A Stranger Things Halloween Featuring Rachel Sumner & Hazel Royer and Noble Dust
A Stranger Things Halloween! feat. Rachel Sumner & Hazel Royer and Noble Dust
Don your snazziest leg warmers and join Noble Dust and Rachel Sumner for A Stranger Things Halloween - a night of haunting harmonies and 80s nostalgia! Costumes highly recommended.
This Halloween, Rachel Sumner & Hazel Royer recreate the high, lonesome bluegrass sounds of pioneering women Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerard. With the help of Maxfield Anderson playing the mandolin parts of David "Dawg" Grisman, this trio will transport you to the Appalachian mountains with songs about mining, early feminist anthems, lost parents, and heartbroken lovers.
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Rachel Sumner spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit, singing, writing songs, and playing guitar with the acclaimed Boston group Twisted Pine. These days Rachel belongs somewhere else, though. As a solo artist, her work has grown in clarity and conviction. Intricate yet forthright, these are songs we can believe in. Song about our lives, Rachel’s and yours. Not just love and heartbreak, but friendship and death, learning and suffering, justice, craving too much of the world. A perfect example of this is in Rachel’s original song “Radium Girls (Curie Eleison),” which won the grand prize in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. rachelsumnermusic.com
Hazel Royer is a Boston musician that primarily is an upright bassist, guitarist, and singer. She plays a variety of styles including Folk, Jazz, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Rock, and Blues. Hazel is currently studying upright bass music performance at Berklee College of Music, where she is in her 3rd year. Hazel grew up playing folk and bluegrass music in the Boston music scene with her father, Eric Royer.
Maxfield Anderson is a Boston-based musician, writer, and teacher. Born in Tulsa, OK, he grew up with a healthy diet of twang that guided him towards the ever-expanding sounds of American folk traditions. Max’s music-making is driven by a desire to honor tradition, and to be a part of carrying those traditions into their next phases. Max can be heard performing locally and touring throughout the Northeast on mandolin, fiddle, and clawhammer banjo with bluegrass quartet Pretty Saro, and alongside local artists such as Grain Thief, Rachel Sumner, and Ira Klein. In addition to performing, Max teaches mandolin, fiddle, and ensembles at Club Passim’s School of Music and Concord Conservatory of Music. maxfieldanderson.com
Noble Dust - “There is beauty in the power of all aspects of the band’s music, but it’s balanced by just how damn fun it is...” - Red Line Roots
A motley collection of reformed band geeks, Noble Dust creates dynamic, lyrically-driven progressive folk pop, blending ethereal vocal harmonies with intricate horn and string melodies. The group released their eponymous debut EP in December of 2015 and received a grant from Club Passim's Iguana Music Fund to complete their first full length album, And The Tide Rises released in April of 2018. They have since shared stages big and small (a sold-out Club Passim, City Winery Boston MainStage, The Grey Eagle) with Dietrich Strause & Zachariah Hickman, Adam Ezra Group, and Session Americana.
www.nobledustmusic.com
Don your snazziest leg warmers and join Noble Dust and Rachel Sumner for A Stranger Things Halloween - a night of haunting harmonies and 80s nostalgia! Costumes highly recommended.
This Halloween, Rachel Sumner & Hazel Royer recreate the high, lonesome bluegrass sounds of pioneering women Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerard. With the help of Maxfield Anderson playing the mandolin parts of David "Dawg" Grisman, this trio will transport you to the Appalachian mountains with songs about mining, early feminist anthems, lost parents, and heartbroken lovers.
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Rachel Sumner spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit, singing, writing songs, and playing guitar with the acclaimed Boston group Twisted Pine. These days Rachel belongs somewhere else, though. As a solo artist, her work has grown in clarity and conviction. Intricate yet forthright, these are songs we can believe in. Song about our lives, Rachel’s and yours. Not just love and heartbreak, but friendship and death, learning and suffering, justice, craving too much of the world. A perfect example of this is in Rachel’s original song “Radium Girls (Curie Eleison),” which won the grand prize in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. rachelsumnermusic.com
Hazel Royer is a Boston musician that primarily is an upright bassist, guitarist, and singer. She plays a variety of styles including Folk, Jazz, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Rock, and Blues. Hazel is currently studying upright bass music performance at Berklee College of Music, where she is in her 3rd year. Hazel grew up playing folk and bluegrass music in the Boston music scene with her father, Eric Royer.
Maxfield Anderson is a Boston-based musician, writer, and teacher. Born in Tulsa, OK, he grew up with a healthy diet of twang that guided him towards the ever-expanding sounds of American folk traditions. Max’s music-making is driven by a desire to honor tradition, and to be a part of carrying those traditions into their next phases. Max can be heard performing locally and touring throughout the Northeast on mandolin, fiddle, and clawhammer banjo with bluegrass quartet Pretty Saro, and alongside local artists such as Grain Thief, Rachel Sumner, and Ira Klein. In addition to performing, Max teaches mandolin, fiddle, and ensembles at Club Passim’s School of Music and Concord Conservatory of Music. maxfieldanderson.com
Noble Dust - “There is beauty in the power of all aspects of the band’s music, but it’s balanced by just how damn fun it is...” - Red Line Roots
A motley collection of reformed band geeks, Noble Dust creates dynamic, lyrically-driven progressive folk pop, blending ethereal vocal harmonies with intricate horn and string melodies. The group released their eponymous debut EP in December of 2015 and received a grant from Club Passim's Iguana Music Fund to complete their first full length album, And The Tide Rises released in April of 2018. They have since shared stages big and small (a sold-out Club Passim, City Winery Boston MainStage, The Grey Eagle) with Dietrich Strause & Zachariah Hickman, Adam Ezra Group, and Session Americana.
www.nobledustmusic.com
