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:64c51998-6401-4e86-b30b-1d7c6b661f6c@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T145159Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261212T213000 SUMMARY:Lily Seabird w/ Eliza Niemi DESCRIPTION:Foam Presents Lily Seabird w/ Eliza Niemi Saturday\, December 12th 7:30pm Doors | 8pm Show All Ages | Free Parking.......... Lily Sea bird “Sometimes life gets so dark\, it starts to feel like a bad trip\,” at least that’s how Lily Seabird reflects on the seasons that led to th e making of her new record\, Lightspheres on Their Way. Seabird’s third record in as many years for Lame-O Records deals in mortality and revere nce for the innately human\, piecing her troubadour-ish folk to a grungy rock sentimentality. Though born from a period of reckoning and renewal \, Seabird orients Lightspheres on Their Way around a holistic realism t hat buoys the spirit\, with loose\, earthy arrangements that meet intens ity and depth with both twangy spaciousness and searing drive. Across th e record’s nine tracks\, the Vermont-based singer and songwriter orbits around the concept of “lightspheres\,” a catalysing presence or force th at visits time and time again and shifts stories\, feelings and trajecto ries. “A lightsphere can be so many things” says Seabird\, “ an actual l ight like a star\, the sun\, a UFO\; headlights\, a flashlight in the ni ght\; but also life\, living things\, people\, relationships.” Weaving t he esoteric with hard\, unadulterated truths\, Seabird’s songwriting has evolved away from the diaristic of Trash Mountain and Alas\, to a more observational approach. OnLightspheres\, her perspective is novelistic a nd alchemical\, channeling memories\, events and characters from her lif e into a collection of songs forged from the hard-fought journey of self actualization\, and the awareness of how precious and fleeting it all r eally is. Seabird wrote most of Lightspheres on Their Way in a state of transience\, contrasting Trash Mountain’s songs which emerged from her h ome of the same name at the time. She recounts capturing the lyrics to “ Blackstar” on a paper napkin in the back of the van leaving Austin\, and writing “The Afterglow” at a coffee shop on an electric bill\, moved by the recent death of folk legend Michael Hurley. The heart-wringing soli loquy “Slipswitch” was written in two parts\, nearly a year of space bet ween\, its latter a careful reflection of the former. “It was painful an d it was ugly\, but at the root of it all it was love burning” sings Sea bird in the winding\, intimate missive\, accompanied by only guitar and Wurlitzer. Like the collage that constitutes the album art\, Lightsphere s on Their Way presents a true amalgamation of Seabird’s history and inf luences\, resulting in her most dynamic and wild work yet. It’s full of nods and sonic offerings to Bowie\, Joni\, Elvis\, and the jam bands tha t her mother followed closely in the 80s and 90s like the Grateful Dead and Ween. Lightspheres is also interspersed with Seabird’s writerly infl uences\, taking inspiration from Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers as she questions God on album invocation “The Pulley.” “Bindlestiff” is inform ed by the wandering\, lonely men of Steinbeck’s East of Eden\, its ten v erses delivered in sequential rapid fire by Seabird’s snarl. Though Ligh tspheres marks a moment of ascension for Seabird’s songwriting\, she ass erts that “the most emotional parts of the record are instrumental.” It’ s true—the Crazy Horse stomp of “Portal to the Past” and others stretch into spacious\, jammy interludes and outros where Seabird and Rick Soszy nski revel in fuzzy\, gritty guitars. They act as moments of emotional d ecompression\, like rolling down the windows and surrendering to the exp anse of the open road. Recorded and co-produced with collaborator Garret t Linck\, Seabird and her band tracked Lightspheres over the first few d ays of 2026\, holed up in Linck’s home in rural Maine. For a makeshift s tudio using a wood stove for warmth\, Seabird and Linck capture studio-q uality sonics throughout. This is most notable on the ferocious Albini-c hanneling single "Election Day\," where Daniel Snyder's drums propel the band as Seabird expertly expands its title as not political\, but rathe r making a painful decision between two unideal outcomes. Cellist Eliza Niemi adds a tender\, bittersweet color to “Pennsy” while Linck lets an e-bow skip along guitar strings to approximate Seabird’s lyric about fee ling “static on my fingertips.” Lightspheres on Their Way is a testament to the depths one can reach in their art when you stop trying to tell t he story of what happened to you\, and instead start talking about who y ou are. “There is a boldness that comes with getting older\, understandi ng myself a little more\,” says Seabird\, reflecting on the clarity she’ s found in the last few years. That clarity and self-knowledge serve as an anchor as Seabird navigates the murky depths\, looking into the face of loss\, addiction\, mortality and disillusionment and meeting it with empathy and genuine care. How do we meet the inevitable moments of chang e and transition with reverence and bravery instead of fear? With the kn owledge that everything is a "lightsphere\,” on its way somewhere new\, moving away from where and what it's been. Spotify | Instagram | Website ............. Eliza Niemi Eliza Niemi is a multi-instrumentalist\, songw riter and film composer from Toronto. Her lyric-driven\, uniquely-arrang ed music has been described as “slice of life” and “ASMR pop.” Before sh e became a cellist and vocalist\, her father taught her the basics of ba ss and guitar at home. They would play together by ear\, which fostered her deep musicality and a creative ethic that prioritizes joyful collabo ration. Collaboration has always been at the centre of her practice — wh ether it be in improvising\, playing in her friends’ bands (Dorothea Paa s\, Andre Ethier\, Little Kid\, Evan J Cartwright)\, or running her labe l Vain Mina Records. Her LPs Staying Mellow Blows (2022) and Progress Ba kery (2025) were long listed for the Polaris Music Prize. Spotify | Inst agram | Website\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lily-seabird-w- eliza-niemi-tickets-2002157007506\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/6 4c51998-6401-4e86-b30b-1d7c6b661f6c LOCATION:Foam Brewers\, Burlington\, VT URL:https://findlocal.community/event/64c51998-6401-4e86-b30b-1d7c6b661f6 c STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR