Mipso
w/ Liv Greene
Thursday, August 22
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
All ages / Standing
$18 Member / $20 General Admission Advance/ $25 GA Day of Show
Mipso’s recent Book of Fools album release tour—nine weeks on the road through 24 states and Canada—marked a full decade on the road for the North Carolina string band. Fans know their acoustic sound has flexed to feature moments of searing energy and electric improvisation, but more notable is how the band has stayed true to their original spark: tight harmonies, great songs, and a near-telepathic connection on stage among college friends who spend their 20s together in a tour van. “Mipso and Friends” is a new chapter featuring guests on stage and songs from every era of the band’s evolving catalog.
Liv Greene isn’t running from herself anymore. She’s pried herself open and let real longing, frustration, and love break free. Deep Feeler, her sophomore album, is a reckoning with reality, a vulnerable snapshot of hard-won self-acceptance. It’s feminine, queer, and defiant. It also heralds the arrival of Greene as a powerful new voice who joins the songwriting tradition of Emmylou, Patty, Gillian, and Lucinda – in her own way. Greene self-produced and recorded Deep Feeler primarily live to tape in Nashville’s Woodland Sound Studios, with collaborator Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, O Brother Where Art Thou) and a dreamy band of friends including Sarah Jarosz, Dom Billett, Elise Leavy, Matt Andrews, and Christian Sedelmeyer. The resulting collection of lilting melodies and poignant storytelling is a bold achievement: a piece of art that matters culturally, musically, and personally.
Thank you to our year-round Lead Sponsors: AC Hotel Portsmouth, The Brook Casino, Katzman Contemporary Projects, MacEdge, and Raka.
Thank you to our Summer Season Sponsors: BANKW Staffing, Beswick Engineering, and Procon, Inc.
