Wildflower is the songwriting project of Adrian O’Barr, based in Portland, Maine. Writing primarily about place and the power of nature, the music seeks to explore a distinctive vision of “Atlantic” music and tell stories of a changing coastline. Combining influences as far ranging as 1970’s British Isles folk music, Laurel Canyon, and ambient, Wildflower’s third album, “Green World” arrives 3/1/2024 via their own label Dog’s Breath Records. It features contributions from friends and collaborators Andrew Weaver (Mail the Horse, Widowspeak), Joseph Shabason (Destroyer), Hamilton Belk (Cut Worms), MorganEve Swain (Huntress and the Holder of Hands), Matthew Maiello, Jason Eckerson, and Kevin Sullivan.
Wildflower has toured both locally and nationally and played with many of their heroes, including Little Wings, Michael Nau, Kacey Johansing, and Steve Gunn, among others. Their previous album, “The Ocean Rose” was released by Los Angeles label Night Bloom Records. Wildflower has been featured in Aquarium Drunkard, New Commute, Various Small Flames, Uncut Magazine, and For the Rabbits. Their new album was made in part with funding from the American Rescue Plan Maine Projects Grants, a sub-granting program administered by SPACE Gallery for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Fiddler Mike Gangloff plays free Appalachian music that includes melodic composition, improvisation and traditional tunes learned from older players around his home in Southwest Virginia. A founder of longtime improv drone unit Pelt and old-time rowdies Black Twig Pickers, Mike often performs solo on hardanger-style and octave fiddles. His most recent solo album is "Evening Measures," with a follow-up presently in the works. A new collaborative album with improv duo Elkhorn, "Shackamaxon Concert," has just been released by VHF Records, and another collaboration, with UK guitarist C Joynes, is due out later this year.
"Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape in which he was raised. Personal instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the falls and black pearls from the river. The exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the Last Night on the Dead River before the great flood.
"Although only 23 years old, Liam’s become a leading force in a much needed third wave revival of American Primitive music. Despite his age, Liam’s the very definition of 'an old soul' and while he draws on a wide variety of contemporary influences, he also channels a comprehensive history of the blues as well as a deeper energy that informs both his playing and songwriting." -- Rob Vaughn, Portland, Oregon – July 2023
"Caitlin Wilder is a singer-songwriter and artist from New Hampshire, who's folk inspired songs are a profound reflection on life, inviting listeners into an experience of introspection and connection. She is at work on her debut album, which she plans to release later in 2024."
DOORS ARE AT 7PM AND MUSIC WILL BEGIN AT 730. Seating is first come first served and this show is all ages.