<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7178644372615963" style="font-weight:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hey there! My name’s Maxwell - I've met you folks a few times in my travels - I played there with Stefan Fink and Rye 'n Clover and with Wood Spider in the last year! I love your space so much, and right now, I’m helping to book a tour for two of my best friends in the world, Thorn & Shout from Maine, and we were hoping you folks over at the Flying Brick could help out! </span><br>
<font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thorn & Shout is a two piece from Maine, who play original chamber folk and Americana. The duo is composed of Sofia Albam (formerly of </span><a href="http://squinchowl.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Squinch Owl</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="http://sonsofanillustriousfather.com/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sons of an Illustrious Father</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Leonidas Link (of </span><a href="http://couragequail.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thy Courage Quail</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). After going into hiding in the woods somewhere for the last year, they’ve joined together and are writing music that is far more intentional and mature than their previous projects. </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Between the two of them, they play resonator guitar, five string banjo, viola, foot-powered shruti box, harmonica, and percussion. They both sing lead and harmony, and might actually have the best singing voices I’ve ever heard (not exaggerating). You might like them if you like Brown Bird, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Black Prairie, Ralph Stanley, medieval folk music, taxidermy, cryptozoology...</span></font></b><div>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re working on mixing and mastering a full-length album, but right now, all they have is a rough demo: </span><br>
<a href="http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com</span></a><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And here's a couple of videos from one of their first shows: </span><br>
<a href="http://youtu.be/aEl3HBxlujg"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://youtu.be/aEl3HBxlujg</span></a><br><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://youtu.be/uPv7tLk_H9U">http://youtu.be/uPv7tLk_H9U</a></span></font></b></div>
<div><b style="font-weight:normal"><font color="#1155cc" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I know the two of them will love your space - while they've made an intentional choice to not be overtly political in their lyrical content, they're both anarchists and primitivists so you guys'll probably get along. <br>
</font></span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><a href="http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com/" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re looking for a show in the Richmond area on Tuesday, October 16th We really hope you can help us out, but if you can’t, we understand - however if you can help out with names and/or contact info of people who might be able to, we’d really appreciate it! I haven't had too much experience with shows in RVA outside of your space to tell the truth haha. </span><br>
<font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anyhow, thanks much - let me know what ya think! </span><br>
<font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Love,</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-Maxwell, Sofia & Link</span></b><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="text-align:center;color:rgb(153,153,153)">
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<i><font color="#666666">This album is the product of the frontman and songs of New Orleans’ own Sweet Street Symphony coming together with New York’s Wood Spider. NOLA street jazz mixed with progressive folk punk? Banjo! Drums! Accordion! Saw! Cello! Stand-up bass! A chorus of kazoos!</font></i></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">THE ACT OF ESTIMATING AS WORTHLESS - "Amongst These Splintered Minds//Leaden Thoughts Sing Softly" BQR-010</font></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="http://theactofestimatingasworthless.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://theactofestimatingasworthless.bandcamp.com/</font></a></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Act
Of plays music that ranges from soft and cute to swells of loud and
triumphant - sort of post rock-infused indie folk. </span></i></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Two voices, two guitars, horns, strings, junk drums, stand-up bass and more! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></i></span></font></p>
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</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">WOOD SPIDER - "In the Thick of It" BQR-009</span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://woodspider.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://woodspider.bandcamp.com</a></span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Wood
Spider’s latest, this time performing with six members across a slew of
instruments. The recordings are gritty and distorted, the band is loud
and aggressive, the songs are dark and angsty. Somewhere between freak
folk and folk punk, with a gothic vibe. </span></font></p></div><br>
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