Event

Parsonsfield (formerly Poor Old Shine)

From their handpainted cereal box cd cases to their thoughtful arrangements, Parsonsfield (formerly Poor Old Shine), a Roots/Americana band from Storrs, CT, is about honesty and hand crafted creativity. It's foot stomping, mind racing, dirty, down home Americana. They travel with an assortment of instruments including guitars, banjos, pump organ, mandolin, string bass, musical saw, washboard, and a yard-sale-scrap-metal drum set. It's old songs with a new feel, banjos with paint peeled, shoes with holes and treadless soles, and music that is real.

The music is rooted in the folk and Appalachian mountain music tradition and fits in well at bluegrass festivals and sticky rock clubs alike. They have been compared favorably to The Band, John Prine, and Johnny Cash. Each set mixes the band's original songwriting with traditional folk ballads, prison work songs, and front porch style jamming.

Parsonsfield features Chris Freeman (banjo), Max Shakun (guitar, pump organ), Antonio Alcorn (Mandolin), Harrison Goodale (Bass), and Brian Conlon (washboard and aux. percussion).

"I don't care if you are intimidated by the words banjo, bluegrass, or gospel, I'd dare anyone to go to a Poor Old Shine show and not feel a compulsion towards dancing, stomping their feet or hollering out loud." Greg Quinion of Infinity Hall