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Genre: Folk

HAPPY LANDING – The Up All Night Tour! w/ Plain Faraday

Larimer Lounge Presents HAPPY LANDING – The Up All Night Tour! with Plain Faraday on Saturday, August 12th.HAPPY LANDING is an American folk rock band formed in Oxford, Mississippi in 2020 by Matty Hendley (lead vocals, guitar), Keegan Christensen (vocals, keys), Jacob Christensen (drums), Andrew Gardner (fiddle, vocals), and WIlson Moyer (bass/guitar, vocals).The group pioneers a new wave of indie folk music, captivating audiences around the country with their energetic live shows and fresh sound, blended from the roots of southern rock, punk and folk.Following a successful year of touring with notable bands like The Head and The Heart and The 502’s, the band hits the road again in 2023 with the release of their third studio EP.-16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Bonnie Stewart w/ Ellsworth + Alana Mars

Larimer Lounge Presents Bonnie Stewart with Ellsworth and Alana Mars on Sunday, June 25th.  Magnolia, the debut EP from Bonnie Stewart, introduces a lyric-driven singer/songwriter whose music bridges the gap between Americana’s past and present. It’s an ethereal sound rooted in the influence of her parents’ timeless record collection — including Emmylou Harris, Guy Clark, and other classic craftsmen — with arrangements whose lush, atmospheric sweep nods to the modern day. Gluing that mix together are Stewart’s aching vocals and sharply-written insights of life, love, and lingering memories we all carry with us.  Raised in South Carolina, Stewart moved across the state several times as a child, living in small towns and cities alike. Her environment was transient, but her love of music — from the iconic folksingers of her parents’ generation to the rock artists her older brothers preferred — remained constant. That connection with music would soon become more than a hobby; it became a way to make sense of the changing world around her.  “I started writing songs when I was 9, the same year my parents got divorced,” she remembers. “You can imagine why those two things went together.” That same year, she collected her birthday money and bought a cheap electric guitar at a pawn shop, using the instrument to funnel her frustration into songs about leaving her childhood home and accepting her new reality. As she became a teenager, Stewart continued writing songs, steadily laying the foundation for the career that would eventually take her to Nashville.  Moving to Music City halfway through college, Stewart sharpened her songwriting skills by playing shows around town and taking courses at Belmont University. She also felt an affinity for locals like Kacey Musgraves, whose music blurred the lines between gauzy Americana, country, and modern pop. Stewart developed a unique sound that also shrunk the distance between genres, creating homemade demos on her own and eventually partnering with local producer/writer Oscar Charles to create Magnolia.  Magnolia’s six tracks were all written by Stewart, showcasing a young writer who nods to her musical roots while still moving forward. Coming from a long line of powerful women, she proudly wears her grandmother’s 1950s tea length skirt on Magnolia’s cover, repurposing an item from her past to make a statement about her empowered present. She fills the EP with gorgeous melodies and hard truths, too, singing about a complex relationship with her father on “Original Muse” before sketching an empathetic character study with “Sarah,” whose titular heroine grapples with an unplanned pregnancy. Throughout it all, her voice sits atop layered, echoing arrangements whose pulsing synth bass and reverb-washed soundscapes accentuate the craft of her writing. Often, the two go hand in hand; “Sarah” contains the twinkling sounds of a toy piano that producer Charles received as a baby, serving both as a melodic instrument and clever nod to the song’s subject matter. In a town built upon tradition, Bonnie Stewart has created a sound that blends the classic with the contemporary. This is atmospheric Americana at its best, laced with unexpected flourishes that pair beautifully with the songs’ melodic foundation. “When I listen to music, I always listen to the lyrics first,” she explains. “At the end of the day, if I strip back all of the production of my songs, can I sit and play the song alone, and it still means something? That’s always been my goal. We accomplished a visual world and an aesthetic with this EP, but at the end of the day, the songs stand alone.” With Magnolia, Stewart’s sound is in full bloom. -16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

National Park Radio Album Release Show w/ Carly King

Larimer Lounge Presents National Park Radio Album Release Show with Carly King on Saturday, May 27 –Emotional, gut-wrenching, but still incredibly hopeful, National Park Radio’s music reverberates important themes about life, love, and difficult choices, all while echoing the enduring beauty of the band’s deep-seated roots in the Ozark Mountains. Formed in Northwest Arkansas in 2012, National Park Radio, headed by singer/songwriter Stefan Szabo, has infused the surrounding region (and many others as well)with their unique brand of indie-folk music. Emerging from the shadows cast by giants Mumford & Sons, The Decemberists, and The Avett Brothers, NPR offers the indie folk world something a little different: An outstanding blend of incisive songwriting and organic Americana charm, alongside a heritage in genuine mountain music.Szabo (lead vocals, acoustic guitar) self-produced the band’s EP back in 2013, and National Park Radio has never looked back. Initially, the music spread like mountain wildfire throughout the region, earning the band a substantial and incredibly loyal following in their home region. After facing some of the challenges in the music industry while creating their first full-length album The Great Divide (2016), Szabo’s wife Kerrie joined the band with the release of their quick follow-up album “Old Forests” (2017), bringing beautiful harmonies and a unique chemistry that created a sense of family at the core of the band. They have spent the last few years touring and gaining fans throughout the country, building a passionate fanbase that is inspired by their songs. Their most recent release The Road Ahead (2020) is now available and demonstrates the next step in the evolution of where National Park Radio’s music is headed.-16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Charlie Hickey w/ Bodies + Paul Whitacre

Larimer Lounge Presents Charlie Hickey with Bodies and Paul Whitacre on Friday, March 24th.  Charlie Hickey’s debut album, Nervous At Night, began with a journey. Having grown up in Pasadena, in the quiet shadow of downtown LA, Hickey moved away to college at the same time that he got more serious about music, and found himself moving back and forth between his hometown and his newfound independence to play around with song ideas and demos with his friend and collaborator Marshall Vore. These two worlds reveal themselves in numerous forms across Nervous At Night, as Hickey explores life’s graceless passage between teenage years and adulthood, and all of the noise that permeates Formed of eleven new songs and released in the early Summer of 2022 via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, Nervous At Night is, of course, led by Hickey’s remarkable voice, a voice that, like the best pop artists, holds the brave balance of singing fearlessly about your fears.  Across the album, he lays out those fears, frustrations, and faith in friendships in richly detailed ways. While Hickey calls the album a pop record, he admits that sonically it moves in many directions, an amalgamation of his love for folk singers of yesteryear and more contemporary peers, from Taylor Swift and The 1975, to Elliott Smith, to Conor Oberst. Like those heroes, Hickey shares a clarity in his songs that is specific in its songwriting but still inviting, open and generous. Nowhere is that truer than on title track “Nervous at Night”, a pop anthem that instantly joins the canon of the great Unrequited Love Songs, with a hook that dances over the song’s anxieties, as Hickey sings how he “can’t keep throwing rocks up at your window.” Nervous at Night shifts between quiet, heavy-hearted ballads and gleaming, hook-laden tracks. Album opener “Dandelion” is a winding, confessional monologue, built on a folk foundation but moving effortlessly into a shimmering pop dream.  “Month of September” – which features a guest turn from Dawes’ drummer Griffin Goldsmith –  feels like the capturing of a moment (“In a few weeks we’re going back to the studio to finish the record,” Hickey sings,) but then subtly shifts to a reflection of the kind of anticipation that is so tightly bound to childhood; like counting down to the days to Christmas, like waiting in line for a rollercoaster. “Gold Line” arrives disguised as a windows-down singalong, and it’s well built for that, but hidden underneath is a deeper layer, as Hickey sings about feelings bigger than he can control or resist. Nervous At Night comes alive in its juxtapositions, chronicling the constant push and pull of life, both its stagnancy and motion in refreshing and honest ways. Chiefly though, this is an album about connection, how even through those struggles we rely on the people around us to keep moving forwards. “I’d like to write songs that are for everyone, that let people into my inner world while also hopefully making people feel less alone on their own. I hope that these songs can be there for somebody the way my favorite songs have been for me.” -16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Beeler w/ Number 9! + Cory Simmons

Larimer Lounge Presents Beeler with Number 9! and Cory Simmons on Sunday, December 18th. -16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

The Dead Tongues w/ Kat Lane

Larimer Lounge Presents The Dead Tongues with Kat Lane on Saturday, October 29 —  When Ryan Gustafson finished recording Transmigration Blues, his fourth and bestalbum under the nameThe Dead Tongues, in the summer of 2019, he slumped into a month-long haze of depression. For two decades, Gustafson—a preternaturally sensitive soul, interested in the mystic but grounded by his love of quiet woods and open deserts—had made many albums with various bands and under assorted guises. This one however,had left him wounded, momentarily empty. He couldn’t write songs, couldn’t concentrate, couldn’t summon any enthusiasm for tapping into his emotions. Even the shows he played meant going through the motions. “The deeper wells of my being had run dry,” he remembers of how he felt when he returned to his mountain cabin, deep in a North Carolina holler. “There was just this big, open space.” In the years since recording his 2018 breakthrough, Unsung Passage, Gustafson had built words and songs of intense emotional reckoning. He had wrestled with relationships that failed spectacularly. He had contemplated growing up in and then apart from a devoted religious household. He had surveyed the damage of living hard in his 20s, partying in the back of vans as he prowled the interstates of the United States, reckless and free. Before any of the songs detailing these reckonings emerged, Gustafson had the title Transmigration Blues—a reference to the Buddhist concept of a dead body’s soul migrating into another host. For Gustafson, though, it also represents the “little deaths” we all experience as we grow and evolve, the lessons and fables (however indirect) we take with us as we molt and slip from an old skin into our next one. This baggage was daunting, Gustafson admits, but he’s better for having sorted through it, having pulled it from his body at last. “It took a while to come back from,” he says. “But I would rather walk out of the studio feeling that way instead of it just being another day at the office.” Those thoughts—powerful personal reflections on his place in the world, tardy attempts to find meaning in the moments of life he thought he’d left behind—are the core of Transmigration Blues, an album that transmogrifies heavy emotional burdens into some of the most disarming folk-rock you’ll ever hear. From the graceful string-swept recollections of “Deep Water, Strange Wind” to the radiant calls and responses of “Bama Boys Circa 2005,” Gustafson drags past darkness into present light. Transmigration Blues gets to the idiosyncratic heart and unorthodox past of Gustafson, who lives the contemplative rural life about which many of his peers simply sing. -16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian