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SUMMARY:Mark Erelli w/ Molly Parden
DESCRIPTION:Mark Erelli turns adversity into finely embroidered rock son
 gs that burn with urgency on his 2023 album Lay Your Darkness Down. Foll
 owing full-bodied rock forebears Tom Petty\, George Harrison\, and Roy O
 rbison\, Erelli’s songwriting explores the unknown glories of this pla
 net and love’s transformational power. Over his two decade-long career
 \, the singer-songwriter-sideman-producer-writer has proven himself equa
 lly at home in a multitude of roles: producing albums for artists like G
 RAMMY-winner Lori McKenna\; serving as a sideman guitarist for artists l
 ike Paula Cole\, Marc Cohn\, and Josh Ritter\; writing and producing his
  own material\, like 2018’s “By Degrees\,” for which he was nomina
 ted for Song of the Year at the Americana Honors and Awards\; and most r
 ecently\, becoming an advocate for low-vision artists and working with v
 enues to make their spaces more accessible. Written in the wake of his d
 iagnosis with a degenerative retinal disease\, Erelli’s upcoming 2023 
 album Lay Your Darkness Down is the next step on Erelli’s journey\, fo
 llowing up on 2020’s Blindsided\, which garnered praise from Rolling S
 tone Country\, the Associated Press\, NPR\, The Boston Globe\, and more.
 \n\nWith the release of “Cigarette” (Apr 13\, 2023) Parden signals t
 he rollout of her 3rd full length album\, the effort of 3 recording sess
 ions over 3 years with Micah Tawlks at Peptalk Studios in Nashville. Tak
 ing inspiration from The War on Drugs’ “Future Weather”\, Kurt Vil
 e’s “Smoke Ring For My Halo”\, and Feist’s “The Reminder”\, 
 years of influence finally channel into one moody\, late-night\, windows
 -down anthem.\n\nFor all its unapproachable beauty\, the heart of Molly�
 ��s music is humble and profoundly human. They are songs that remind us 
 that heartbreak isn’t simply another marketable human emotion\, but is
  more like a familiar place—a sacred space within all of us. We are al
 l born with a deep sense of loss\, and great art has a way of articulati
 ng our personal tragedies—both the ones we’re born into\, and the on
 es we write and direct ourselves. It makes listening to “Rosemary” f
 eel like falling into a dream or a distant memory—a beautiful reminder
  of something we’ve known all along.
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LOCATION:181 State St\, Portland\,  Maine  04101\,  US
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