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:Rachel Baiman &\; Taylor Ashton X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rachel Baiman &\; Taylor Ashton DESCRIPTION:$12 adv. - $15 at the door\n7pm doors - 8pm show\n\nWith her 2017 debut Shame\, Americana songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rache l Baiman emerged as a fearless voice of the American female experience.\ n\n“Shame” was featured on NPR’s “Songs We Love”\, called a Rootsy Wake-up Call” by Folk Alley\, and described by Vice’s “Noi sey” as “flipping off authority one song at a time.” On her new fu ll-length album Cycles\, Baiman has found a grittier musical medium for her signature unabashed and defiant songwriting\, employing a majority-f emale team including co-producer Olivia Hally\, known as the front woman of Indie-pop band Oh Pep!\n\nCycles is a collection of songs encompassi ng the many ways that we destroy and rebuild as people\, as families\, a nd as a country. Songs about the cycle of life inspired by the birth of a nephew and the loss of a grandmother\, songs about internal mental cyc les of ambition and self-doubt\, the cycle of progress and regression in our country’s political journey\, and the cycles of growth and reinve ntion that relationships take on. At times heartbreaking\, at times cele bratory\, the album is a reflection of a lot of life experienced in a re latively short amount of time\, a desire to hold fast to the people we l ove in the wake of so much uncertainty\, and an exploration of the immen se and unique strength of women in the face of adversity.\n\nOriginally from Chicago\, Baiman moved to Nashville at eighteen\, and has spent the last decade working as a musician in a wide variety of roles\, from ses sion musician (Molly Tuttle\, Kelsey Waldon\, Caroline Spence)\, to live sidewoman (Kacey Musgraves\, Amy Ray)\, to bandmate and producer. Fiddl e music was her first love\, and she is known in the bluegrass and old t ime world for her work with progressive acoustic duo 10 String Symphony with fiddle player Christian Sedelmyer. Her first solo album Shame\, was produced by Andrew Marlin of Mandolin Orange\, and established her role as part of a new generation of political songwriters. Since 2017\, Baim an has toured her solo project internationally with appearances at the K ilkenny Roots Festival in Ireland\, the Mullum Music Festival in Austral ia\, and the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage in Washington\, DC. She has also released a variety of small scale projects\; her 2018 Free Dirt EP Thanksgiving\, which read as a sort of epilogue to Shame\, a duet projec t with singer Mike Wheeler\, which is a more stripped down nod to her ac oustic roots\, and a 2020 single\, Wrong Way Round\, which shows more so nic experimentation and hints at musical direction of Cycles.\n\nInspire d by the burgeoning grunge rock scene in Melbourne\, Cycles was recorded in Australia in the glorified storage unit known as Purple Wayne Studio s (Big Smoke) with engineer Alex O’Gorman (Angie McMahon). In addition to Hally on bass\, piano and guitar\, and Baiman on guitar\, strings an d banjo\, other musicians include Melbourne drummer Bree Hartley\, guita r players Cy Winstanley (Brandy Clarke) and Josh Oliver (Mandolin Orange )\, and guest vocalists Dan Parsons\, Dan Watkins and Maggie Rigby (The Maes). The album was mixed by GRAMMY winning engineer Shani Gandhi\, who is based in Nashville but originally from Australia as well.\n\nTaylor s career began in Vancouver as frontman and songwriter for Fish &\; Bird. The Vancouver Folk Fest called them “Canada’s most unique fol k-rock ensemble”\, with reviewers taking note of Taylor’s “off-kil ter lyrical excursions” (The Georgia Straight) and his “rich\, compe lling voice” (Exclaim!). From 2006 to 2014 they recorded 4 albums and exhaustively made the rounds of the festival and touring circuit of Cana da\, the U.S.\, and the UK.\n\nThe 12 new songs on Taylor’s solo debut chronicle leaving a relationship\, a band\, and Canada. He moved from T oronto to New York City\, ready to take a break from the heavy touring s chedule of Fish &\; Bird and to find himself in a new setting. He sur vived by singing and playing clawhammer banjo in the subway\, turning he ads with covers that leaned more Motown than hoedown. Over the years he also made a living as an illustrator\, an audio book narrator\, an occas ional sideman for British country soul singer Yola\, a songwriting teach er\, and was even hired by the New York Times to write a song about the debt-ridden subway system. Fueled by $1 pizza slices and the intoxicatin g creative energy of his new home town\, he wrote over 400 songs. “A l ot of them were pretty dumb\,” he said. “But some that I thought wer e dumb turned out to be good.” (See track eight on the album\, “Ever ybody Used To Be A Baby”).\n\nThe first session for what would become The Romantic happened while Taylor was living above the old Mason Jar Mu sic studio in Borough Park\, Brooklyn\, with engineer Jacob Blumberg. Pl aying clawhammer banjo through a guitar amp\, Taylor played a few new so ngs live off the floor in duo formation with a drummer\, and this unlike ly combo forms the rhythmic backbone of the album. Over the next two yea rs\, recording occurred in stops and starts. Taylor rode between friends ’ houses and studios on a yellow bike he built himself\, recording ins truments and vocals piece by piece. Slowly but surely\, with no specific deadline.\n\nIn the meantime Taylor teamed up with fellow songwriter Co urtney Hartman to record a spare duo album. 2018’s Been On Your Side w as nominated for an Independent Music Award and earned praise in Rolling Stone\, who said it “packs a punch in today’s mainstream.”\n\nSom e friends started to wonder when\, if ever\, the solo album would be fin ished. Eventually\, Brooklyn producer Alec Spiegelman (Cuddle Magic\, An a Egge) helped finish the initial sessions and helmed the recording of 6 new ones at his studio. Jacob Blumberg\, who engineered the first sessi ons\, was brought back to do the final mix\, and shares co-producer cred it. The result is a love letter to this time of Taylor’s life\; an ode to the devastating\, ecstatic\, gritty\, sexy decade of his twenties\, woven together through his 5- string banjo with the help of 18 different musicians from the Brooklyn music scene and all across the U.S. and Can ada.\n\nCovid-19 Protocols:\n\nWe are very excited to be hosting live mu sic shows again in our listening room. OLS is committed to providing a s afe environment for all who work\, listen\, or perform live music in our venue. Because our venue is so small\, we will require all staff\, volu nteers\, performers\, and patrons to show proof of full vaccination agai nst COVID-19 when they attend OLS events AND to wear masks indoors unles s they are actively drinking\, eating\, or performing.\n\nProof of vacci ne must come directly from the health care provider that performed the v accination and can be a photo or physical copy of the vaccination card o r record with an accompanying photo ID. Full vaccination means that the date of the performance you are attending is:\n\n* at least 14 days afte r your second dose of an FDA or WHO authorized two dose COVID-19 vaccine \, or\n\n* at least 14 days after your single dose of an FDA or WHO auth orized single dose COVID vaccine.\n\nWe hope we can ease these restricti ons once further progress has been made reducing transmission of the vir us. Until then we greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation.\n\nO ne Longfellow Square does not assume liability\; the ticket holder will assume all risks involved. By purchasing a ticket to this event you agre e to assume full liability for any risks incurred before\, during and af ter the event and agree to the current Terms of Use. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/rachel-baiman-taylor-asht on/ UID:urn:uuid:92b2e3ac-c632-441d-92a7-67e23ddfe51f STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260525T215411Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR