Haley Heynderickx’s songwriting is crushingly intimate, vivid, melodically inventive, and completely unpredictable. Her debut album I Need to Start a Garden seamlessly contrasts her unconventional tunings and American-Primitive-inspired fingerpicking with enveloping sonic outbursts. Lead by her raw, immersive vocals, the Portland songwriter’s music defies categorization. NPR called her “an utterly distinct and wonderfully nervy, idiosyncratic presence,” while Stereogum named the album “one of the most intriguing and immersive debuts of the year.”
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SAINTSENECA IS A YOUNG BAND FROM COLUMBUS, OHIO LED BY SINGER-SONGWRITER AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST ZAC LITTLE. FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HEARTLAND BANDS WHO HAVE SOUGHT TO TWIST THE MUSIC OF THE OLD WEIRD AMERICA INTO NEW SHAPES – FROM THE VIOLENT FEMMES TO NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL – SAINTSENECA PERFORM SONGS THAT SOUND FAMILIAR AND UNIQUELY ORIGINAL, ALL AT ONCE. THE GROUP UTILIZES A WIDE RANGE OF ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTATION (BALALAIKA, MANDOLIN, DULCIMER, TURKISH BAGLAMA, FLOOR PERCUSSION) WITH MORE CONTEMPORARY ELEMENTS SUCH AS SYNTHESIZERS AND ELECTRIC GUITARS TO CREATE A SEAMLESS BLEND OF SOARING VOCALS AND VIBRANT POST-PUNK ENERGY.
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Doors: 5:45pm
Music: 7:00pm