BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4eae43d6-a08a-44b1-8ea0-2d34b613ab48@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T142927Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261210T210000 SUMMARY:The Last Bison DESCRIPTION:In 2012 The Last Bison seemingly rose from the marshes of sou theastern Virginia to captivate the national music scene with a rare ble nd of music that NPR dubbed\, “Classical influenced southern folk rock.” Commenting on the band’s self-released debut album\, Quill\, a blogger for the popular music sharing site NoiseTrade remarked: “(The Last) Biso n has already crafted a sound that is threaded with their own singular s trands of creativity. Songs unfurl in textured\, poetic waves that are b ased far more in inspiration than imitation.” WXPN of Philadelphia noted The Last Bison “has subsequently swept the musical scene with its compl ex arrangements\, refined lyrics and vocal harmonies.” Having drawn comp arisons in the past to indie superstars the likes of Mumford & Sons\, Th e Decemberists\, and Fleet Foxes\, their VA project harvested a more dyn amic\, and anthemic sound from the soil of their folk roots. The additio n of electric bass and keyboards to their extensive collection of acoust ic instruments gave them a more dynamic\, driving sound. After a perform ance at Norfolk\, Virginia’s Harborfest\, the The Daily Press commented on the new musical direction saying\, “The result is a more rocking soun d\, though the band still remains true to its folkie roots.” Following t heir first independent release\, Quill\, in 2011\, The Last Bison was si gned to Universal Republic Records and created the Inheritance album in 2013. The 2014 VA album found The Last Bison returning to their independ ent roots\, having self-produced the project in collaboration with Media House Music. To capture the sounds on The Last Bison’s 2014 VA (pronoun ced Virginia\,) the band spent many days and nights in an old A-frame ca bin. The cabin\, called “the Wigwam” sits on a summer camp on the edge o f the Great Dismal Swamp near the band’s home in Chesapeake\, Virginia. The pine-lined walls and high-lofted beams became home to a temporary st udio where front man Ben Hardesty says\, “We had freedom to explore and create without the time constraints we lived under on previous projects. ” Out of this rustic cabin emerged a collection of music with booming or ganic drums and energy beyond anything on their previous work. Ben Harde sty\, who is the primary songwriter and vocalist\, recorded the drum tra cks on VA. Andrew Benfante\, who has played a 1930s reed organ on previo us works\, added piano to the layers\, and Amos Housworth expanded from cello to offering all the bass tracks on the project. Dan Hardesty alter nated from banjo to mandolin to guitar\, while he and Annah Housworth\, who playsed bells\, provided the lush backing vocals. Teresa Totheroh’s violin remained the thread that sowed the myriad parts together. The 11 songs on VA revealed a band relishing in the struggle for and the discov ering of freedom. When Hardesty sang\, Take me with you\, I can’t stay h ere\, from “She Always Waves At The Gate\,” and\, Into the den of the sh adows I’ve come Far beyond what is shallow I’ve swum\, from the dark and atmospheric “Sleep\,” he revealed the emotional tension of desperately desiring something beyond\, while treading in new territory both thrilli ng and threatening. In the mysterious piano driven song “By No Means\, “ Hardesty proclaimed\, I’m lost in caves that have no end Astray in cave rns that begin Yet when explored\, disorient And I have waited patiently To see such grace and mastery Personified to this extent\, declaring he has found something that satisfies his longing\, and finds rest as he r ejoices with the words\, “All who are weary\, come lay your burdens down ” in the song “Burdens”. With their most recent work SÜDA\, Last Bison h ave stampeded down from the mountaintop and landed in the wild lands\, w here they inhabit world rhythms\, ambient oases and crystalline stone-ca thedrals with music that echoes out into the night. After 2014 sessions polishing their more pastoral arrangements into larger visions for the L P VA and EP Dorado\, Last Bison have gone through a lineup change and pu shed even further into a grander sonic landscape that they’ve felt their arrangements always deserved. SÜDA was tracked at COLLECTOR studios in Norfolk\, VA in the summer of 2016 with new faces on board and a new goa l in mind: to expand their songs into creations that more closely matche d the sounds that they hear in their own heads every day. SÜDA is a cont inuance of the spirit that birthed Inheritance and VA and moves the musi c into technicolor. The focus of writing revolved around the concept of the time singer Ben Hardesty spent as a child in the rainforests of Boli via with his missionary parents. The songs focus on themes of longing\, times remembered\, and the desire for spiritual and tonal catharsis. The sound is not so much a departure from the previous vision of stark and lush chamber folk\, but a broader stroke from the same intimate brush th at originally drew fans to the music and members. Now\, Last Bison are r eady to express the passion they’ve poured into their project since ince ption in more fully formed maturity and share their hearts anew\, for th e first time\, once again.\n\nTickets: https://www.facebook.com/TheLastB ison\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/4eae43d6-a08a-44b1-8ea0-2d34b6 13ab48 LOCATION:Jammin' Java\, Vienna\, VA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/4eae43d6-a08a-44b1-8ea0-2d34b613ab4 8 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR