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Drymill Road w/ The Hello Strangers
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
Doors: 7PM | Show: 8PM
Bright Box is general admission. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Arrive early to choose your favorite seat and grab a bite to eat!
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DRYMILL ROAD
Drymill Road is a 4 piece bluegrass band from Winchester, Virginia.
The band includes: Robert Mabe on Banjo, Sean Loomis on Guitar, Doug Ross on Mandolin, and David Hurt on Bass. Focusing on high energy and heartfelt original material, the band also plays traditional numbers and has some very interesting takes on classics from Led Zeppelin, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and more!
Drymill Road crafts old-timey newgrass/bluegrass-tinged goodness marked by upbeat banjo, perky mandolin and wildly harmonizing vocals! Overall, it's chipper, charming, spirited good time music that'll take your somewhere down the tranquility of a back road then the next song will sling you into the heart of a raucous party to sell out crowds. A mighty fine musical time!
The band brings a full-blown entertainment experience to the stage with some very different blends of old, new, traditional, surprising twists and turns of musicality and phrasing. The beauty of it is to not expect to hear "NewGrass" or some far-out translation of the basic form. The value is in the entertainment package. They'll transport you down a road that's 'Older than the Hills. In addition to playing music festivals and concert halls year round, Drymill Road has played the Canadian Embassy and had the honor of playing Carnegie Hall in March of 2014!
THE HELLO STRANGERS
What does Austin-influenced, rural-Pennsylvanian, indie sister-folk sound like? Verbosity aside, it sounds uniquely like The Hello Strangers, a sister duo, comprised of Larissa Chace Smith and Brechyn Chace, whose haunting harmonies and original, wittingly noir songwriting style are the backbone of their sound.
The Hello Strangers just released their first full-length, self-titled album with multi-award winning (Grammy, Emmy, Dove, Tele) IMI Records in Nashville, Tennessee. The album features 11 originals and 2 covers, including "What You Don't Know," written by, and featuring on vocals, Jim Lauderdale; and "Que Sera, Sera," an homage to their grandfather, Ronald Chace, who sang with Doris Day.
In 2012, Larissa and Brechyn won AirPlay Direct's "Win An Americana Record Deal" contest, giving them the opportunity to work with Steve Ivey of IMI, and a host of other talented industry professionals, on their 2014 album.
The Hello Strangers were born out of the Austin, Texas music scene in 2006 when the sisters wrote their first song together, entitled "Pregnant in Jail." Based on true events, it was a preamble to a string of original tunes the pair crafted in a little cottage off South Congress Avenue. Soon, however, the mountains of Pennsylvania beckoned the girls back north, and so they packed up their lives, dogs, and Larissa's husband and returned to their two-stoplight hometown.
The move has since proven to be a boon for the duo. The sisters have created a catalogue of original music with nods to American folk traditions, modern indie rock, Texas country-folk, and roots rock, all tied together with lilting harmonies that only sisters can create. Timeless imagery and fables are at the core of each song, from tales of a boggy creek bottom where a murdered man sleeps, to a Texas roadhouse with bawdy dancers and clinking beer bottles, to more poignant reflections on the loss of winter or a man gone wrong.
The sisters are supported by a dynamic and talented trio: Spencer Pheil on lead guitar, Trent Renshaw on drums, and Tom Hoy on bass.
Chuck Dauphin of Music News Nashville says, "They are just for lack of a more sophisticated term Damn Good. Take a listen to a cut like "Chances," and if you are not totally hooked by their spellbinding harmony, your hearing must not be working right. It's a sonically brilliant cut from start to finish, one that simply needs to be heard. Ditto that for the Appalachian feel of "The World Knows Far Better," where the harmony is chilling, as is the harmonica work from Brechyn. The sisters even match musical wits and talent with the incredible Jim Lauderdale on his gem "What You Don't Know," which they keep as haunting as his 1990s original."
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LocationBright Box Theater (View)
15 N Loudoun St, Suite 100
Winchester, VA 22601
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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