Philville Records Presents Erik Koskinen & Martha Scanlan!
We're thrilled to have these two amazing artists come through as part of the series--this is going to be a night of music you won't want to miss--tickets go on sale MARCH 15TH and will be available for purchase at Morgan Music in Eau Claire and online starting at 12:00 p.m. on March 15th.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philville-records-presents-erik-koskinen-m…
Advance tickets will be $15, tickets at the door will be $18.
The highly talented Eau Claire based folk singer & songwriter, Tim Case, will be kicking off the show! Here's a link to Tim's Website: https://greatbigmoon.com/
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7:00 p.m.
Erik Koskinen's new record, Down Street/Love Avenue debuts on April 5th, 2024--same day as this show!
Martha Scanlan's new album, Save it for Later, debuts on March 1st, 2024, so both of these incredible artists will have brand new music available at the show. Be sure to pick up a record!
More on the Artists:
Erik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own while heavily influenced by American roots music. The rhythmic integrity and musical tone is as important as the lyrical content and the artistic intent. Koskinen has reverently entered the anthology of uniquely crafted wry songs with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder while speaking as plainly as your neighbor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune calls Koskinen the real deal and The best country songwriter in Minnesota
GLIDE MAGAZINE:
In the vein of his close friend, Jeffrey Foucault, Koskinen's songs are stripped-down, breathe the Midwestern air, paint character portraits, and have a deceptively haunting quality.
AMERICAN ROOTS UK:
...melodies that stay with the listener long after the last notes of the final track have died away.
Erik is very much his own man stylistically. Sub-genres are no use at all in describing Erik's music, and perhaps a new genre is more appropriate.
MINNPOST:
one of anti-country music's up-and-coming stars.
MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE:
as dazzling a guitarist as he is an evocative storytelling songwriter.
the real deal
the best country songwriter in Minnesota.
Martha Scanlan:
In the opening moments of Martha Scanlan's fourth recording, The River And The Light, there is this pause right before the music kicks in; it occurs like the deep breath in right before a sigh, or the brush of sand against the bottom of a boat being gently pushed into the current.
What follows is a journey, and in this day and age of Spotify and playlists it is rare to find a recording coImpelling enough to be so taken into such a journey. There is a sense of aliveness and wonder throughout each song and throughout the album, this sense of anticipation of what awaits around the next bend.
The boat metaphor is interesting, because for both Jon and I these songs have occurred like rivers, like these currents winding in and out and around each other.
Jon is Portland based guitar player, producer and longtime musical collaborator Jon Neufeld.
The current one is swept into on the opening track Brother Was Dying is pulsing with rich electric guitar tones, somehow lush and spare all at once, the tension of so many opposites- hope and despair, intimacy and inclusion, birth and death, weaving seamlessly in and out of each other in one winding pulsing groove.
It was the first take of a song Martha had just finished writing moments before.
I think it was the only take, she laughs.
This is not unusual for them.
*****
Anyone familiar with Martha Scanlan and Jon Neufeld's unique alchemy on stage will not be surprised by the sense of being taken into the moment- their shows are in and of themselves a journey of improvisation; the way Jon Neufeld's brilliant innovative guitar playing weaves effortlessly around Martha's timeless songwriting is simply magical.
They met playing together at Portland's Indie-Roots festival Pickathon in 2010, shortly before recording Tongue River Stories, a beautifully stark album of field recordings captured on film at the 120 year old family ranch where Martha was living and working in a remote corner of south east Montana (The Meadow on YouTube is a stunning introduction).
I wanted to record songs in the places where they were written; there is such a beautiful intimacy with the landscape in ranch work and in the place itself, stories inside of stories inside of stories...
This exploration of place and belonging has been a long running theme, but really came into focus while being immersed in old time music in East Tennessee.
The interwoven relationship between music and landscape, people and stories really impacted me, just this profound sense of belonging. I started writing songs there, songs about my own landscapes back home in Montana. I missed them.
After touring with the innovative old time string band Reeltime Travelers, those songs evolved into her debut solo album The West Was Burning. Recorded at Levon Helm's barn in Woodstock, New York with Dirk Powell and Levon and Amy Helm, it was heralded as an instant classic, one of those rare albums that defies genre and generation.
Touring the country and Europe solo, with North Carolina's Stuart Brothers and in other various configurations eventually led to the collaboration with Jon Neufeld.
After Tongue River Stories came The Shape Of Things Gone Missing, The Shape Of Things To Come, recorded in Portland with members of Black Prairie and The Decemberists. A featured album by World Café's David Dye and No Depression's Amos Perrine, the biggest criticism was that it was hard to find. Sometimes she's hard to find, preferring to spend more time off the grid than on it.
I'm kind of wired for quiet places, she admits.
Tim Case:
Tim Case is a singer-songwriter from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Blending folk, country, and Americana influences, his original songs combine inventive acoustic guitar compositions with lyrics that explore heavy topics with a light touch. He performs frequently around the Chippewa Valley, both solo and as a duo with Rock Creek Song Dogs banjo player Jake Soha.
https://greatbigmoon.com/
Add new comment