They initially contacted me about the show but that is only a few days before I leave for tour so I'm gonna be running around like a chicken with my head cut off. if anyone can help them they are awesome and fun people!<br>
<br>Maybe someone with contacts at the yerb or bainbridge house could forward them there? idk. wish i could help but i really cant.<br><br>alison self<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:59 AM, The Flying Brick Library <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:TheFlyingBrick@riseup.net" target="_blank">TheFlyingBrick@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>Hey y'all, I don't think I have the energy to book this, but it sounds<br>
really awesome, and I think its about time we had an acoustic show again<br>
anyway. Is there anyway that would be available to bottomline finding some<br>
local acts to play, and promoting this? Hit me up if you can, thanks!<br>
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- Nathan<br>
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Subject: Booking help for Thorn & Shout (members of Squinch Owl) on<br>
October 16th?<br>
From: "Birthquake Records" <<a href="mailto:birthquakerecords@gmail.com">birthquakerecords@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, September 7, 2012 7:01 pm<br>
To: <a href="mailto:theflyingbrick@riseup.net">theflyingbrick@riseup.net</a><br>
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*Hey there! My name’s Maxwell - I've met you folks a few times in my<br>
travels - I played there with Stefan Fink and Rye 'n Clover and with Wood<br>
Spider in the last year! I love your space so much, and right now, I’m<br>
helping to book a tour for two of my best friends in the world, Thorn &<br>
Shout from Maine, and we were hoping you folks over at the Flying Brick<br>
could help out!<br>
<br>
Thorn & Shout is a two piece from Maine, who play original chamber folk and<br>
Americana. The duo is composed of Sofia Albam (formerly of Squinch<br>
Owl<<a href="http://squinchowl.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://squinchowl.bandcamp.com/</a>>and Sons<br>
of an Illustrious Father <<a href="http://sonsofanillustriousfather.com/" target="_blank">http://sonsofanillustriousfather.com/</a>>) and<br>
Leonidas Link (of Thy Courage Quail <<a href="http://couragequail.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://couragequail.bandcamp.com/</a>>).<br>
After going into hiding in the woods somewhere for the last year, they’ve<br>
joined together and are writing music that is far more intentional and<br>
mature than their previous projects. Between the two of them, they play<br>
resonator guitar, five string banjo, viola, foot-powered shruti box,<br>
harmonica, and percussion. They both sing lead and harmony, and might<br>
actually have the best singing voices I’ve ever heard (not exaggerating).<br>
You might like them if you like Brown Bird, Hurray for the Riff Raff,<br>
Black Prairie, Ralph Stanley, medieval folk music, taxidermy,<br>
cryptozoology...*<br>
<br>
*We’re working on mixing and mastering a full-length album, but right now,<br>
all they have is a rough demo:<br>
<a href="http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com</a><br>
And here's a couple of videos from one of their first shows:<br>
<a href="http://youtu.be/aEl3HBxlujg" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/aEl3HBxlujg</a><br>
<a href="http://youtu.be/uPv7tLk_H9U*" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/uPv7tLk_H9U*</a><br>
*<br>
*<br>
*I know the two of them will love your space - while they've made an<br>
intentional choice to not be overtly political in their lyrical content,<br>
they're both anarchists and primitivists so you guys'll probably get along.<br>
** <<a href="http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://thornandshout.bandcamp.com/</a>><br>
We’re looking for a show in the Richmond area on Tuesday, October 16th We<br>
really hope you can help us out, but if you can’t, we understand - however<br>
if you can help out with names and/or contact info of people who might be<br>
able to, we’d really appreciate it! I haven't had too much experience with<br>
shows in RVA outside of your space to tell the truth haha.<br>
<br>
Anyhow, thanks much - let me know what ya think!<br>
<br>
Love,<br>
-Maxwell, Sofia & Link*<br>
<br>
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*This album is the product of the frontman and songs of New Orleans’ own<br>
Sweet Street Symphony coming together with New York’s Wood Spider. NOLA<br>
street jazz mixed with progressive folk punk? Banjo! Drums! Accordion! Saw!<br>
Cello! Stand-up bass! A chorus of kazoos!*<br>
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Wood Spider’s latest, this time performing with six members across a slew<br>
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