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Eddie Berman / Brian Larney / Hannah Siglin

  November 17, 2017 8:00 PM
Doors Open: 7:30 PM

Raised in Southern California, singer-songwriter Eddie Berman has been writing songs since he was a teenager. His bedroom demos have earned substantial play on the California-based public radio station KCRW-FM. Berman has recorded and played throughout North America and Europe. In fact, he performed for several thousand people over dozens of sold-out London residency shows in partnership with singer Laura Marling.

While recording a live EP with Marling in 2013, Berman realized that the way to make a record was to strip the process down to get to the essence of the song. His new debut album, Before the Bridge, does just that. The album was produced by Pierre de Reeder in Kingsize North, his Los Angeles studio. Berman and his supporting cast cut the 10 tunes on this record in only two days. The tight time frame didn't give them time to overthink the arrangements or fret over every point of possible imperfection. The songs on Before the Bridge are stark and honest examinations of the impulses, neuroses, and desires that push each of us from one day into the next.

When Brian Larney of the Town Hall was recording his 5-song EP, his plan was to call it the Charm Offensive. That changed the day he stumbled across an old political button that read "America Needs J.F.K." Though America Needs the Town Hall isn't intended to be a political EP, it certainly reflects the current state of media and politics, having been written in this time of political divide and social upheaval by a writer as introspective and sensitive as Larney. The third track, “Backlash”, was the writer's reaction to the unfortunate outcome of the Dallas protests last summer: "Everyone has lost it, the crowd loses sight. There's five dead in Dallas tonight." However, not all of Larney's songwriting is so grim. He is influenced as much by Burt Bacharach and the Partridge Family as he is by modern alternative groups such as Father John Misty, City and Colour, and the Decemberists.

Hannah Siglin is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from the Pacific Northwest.  Her love of singing grew at a young age, and at 6 years old her parents gave her a guitar in the hopes that she would learn to accompany her voice.  She began studying roots and folk music and quickly became a well-known performer at local festivals in Spokane, Washington. She is now an active performer in Boston, where she studies at Berklee. Siglin hopes that her combination of classical training and a deep love for folk music will help her create music that is multifaceted and technical, but still relatable and familiar. 

Watch Berman's music video for "Joann":


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