BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Point - ECPv5.16.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Point
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pointfm.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Point
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220819T223000
DTSTAMP:20260423T124808
CREATED:20220719T140227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T140607Z
UID:105165-1660937400-1660948200@pointfm.com
SUMMARY:Neal Francis @ Backside 405
DESCRIPTION:The Point Welcomes: \nNeal Francis \nA Tour de Point Show \nFriday\, August 19th / Show @ 7:30 pm \nBackside 405 ~ 405 Pine Street\, Burlington \n-Tickets & Info – \nOn his new album In Plain Sight\, Neal Francis offers up a body of work both strangely enchanted and painfully self-aware\, unfolding in songs sparked from Greek myths and frenzied dreams and late-night drives in the depths of summer delirium. True to its charmed complexity\, the singer/songwriter/pianist’s second full-length came to life over the course of a tumultuous year spent living in a possibly haunted church in Chicago. The result: a portrait of profound upheaval and weary resilience\, presented in a kaleidoscopic sound that’s endlessly absorbing. \nThe follow-up to Francis’s 2019 debut Changes—a New Orleans-R&B-leaning effort that landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of KCRW\, KEXP\, and The Current\, and saw him hailed as “the reincarnation of Allen Toussaint” by BBC Radio 6—In Plain Sight was written and recorded almost entirely at the church\, a now-defunct congregation called St. Peter’s UCC. Despite not identifying as religious\, Francis took a music-ministry job at the church in 2017 at the suggestion of a friend. After breaking up with his longtime girlfriend while on tour in fall 2019\, he returned to his hometown and found himself with no place to stay\, then headed to St. Peter’s and asked to move into the parsonage. “I thought I’d only stay a few months but it turned into over a year\, and I knew I had to do something to take advantage of this miraculous gift of a situation\,” he says. \nMixed by Grammy Award-winner Dave Fridmann (HAIM\, Spoon\, The Flaming Lips\, Tame Impala)\, In Plain Sight finds Francis again joining forces with Changes producer and analog obsessive Sergio Rios (a guitarist/engineer known for his work with CeeLo Green and Alicia Keys). Like its predecessor\, the album spotlights Francis’s refined yet free-spirited performance on piano\, an instrument he took up at the age of four. “From a very early age\, I was playing late into the night in a very stream-of-consciousness kind of way\,” he says\, naming everything from ragtime to gospel soul to The Who among his formative influences. With a prodigy-like gift for piano\, Francis sat in with a dozen different blues acts in Chicago clubs as a teenager\, and helmed a widely beloved instrumental funk band called The Heard before going solo. Along with earning lavish acclaim (including a glowing review from Bob Lefsetz\, who declared: “THIS IS THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS!”)\, Changes led to such triumphs as performing live on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic\,” sharing the stage with members of The Meters at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival\, and touring with such acts as Lee Fields & The Expressions and Black Pumas.
URL:https://pointfm.com/events/neal-francis-backside-405/
LOCATION:Backside 405\, 405 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR