The Lone Bellow takes the Community Concert Hall stage Oct. 1
Special guest Anderson East opens the show at 7:30 p.m.
Durango, CO – Brooklyn-based, indie folk trio The Lone Bellow will perform at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. Special guest Anderson East will open the show at 7:30 p.m. The dance floor will be open.
The Lone Bellow is said to mix folk sincerity, gospel fervor and heavy metal thunder. The heart of the band is, however, harmony: three voices united in a lone bellow.
“The Lone Bellow isn’t the first modern band to traffic in grandiose folk-rock uplift, but it’s already among the best,” noted NPR.
The trio’s lead singer and principal songwriter Zach Williams can point almost exactly to when The Lone Bellow serendipitously willed itself into being: around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010 at Dizzy’s Diner in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Williams’ old friend, guitarist Brian Elmquist, was working a shift, and Williams had asked fellow singer Kanene Pipkin to join them. That fateful morning they christened The Lone Bellow.
Long before combining their voices, the three were singing on their own. Elmquist had been writing and recording as a solo artist for more than a decade, with three albums under his own name. Pipkin and her husband Jason had lived in Beijing, China, hosting open mic nights, playing at local clubs and teaching music lessons. Williams began writing songs in the wake of a family tragedy: After his wife was thrown from a horse, he spent days in the hospital at her bedside, bracing for the worst news. The journal he kept during this period would eventually become his first batch of songs as a solo artist. Happily, his wife made a full recovery.
After hitting those first harmonies in the diner, the musicians decided to abandon all other pursuits. Soon the trio was playing throughout the city, although they considered Rockwood Music Hall on the Lower East Side to be their home. Their self-titled debut, released in January 2013, established The Lone Bellow as one of the boldest new acts in the Americana movement.
Touring currently in support of the band’s second album, Then Came the Morning (2015), Williams, Elmquist, and Pipkin testify to life’s great struggles and joys, heralding the morning that dispels the dark night.
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, “With its fire, inventive arrangements and lack of artifice, The Lone Bellow’s Then Came the Morning challenges the slick design of contemporary country and the occasional complacency of Americana. Then Came the Morning finds the Lone Bellow enriching its approach to performance without sacrificing its strengths. The result is the year’s first great album.”
View The Lone Bellow performing the new album’s title track, “Then Came the Morning” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CKS7qWayDk.
Combining alternative rock and timeless Americana influence with an unforgettable voice, special guest Anderson East is a dynamic artist who fuses modern sound with the rich undertones of his southern roots. Described as taking the best qualities from Otis Redding, Ray LaMontagne, Ryan Adams and John Mayer, East’s voice is said to be a blend of unique inflection and delivery resulting in a sound of its own. East offers the listener something new to the ear yet familiar to the spirit.
View performance videos of Anderson East at https://www.youtube.com/user/andersoneast.
Tickets for The Lone Bellow with special guest Anderson East ($30/$24) are available on-line at www.durangoconcerts.com, or call 970.247.7657, or visit the Ticket Office inside the Durango Welcome Center at 8th St. and Main Ave., Downtown Durango. Ticket Office hours are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Community Concert Hall is a not-for-profit, multi-use performance venue located on the campus of Fort Lewis College. Its ability to bring a diverse spectrum of shows to Southwest Colorado is made possible through a partnership with the college, a state-supported, independent institution of higher education, and through financial and in-kind contributions from generous members of the community.
