Treedome Presents Field Report, Collections of Colonies of Bees and LAAMAR
Friday, October 3 / ALL AGES
TIME: 6 p.m. Doors, 7 p.m. Show
TICKETS: $25 advanced, $35 day of show, $20 student ticket
Cash purchase tickets at Treedome (309 Broadway Ave S, Rochester, MN, 55902)
Student ticket holders must present proof of a valid student ID at Will Call to obtain entry. Failure to honor this criteria will require you to purchase a new day of priced ticket for $35 and the original ticket will be refunded.
FIELD REPORT:
Milwaukee-based folk outfit Field Report, led byformer Rochester resident Christopher Porterfield alongside Barry Clark, Caley Conway and Devin Drobka, has been touring extensively since 2012, releasing four full-length albums and sharing stages with peers including Aimee Mann, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Jeff Tweedy and many others.
Porterfield, who started off with Dinner For Greg at Mayo High school before performing as a part of DeYarmond Edison with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, has been called “imaginative, detailed and highly literate, creating character-driven songs, sketches that reinforce their narratives with imagery that coalesces into a remarkable sense of place."
COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES:
For two decades, Collections of Colonies of Bees have existed in various forms and incarnations, beginning with Chris Rosenau and Jon Mueller (who split time with post-rock band Pele).
From there, the line-up grew and evolved. At one time, Nick Sanborn -- currently in the spotlight as one-half of Sylvan Esso -- counted himself as a member. At another, the group joined forces with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon to release two albums under the moniker Volcano Choir. (In fact, it was Vernon who proclaimed of his collaborators: “If the world was perfect, they would be as big as U2.”)
LAAMAR:
LAAMAR is the latest project led by Minneapolis-based singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and composer Geoffrey Lamar Wilson. Former frontman of Brooklyn-based Jus Post Bellum, Wilson is also known for his multilayered looped saxophone performances and catchy podcast ditties (Terrible, Thanks for Asking). On the band’s debut EP, Flowers, Wilson blends his idiomatic inspirations bridging folk, soul, R&B, and country with a constant ear toward racial and social justice issues and the shared human experience.