. All abilities and experience levels are welcome.

https://westofroan.bandcamp.com/album/west-of-roan

$15 suggested contribution (or as your means allow); 100% to the musicians.

6:30p - tea and snacks
7:00p - workshop

Jordan Tice is well known for his versatile flat picking guitar style. This is a rare opportunity to see Jordan perform outside of his roles in "Hawktail" and "Horse Country."

Jordan is 1/4 of Hawktail, featuring a band of acoustic instrumentalists members of Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, Crooked Still, and A Prairie Home Companion. Jordan also leads a band called "Horse Country," Dominick Leslie (Deadly Gentlemen) on mandolin, Mike Witcher (Peter Rowan) on dobro, Brittany Haas (Crooked Still) on fiddle.

Jordan Tice is a singular voice on the American roots music scene. Over the last ten years, he has developed a reputation as a unique and versatile guitarist and prolific composer of some of the most thoughtful and well-crafted tunes of his generation. Jordan has a voice and sonic aesthetic that is all his own with which he filters the sounds and conventions of American Music into something unique. Don't miss his solo performance!

$20 suggested contribution, 100% goes to the band.

Back from the grave! I haven't been hosting these for a bit because summer weekends are tough. But now it's raining and you need singing to remain emotionally alive. This is just a fun and very casual song circle. It generally centers around songs with great choruses that are easy to sing in groups. Gospel, worksongs, folk, labor anthems, and anything you might find in Rise Up Singing. Please bring a song! Instruments optional.

Free, and there's homemade pie and coffee.

Frontier Home and Beacon Arts are giddily excited to welcome back two of the finest young players in American traditional acoustic music. Note that we're going to have this one at the Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club because it's an awesome lawn bowling club, and is big enough to seat a lot of people.

In this duo, Allison de Groot, known for her intricate clawhammer banjo work with Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, joins forces with powerhouse fiddler Tatiana Hargreaves (Gillian Welch, Laurie Lewis) to create a sound that is adventurous, masterful, and original, while never losing sight of what makes the music endure.

Allison has toured all over the world with various groups, performing at venues such as Trafalgar Square in London, Newport Folk Festival and other major festivals across the US and Canada. She combines love and passion for old-time music, technical skill and a creative approach to the banjo. Allison has immersed herself in American roots music through festivals such as the Appalachian String Band Festival in West Virginia, making pilgrimages to musical communities in North Carolina and participating in the acoustic music scene in Boston, MA. For more information about Allison, visit www.allisondegroot.com

Since releasing her first solo album “Started Out To Ramble” in 2009, Tatiana has toured with musicians such as Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Laurie Lewis, Darol Anger, and Bruce Molsky. From being the second woman to place first at the Clifftop Appalachian Fiddle Contest, to her bluegrass fiddling on Laurie Lewis’ GRAMMY-nominated album The Hazel And Alice Sessions, Hargreaves shows a musical fluency that flows between old time and bluegrass worlds with ease. For more information about Tatiana, visit www.tatianahargreaves.com

$20 suggested contribution, 100% goes to the band.

6:00 pm optional potluck, 7:00 pm concert.

Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/Mt4r6TYWLWzsNCHR7