Americana groups Lac La Belle & Orpheum Bell live at the Trinity House Theatre, Friday, March 9th 2012
Lac La Belle & Orpheum Bell
Friday, March 9, 2012
Trinity House Theatre
33840 West Six Mile
Livonia, MI 48152
734-464-6302
www.trinityhouse.org
Doors at 7:30p Show starts at 8pm
www.laclabellemusic.com
www.orpheumbell.com
Detroit Americana duo Lac La Belle featuring Jennie Knaggs and Nick Schillace will be performing with Ann Arbor's Orpheum Bell.
Both groups bring a unique and expansive approach to traditional American folk and roots music while blending in their own set of unique influences.
LAC LA BELLE
Jennie Knaggs and Nick Schillace make up the Americana duo Lac La Belle, of Detroit, Michigan. Their sound juxtaposes the early decades of recorded rural American music with decaying Rustbelt aesthetic. A tradition is re-imagined- or maybe just resumed- in the 'future-rustic' swirl of accordion, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, resonator guitar, and harmonizing vocals.
Lac La Belle has been touring the USA since 2009, with six tours of the mid-west, south and east, and just completed their first European tour this past November. Their soon to be released second album, "Bring on the Light" boasts 12 original works and one traditional arrangement, performed with a variety of instruments from accordion to banjitar. Each song presents a melodic tale, be it an intimate anecdote or stories on their hometown Detroit, "Bring on the Light" captures the drifting spirit of early America.
In the course of travel and advocacy work in Southern Appalachia, Jennie Knaggs mined folk music first hand from musicians of the region. She is the 2000 Hollerin' Champion of Wise Co., Virginia and Letcher Co., Kentucky, and she gracefully applies her vocal techniques in the duo's original works with her soaring and yodeling vocals. Knaggs has toured Europe in various vocal ensembles, and recently performed as an artist in residence in Labro, Italy. In 2010 she was a principal vocalist in Matthew Barney's upcoming film, "Khu."
Nick Schillace is recognized as a solo instrumentalist who has contributed to the American Primitive guitar canon with his releases Box Canyon (2005) and Landscape and People (2008.) Raised by folk and blues enthusiasts, he acquired early training at Augusta Heritage in Elkins, West Virginia. Schillace has toured and performed with other fingerpicking greats, including Bert Jansch, Peter Lang, Jack Rose, Keenan Lawler, Eric Carbonara and Glenn Jones, and is considered an authority on early 20th century American fingerpicking guitar styles.
ORPHEUM BELL
Equipped with an orchestral ensemble of banjo, accordion, trumpet, xylophone, shepherd harp, musical saw, pedal steel, a suitcase pump organ, cittern, guitar and dobro, double bass, foot percussion, various ukuleles and mechanical horned violins, Orpheum Bell performs an original "Country & Eastern" songbook of lullabies, stomps, dirt-road ballads, and gypsy suites and waltzes.
Relying on old, acoustic instruments, the band's sound moves from chiseled, plaintive song stories to articulate, richly-played instrumentals. The members come at the music from different angles - a classically trained harpsichordist, a rural folk polymath, a church choir girl, one from Holland, another from Ukraine.
"Ah, yes, well played. Can't forget that. These folks are excellent musicians, skilled, and soulful. And throughout the album they work as an ensemble so well it seems they were meant to do this together."
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http://www.laclabellemusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/laclabelle
http://www.orionmusicstudio.com/
LAC LA BELLE
Jennie Knaggs and Nick Schillace make up the Americana duo Lac La Belle, of Detroit, Michigan. Their sound juxtaposes the early decades of recorded rural American music with decaying Rustbelt aesthetic. A tradition is re-imagined- or maybe just resumed- in the 'future-rustic' swirl of accordion, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, resonator guitar, and harmonizing vocals.
Lac La Belle has been touring the USA since 2009, with six tours of the mid-west, south and east, and just completed their first European tour this past November. Their soon to be released second album, "Bring on the Light" boasts 12 original works and one traditional arrangement, performed with a variety of instruments from accordion to banjitar. Each song presents a melodic tale, be it an intimate anecdote or stories on their hometown Detroit, "Bring on the Light" captures the drifting spirit of early America.
In the course of travel and advocacy work in Southern Appalachia, Jennie Knaggs mined folk music first hand from musicians of the region. She is the 2000 Hollerin' Champion of Wise Co., Virginia and Letcher Co., Kentucky, and she gracefully applies her vocal techniques in the duo's original works with her soaring and yodeling vocals. Knaggs has toured Europe in various vocal ensembles, and recently performed as an artist in residence in Labro, Italy. In 2010 she was a principal vocalist in Matthew Barney's upcoming film, "Khu."
Nick Schillace is recognized as a solo instrumentalist who has contributed to the American Primitive guitar canon with his releases Box Canyon (2005) and Landscape and People (2008.) Raised by folk and blues enthusiasts, he acquired early training at Augusta Heritage in Elkins, West Virginia. Schillace has toured and performed with other fingerpicking greats, including Bert Jansch, Peter Lang, Jack Rose, Keenan Lawler, Eric Carbonara and Glenn Jones, and is considered an authority on early 20th century American fingerpicking guitar styles.
ORPHEUM BELL
Equipped with an orchestral ensemble of banjo, accordion, trumpet, xylophone, shepherd harp, musical saw, pedal steel, a suitcase pump organ, cittern, guitar and dobro, double bass, foot percussion, various ukuleles and mechanical horned violins, Orpheum Bell performs an original "Country & Eastern" songbook of lullabies, stomps, dirt-road ballads, and gypsy suites and waltzes.
Relying on old, acoustic instruments, the band's sound moves from chiseled, plaintive song stories to articulate, richly-played instrumentals. The members come at the music from different angles - a classically trained harpsichordist, a rural folk polymath, a church choir girl, one from Holland, another from Ukraine.
"Ah, yes, well played. Can't forget that. These folks are excellent musicians, skilled, and soulful. And throughout the album they work as an ensemble so well it seems they were meant to do this together."
--
http://www.laclabellemusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/laclabelle
http://www.orionmusicstudio.com/