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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Folk festival keeps music coming
Sisters Folk Festival is fol-
lowing up on the tremendous
success of its 21st annual
event with two upcoming
shows.
On Sunday, November
6, Darlingside with Frances
Luke Accord will perform at
the Tower Theatre in Bend.
Sponsored by Birkenstock
of Bend, the band will return
Central Oregon after being
fan-favorites at the 2014 and
2015 Sisters Folk Festival.
The Boston-based band is on
a national tour following the
release of their album “Birds
Say.”
Darlingside fuses cham-
ber pop with folk melodies
for infectious and gorgeous
music that is hard to catego-
rize. Rolling Stone magazine
says, “locomotive folk-pop
confections so richly executed
it’s hard to tell if it’s one voice
or 12.”
After performing at the
2014 festival, the band has
been back twice, the last
being a sold-out show in
March 2016.
We wanted to present
the show in downtown
Bend to expose them
to a larger market.
— Brad tisdel
“The band has a special,
inventive and deeply intrigu-
ing style of music that sepa-
rates them from most. We
wanted to present the show
in downtown Bend to expose
them to a larger market. We
are continually being asked
when they are coming back,
and wanted to do something
different this time, presenting
them at the beautiful Tower
Theatre. It will be a show
not to be missed,” says Brad
Tisdel, creative director of
Sisters Folk Festival.
Frances Luke Accord,
an independent Chicago-
based duo hailing originally
from South Bend, Indiana,
will open the show. Both
dedicated multi-instrumen-
talists and meticulous song-
writers, Nicholas Gunty and
Brian Powers distinguish their
music with genre fluidity, but-
tery harmonies and acoustic
ensembles. Although prevail-
ingly a modern folk band,
FLA sips copious inspiration
from Americana, jazz, soul,
and rock.
Tickets for the November
6 show are available on the
Tower Theatre website and are
$24 advance, $28 at the door.
On Thursday, November
17, SFF presents the
Chicago-based Hypnotic
Brass Ensemble at the Sisters
High School auditorium. The
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
is a family band consist-
ing of seven brothers who
began their musical training
by their father, jazz-trum-
peter/bandleader Kelan Phil
Cohran (Earth, Wind & Fire;
Chaka Khan; and Sun Ra).
The boys went on to form the
Phil Cohran Youth Ensemble
in 1990.
The family toured the
United States performing
complex originals written by
Cohran and other greats such
as Duke Ellington, Count
Basie, and even the music
of classical greats Bach &
Beethoven.
Although the group’s
early musical training encom-
passed primarily elements of
instrumental performance,
the brothers were personally
being exposed to the music
of their own generation (hip-
hop, rock, reggae to name a
few) and absorbed these com-
ponents into the cosmic jazz
style of their father. By 1999,
the band of brothers discon-
tinued playing with dad in
order to find their own sound,
growing into the band now
known as Hypnotic Brass
Ensemble, or HBE.
The group’s sound was
best described by Fader
Magazine’s Edwin Stats, who
called the band’s music: “a
huge brass bridge of hyp-
notic polyphony connecting
the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra’s
Arkestra with the urgency
of hip-hop and the sweeping
emotional scale of a Curtis
Mayfield blaxploitation
opus.”
News of the ensemble’s
sound spread throughout the
industry, and after emcee/
actor Mos Def caught a live
HBE show, the brothers were
asked to join him onstage
as part of the Mos Def Big
Band. The group has graced
many stages around the globe
including Jazzstage at Lincoln
Center and Shepherd’s Bush
in London.
Together they have toured
throughout Europe, Asia,
Australia, Africa and South
America playing with every-
one from Prince, Mos Def,
Mick Jones (The Clash),
and Damon Albarn (Blur,
Gorillaz). They’ve performed
at Coachella, WOMAD AU,
Jazz at Lincoln Center, The
Sydney Opera House and
Carnegie Hall.
The documentary film
Brothers Hypnotic explores
their music, work-ethic, life
and experience being raised
by their jazz-legend father.
After screening in major cities
and festivals, the film aired on
PBS. Their song “War” was
featured in the blockbuster hit
movie “Hunger Games.”
The band will provide
a workshop for students at
Sisters High School during
the day.
Tickets for SFF Presents:
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are
$15 adult and $10 for students
and can be purchased at www.
sistersfolkfestival.org/events,
or call the festival office at
541-549-4979.
Shows start at 7 p.m.
VELOSO: Contributions
can still be made to
help Sisters man
Continued from page 3
solo set, Jennifer McCrystal
took to the stage. She shared
a story of how she met the
young man when he came
in to work for her at The
Cottonwood Café. She was
taken by his kind and gener-
ous nature and happy to help
when he shared his diagnosis.
“If somebody in this town
has a problem or someone has
a need, it’s all about jumping
together to help them out,”
said McCrystal. “I am so
thankful that we have a com-
munity that will step up and
support one another.”
McCrystal’s brother, Jeff
Mornarich, a professional
auctioneer, drove over from
Roseburg for the evening to
donate his services to help
raise funds for Veloso.
Several community mem-
bers and businesses donated
items for the live auction.
Original artwork, vacation
packages, dining options,
beer, clothing and more were
auctioned off all in support of
Veloso’s treatment and fol-
low-up appointments.
After the auction, event
goers were invited to stay and
listen and dance to local musi-
cians Dennis McGregor and
The Spoilers and revel in the
community spirit and love.
“This event was an exam-
ple of the best of what Sisters
is as a community,” said
Yoder.
If you weren’t able to
attend and you would like to
make a donation to Veloso’s
recovery you may mail a con-
tribution to Justin M. Veloso
Cancer Fund PO Box 370,
Sisters, Oregon 97759 or
direct a deposit at any Bank
of the Cascades branch to
the Justin M. Veloso Fund,
account number 88458.
photo by erin borla
Justin Veloso is a talented drummer and teacher.
Sunday mornings
we open the bar
at 9:30 so you can
catch the 10:00
NFL games over
breakfast and a
541-549-RIBS
sisterssaloon.net
190 E. Cascade Ave., Sisters
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