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Darlingside
Darlingside is a four-person indie folk band from Boston, MA. The band consists of Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner, and David Senft. Their style has been described as “exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque folk-pop” by All Songs Considered. Their latest full-length album, ''Fish Pond Fish'', was released in October 2020. History Darlingside began as a five-piece touring Indie rock band in the fall of 2009. Members (Sam, Don, Auyon, Harris, and David) met as undergraduates while attending Williams College in Williamstown, MA. A previous iteration of the band existed while they were students and included as many as seven members (other members were Eli Walker, Dan Wollin, and Shea Chen). In 2010, the band went on their first national tour and released a self-produced six-track studio EP, ''EP 1''. They released their debut full-length album, ''Pilot Machines'', in 2012, which was recorded and co-produced by Nathaniel Kunkel (who has worked wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extralife (album)
''Extralife'' is the third studio album by the American Folk band Darlingside. It was released on February 23, 2018, by More Doug Records and Thirty Tigers. Release On February 7, 2018, the band announced the release of their third studio album, along with the single "Futures". The music video for the single, which was directed by Keith Boynton, features a time traveler's attempt to reset the balance of the world. Darlingside's lead vocalist Don Mitchell explained the single: "'Futures,' to me, is about taking our collective dread for what's to come and turning what could be a helpless feeling into a call to action, however insignificant that action might feel at the time," Critical reception ''Extralife'' was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81 based on 7 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 82 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Maloney
Heather Maloney (born December 4, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter. In 2009, she self-released her debut album, ''Cozy Razor's Edge'', followed by ''Time & Pocket Change'' in 2011. In 2012, Maloney signed with Northampton, Massachusetts, Northampton-based label Signature Sounds Recordings where she released ''Heather Maloney'' (2013), ''Woodstock'' (2014), ''Making Me Break'' (2015) and ''Just Enough Sun'' (2018). The full length album ''Soil in the Sky'' was released in 2019. Early life and education Maloney was raised in Hamburg, New Jersey. She studied classical operatic singing, improvisational jazz vocals, and music theory. From 2006 to 2009, Maloney lived and worked at a silent meditation retreat center in Barre, Massachusetts, taking vows of silence for days at a time. According to Maloney, the silence helped her discover songwriting; she wrote her first songs while living at the retreat center. Career In December 2013, a ''New York Times'' blog wrote about and sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Canty
Caitlin Canty (born January 24, 1982) is an American singer/songwriter. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' calls Canty's alto a "casually devastating voice" and NPR says her music mixes "a gritty side with aching ballads.". Originally from Vermont, Canty moved to East Nashville, Tennessee in 2015. She tours internationally and spends much of her time on the road. Canty writes and performs primarily on a 1930s Recording King guitar. Early life and education Canty was born in Vermont. She sang in the Proctor Junior/Senior High School chorus and played the trombone in the band. At age 17, she was given a guitar as a Christmas gift and learned to play from a VHS tape of guitar lessons. Canty attended Williams College in Williamstown, MA. She majored in biology and took several songwriting classes and began writing songs. Career After college, Canty moved to New York City, where she was hired as the first employee of ''Live from the Artists Den'', and later worked as a sustainabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tall Heights
Tall Heights is an electrofolk duo based in Boston, USA. The group was formed in 2009 and consists of the singer/guitarist Tim Harrington and the singer/cellist Paul Wright. Tours have also had the percussionist/singer Paul Dumas. Their albums are ''Man of Stone'', ''Neptune'' and ''Pretty Colors For Your Actions''. Biography Harrington and Wright met in their home town of Sturbridge, Massachusetts. They began busking in Boston, keeping their songs to the essential elements to make them easier to perform on the street. Shortly thereafter, Ryan Montbleau took the band under his wing after watching them perform at the Lizard Lounge Open Mic Challenge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Montbleau and Tall Heights began performing together, releasing an EP, ''All or Nothing / Fast Car'', in 2014. Tall Heights established itself as a Boston indie-folk staple alongside The Ballroom Thieves and Darlingside. Their first EP, ''Rafters'', and their first full-length album, ''Man of Stone'', ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shea Chen
Shea is an Irish surname that is also used in some countries as a gender neutral given name. Shea may refer to: People Surname A–H * Brek Shea (born 1990), American soccer player * Charles W. Shea (1921–1994), United States Army officer * Cornelius Shea (1872–1929), American labor leader and crime boss * Danny Shea (footballer) (1887–1960), English footballer * Dave Shea (broadcaster) (born ''c.'' 1950), in American hockey * Eric Shea (born 1960), American actor * Francis Shea (other) * Gilbert Shea (born 1928), American amateur tennis player * George Beverly Shea (1909–2013), Canadian-American singer-songwriter * Gerald Shea (other) * Gwyn Shea (born 1937), American politician in Texas * H. James Shea, Jr. (c. 1940-1970), American politician J * Jack Shea (speed skater) (1910–2002), American speed skater * Jack Shea (footballer) (1927–1983), Australian rules footballer * Jack Shea (director) (1928–2013), American film/TV director * Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave rock band The Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music. As a solo musician and a member of The Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most-played song in radio history. In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) Lyle Lovett Pageat Allmusic – Lovett's Genre and Styles. Retrieved February 2, 2007 is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Active since 1980, he has recorded 13 albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. His most recent album is ''12th of June'', released in 2022. Early life Lovett was born in Houston, Texas, when his family lived in the nearby community of Klein. He is the son of William Pearce and Bernell Louise (née Klein) Lovett, a marketing executive and training specialist, respectively. He was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Lovett attended Texas A&M University, where he received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both German and Journalism in 1980. In the early 1980s, Lovett oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Nash
Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours List for services to music and to charity. Nash holds four honorary doctorates, including one from New York Institute of Technology, one in Music from the University of Salford in 2011 and his latest Doctorate in Fine Arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Early life Graham William Nash was born on 2 February 1942 in Blackpool, to where his mother had been evacuated from her hometown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty Griffin
Patricia Jean Griffin (born March 16, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.Griffin, Patrici She is a vocalist and plays guitar and piano. She is known for her stripped-down songwriting style in the folk music genre. Her songs have been covered by numerous musicians, including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, Kelly Clarkson, Rory Block, Dave Hause, Sugarland, Bette Midler and The Chicks. In 2007, Griffin received the Artist of the Year award from the Americana Music Association, and her album ''Children Running Through'' won the award for Best Album. In 2011, Griffin's album ''Downtown Church'' won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album and her 2019 self-titled album won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. Biography Griffin is from Old Town, Maine, United States, next to the Penobscot Native American reservation. The youngest child in her family, with six older siblings, she bought a guitar for $50 at age 16. She sang and played but had no inclination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, MA
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th-List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 2020 U.S. Census, as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamstown, MA
Williamstown is a town in the northern part of Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States. It shares a border with Vermont to the north and New York to the west. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,513 at the 2020 census. A college town, it is home to Williams College, the Clark Art Institute and the Tony-awarded Williamstown Theatre Festival. History Originally called West Hoosac, the area was first settled in 1749. Prior to this time its position along the Mohawk Trail made it ideal Mohican hunting grounds. Its strategic location bordering Dutch colonies in New York led to its settlement, because it was needed as a buffer to stop the Dutch from encroaching on Massachusetts. Fort West Hoosac, the westernmost blockhouse and stockade in Massachusetts, was built in 1756. The town was incorporated in 1765 as Williamstown according to the will of Col. Ephraim Williams, who was killed in the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium (also known as Grand Ole Opry House and Union Gospel Tabernacle) is a 2,362-seat live-performance venue located at 116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is best known as the home of the ''Grand Ole Opry'' from 1943 to 1974. It is owned and operated by Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. Ryman Auditorium was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was later designated as a National Historic Landmark on June 25, 2001, for its pivotal role in the popularization of country music. and History Union Gospel Tabernacle The auditorium opened as the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892. Its construction was spearheaded by Thomas Ryman (1843–1904), a Nashville businessman who owned several saloons and a fleet of riverboats. Ryman conceived the idea of the auditorium as a tabernacle for the influential revivalist Samuel Porter Jones. He had attended one of Jones' 1885 tent revivals with the intent to heckle, but was instea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
