Event

Audrey Ryan (Album Release) with Brown Bird, South China

Mount Desert Island native and Phoenix BMP award winner (Best Folk Act, Best Female Vocalist) Audrey Ryan is a multi-instrumentalist, one-man-band act on most occasions, best known for her ability to play drums to her live guitar loops and accordion creating a full band sound from just one person onstage. However, her new record "Thick Skin" is a departure towards multi-track recording with as many as 20 instruments on some songs. The result is an orchestral sound that evokes the work of Sufjan Stevens and Bjork in its ambience and instrumentation. Providence's Brown Bird pulls from blues, outlaw country, roots rock, early American folk, Gypsy and Eastern European music to offer harmonized voices, haunting lyrics and diverse rhythm and instrumentation, often swelling into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness. Portland's favorite musical couple, South China opens.