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.