Bendigo Fletcher with Free Range

All Ages
Friday, April 05
Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$18
General admission standing room only (limited seating is available first come, first served)

$18 in advance. $20 day of show.
This is an All Ages event.
Show starts at 8pm.

Limited accessible seating available upon request at the door.  Please arrive early if you require assistance and we will attempt to accommodate you as best as we can.

 
The full-length debut from Bendigo Fletcher, Fits of Laughter (due out August 13th) is a collection of moments both enchanted and mundane, sorrowful and ecstatic: basking in the beauty of a glorious lightning storm, waking with a strand of your beloved’s hair happily caught in your mouth, drinking malt liquor while bingeing “The X-Files” on a lonesome Saturday night. As lead songwriter for the Louisville, KY-based band, frontman Ryan Anderson crafts the patchwork poetry of his lyrics by serenely observing the world around him, often while working his grocery-store day job or walking aimlessly in nature (a practice partly borrowed from the late poet Mary Oliver). When matched with Bendigo Fletcher’s gorgeously jangly collision of country and folk-rock and dreamy psychedelia, the result is a batch of story-songs graced with so much raw humanity, wildly offbeat humor, and a transcendent sense of wonder.
To build something new, you have to let the old things go. That spirit of reinvention is essential to Chicago indie-folk project Free Range, the brainchild of Sofia Jensen (guitar, they/them) that came together at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart. Live and in the studio, Sofia is joined by collaborator and producer Jack Henry (drums, he/him), who helped Jensen fill out the skeletons of songs they composed in the solitude of quarantine. Bailey Minzenberger (bass, they/them) sat in with Jack and Sofia for a series of late-night sessions during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and before long, the three musicians had re-recorded an entire album’s worth of material. Free Range is a departure from Sofia’s previous work as a rock ‘n’ roll bandleader; they “wanted to turn the electric down, and the acoustic up” for this new project.
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