About This Event
A cherished, deep, musical evening in the company of Tim Eriksen and Laurel Premo
Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair-raising vocals with inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and bajo sexto - a twelve string Mexican acoustic bass - creating a distinctive hardcore Americana sound.
“One of the best singers in music”
-T Bone Burnett
"otherworldly"
-Barbara Kingsolver
“Among the world’s finest folk practitioners”
-Toronto Star
“The best ballad singer of his generation”
-BBC Radio
Laurel Premo is known for her rhythmically deep and rapt delivery of roots music, voiced on finger-style electric guitar, lap steel, fiddle, and voice. The glowing heartiness and rich grit of her sound reveal a love of and complete submersion in heavy archaic roots—from the crossover of old-time and blues American traditions to darker Nordic sounds. She is a Michigan-based artist who has been writing, arranging, and touring since 2009 with vocal and instrumental roots acts, and is internationally known from her duo Red Tail Ring. Her 2021 solo release, ‘Golden Loam’, continues Laurel’s sonic raising of old wild landscape, with ruminant power, a masterful use of space, and dynamic waves of warm, gritty sustain.
Laurel Premo has spent her life immersed in American and Nordic folk traditions. Now both new compositions and arrangements of older music are held in a living relationship with tradition, musically revealing a bloom of underlying harmonic drones, minimalist repetition, and rich polyrhythm.
“Subtle but dazzling and rich in texture. Watching a live performance is pure hypnosis.”
– MTV
Doors open at 7 - Music at 7:30 - $20 advance tickets - $25 at the door
This will be a fully seated, listening room style show
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Artist-centered music venue & event space on floor 2 of Commongrounds Cooperative. 414 E 8th Street, Traverse City, MI. A small venue doing big things.
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