Windborne with Chris Koch
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. ***
Conjuring up echoes of the late lamented Canadian group “Finest Kind”, Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 30-somethings who revel in the vocal traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either acapella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, and percussion.
Chris Koch is a seasoned singer-songwriter with three albums to his credit. Teeter Gray’s Blue Love (2004) was a collection of country/Americana-flavored pop with performances by Eric Weisberg (Dueling Banjos), pedal steel maestro John Widgren and renowned violinist Charlie Burnham. Scenes from the Coastal Evacuation (2008) is a heavier, more ambient and layered collection of dystopian sermons. And QWERT’s Book of M (2024) returns to the light with ten “Old man love songs.”