By K.D. Norris
The Lone Bellow, the band’s hearts and souls anyway, will bring their alt/indie Americana folk sounds to St. Cecilia Music Center’s stage later this month as part of its Acoustic Cafe Folk series with the Royce Auditorium stage set for an unusual but alluring concert focused on the band’s one-mic sounds.
Grand Rapids will, in fact, be among the first cities in the U.S. to feature The Lone Bellow’s Triiio Tour, which not only focuses the band down to its core three but also highlights their new acoustic EP, Restless, released Oct. 19.
And tickets remain available for the Thursday, Nov. 29, show, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. with a post-concert party open to all ticket-holders and giving the audience the opportunity to possibly meet the artists and obtain signed CDs of their releases.
The Triiio Tour features the three key members of The Lone Bellow — guitarist/vocalist Zach Williams, guitarist Brian Elmquist, and multi-instrumentalist Kanene Donehey Pipkin — playing in concert as a trio with no back up band. (Something which experienced fans know from previous live shows where the trio would gather for a couple of songs as part of an intimate acoustic interlude.)
“We are very excited to welcome The Lone Bellow on this special acoustic tour,” Cathy Holbrook, St. Cecilia executive director, said in supplied material. “SCMC will be the perfect venue for this great band and their acoustic sound.”
The Triiio Tour is also a live presentation of their Restless EP, which features new songs, two covers, and three reworked versions of songs from previous records form the Brooklyn-born, now Nashville-based band.
“Since we released our first album in 2013, we’ve been setting a few songs aside every night to sing together around one mic, and those times have become some of our most memorable musical moments of touring together,” Williams said in supplied material. “We were prompted to make a record that would capture that feeling, and to make it ourselves. We had never done that before. We ended up making it in Jason and Kanene’s attic along with all of the natural sounds of that space: floors creaking, birds chirping, babies crying, lawnmowers running. It was a joy to make.”
The Restless EP was produced by Brian Elmquist and Jason Pipkin. For more information on The Lone Bellow, visit here.
The remaining concerts in the Acoustic Cafe Folk series, all in 2019, include Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn on Feb. 9, The Milk Carton Kids on Feb. 28, Asleep at the Wheel on April 11, and guitarist Leo Kottke on April 18. (Here’s a hint: Get your tickets to The Milk Carton Kids soon.)
Remaining tickets for The Lone Bellow are $30. All concert tickets can be purchased by calling St. Cecilia Music Center at 616-459-2224 or visiting the box office at 24 Ransom Ave. NE. For more information or to purchase tickets online visit www.scmc-online.org.
