BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Corner House Album Release Show w/ OldHat StringBand X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220506T080000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220506T080000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Corner House Album Release Show w/ OldHat StringBand DESCRIPTION:ADVANCE PURCHASE: $15\nDAY-OF: $20\n10% MEMBER DISCOUNT\n\nO riginally hailing from Boston\, MA\, Corner House takes their name from the place where the four young band members found musical family in one another – their shared home in Brighton\, as students at Berklee Colle ge of Music. Emerging from varied genre backgrounds\, the quartet’s un ique strength is their desire to learn from one another\, not only in mu sical skill and style\, but in life experience\; such that every challen ge overcome by one band member becomes part of the group’s shared musi cal and personal DNA. On their debut full length album How Beautiful It s Been the band reveals the sublime result of that growth mindset\, wi th a singular sound that incorporates old time\, Scottish\, progressive bluegrass and folk.\n\nOriginally made up of songwriter and guitarist Et han Hawkins\, Scottish fiddle player Louise Bichan\, and bluegrass mando linist Ethan Setiawan\, Corner House are students of a wide variety of m usical traditions. In the autumn of 2017\, the group debuted at FreshGra ss Festival in North Adams\, MA\, before recording a self-titled EP and touring Scotland the following year. Returning from overseas\, the three found the illustrious cellist\, Casey Murray\, living just down the str eet and invited her to join the fold\, unveiling the new line-up on a se cond EP\, Smart Folks\, released in 2019. For their debut full length re cord\, which focuses more on lyric based arrangements\, they enlisted ha rp virtuoso Maeve Gilchrist\, a past mentor to all four band members\, t o produce. “We all really admired her musicality\, arranging and writi ng\, and Ethan and Maeve bonded over poetry\, and songwriting”\, expla ins Bichan.\n\nHow Beautiful It’s Been features five songs and four in strumentals\, which serve as soundscape meditations between each lyrical offering. Several of the instrumentals\, such as “2 Rights Make A Chi cken”\, showcase the Celtic influence in the band\, with gorgeous cell o and fiddle melodies calling Alisdair Fraser and Natalie Haas recording s to mind. In this context\, however\, they are also accompanied by rhyt hmic and arpeggiated mandolin and guitar\, emerging into improvised solo s before returning to the melodic backbone of the tune.\n\nIn many ways\ , Corner House is the band we all wish we could be a part of. Mutually i nspired\, learning from one another\, and open to any and all ideas\, th e group is a beautiful representation of their generation\; not only tol erating\, but embracing diversity in every aspect of their music making. If we listen closely enough\, we may be able to learn just as much from them as they have from one another. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/corner-house-album-releas e-show-w-oldhat-stringband/ UID:urn:uuid:8ce91f59-754a-4eb8-83e5-8610dd7bee19 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260430T094939Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR