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From 2-5 p.m. before the show.
Workshop Information
AUGUST 7
at 7 p.m.
Winter
Sessions
winter/sessions
progressive folk, bluegrass, acoustic
winter/sessions started in 2001 as
an aesthetic movement to pass the long winter months of
Michigan. The first recordings of winter/sessions are raw,
a basic analog 4-track recorder with often only a single
microphone. Since then, the recording process has changed,
as has the setting. Their debut album memphis/sessions, was
recorded and produced independently in Memphis, Michigan in
the spring of 2007 and was released in September at the
Earthwork Harvest Gathering. The album has since been
nominated for two Jammie Awards by the Grand Rapids
independent radio station WYCE: Best Local Folk Album of
the Year and Best New Local Folk Album of the Year.
With the line up of a bluegrass
band (acoustic guitar, dobro, banjo and mandolin)
winter/sessions stay clear of a single genre. Their sound
is rooted in traditional bluegrass and folk, however
winter/sessions likes to move their
music progressively in and out of genres, away from a
stylized or prescribed category. Their end product is a
sound that is both pure and new, a sound that is midway
between tradition and innovation.
Composed of three writers and a
bilinguist, the band focuses on thought provoking lyrics as
well as great music. Music critic Drew Hampton writes:
winter/session's cerebral lyrics and eclectic sound
have demanded the attention of prominent musicians within
the Michigan folk
music scene while capturing the imagination of
festival goers statewide. Original and honest,
winter/sessions are lifting the wool
off of music lover's eyes and showing them what music
should and can be.
In
only a year of touring winter/sessions has kept busy
spreading their sound across the state. Their original
music has been played for audiences at the State Theatre in
Kalamazoo, Short’s Brewery, Founder’s Brewing
Company, Billy’s Lounge, Magdalena’s Tea House,
Crazy Wisdom Tea Room, Farmfest, and the Earthwork Harvest
Gathering, among others. The band has played with
established Michigan acts such as Creekside, Hawks and
Owls, James Dake, Glean Infusion, the Ragbirds, and many of
the Earthwork collective. They continue to improve and
evolve everyday in their music and in their lives,
spreading an unbounded positive energy that could only be
winter/sessions. They are currently touring and working on
their sophomore album, solstice/sessions.
winter/sessions :
Russ Brakefield- Banjo, mandolin, vocals
Ben Fidler- guitar, mandolin, vocals
Mark Lavengood- dobro, guitar, mandolin, vocals
Matt Sucaet- guitar, mandolin, banjo,
vocals