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HEY MARSEILLES
Wednesday, 7/28 – 6 PM
The Hey Marseilles sound is immediate, evocative, mostly acoustic, always emotive. It’s classically-trained brothers Sam and Jacob Anderson on cello and viola, their strings grand and mournful. It’s the wheeze and moan of Philip Kobernik’s accordion, simultaneously the gawkiest and most romantic of all instruments. It’s Nick Ward’s electric guitar, stretching into the distance like an open road and the Dixieland swagger of Patrick Brannon’s trumpet. It’s a songwriter’s urgent expression via vocalist Matt Bishop, expanded with huge singalong choruses, unraveled by a virtuoso band’s sinuous arrangements. It’s modern vintage, a folk-pop jam session at a vanished cabaret on the Seine, an indie rocker’s fantasy of his grandparents’ first kiss.
July 28, 2010 at 2:01 pm
[...] July 28: Hey Marseilles Free In-store Performance @ Music Millennium [...]