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SUMMARY:Bonny Light Horseman @ Higher Ground
DESCRIPTION:The Point Welcomes: \nBonny Light Horseman \nA Tour de Point Show\n \n  \nFriday\, July 25  ~  Doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 8 PM \nHigher Ground | South Burlington\, VT \n– Tickets and Event Info – \n  \nBonny Light Horseman’s new album\, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free\, is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident and generous\, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high and staked even higher: love and loss\, hope and sorrow\, community and family\, change and time all permeate Bonny Light Horseman’s most vulnerable and bounteous offering to date. Yet for all of its humanistic touchpoints\, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free was forged from a kind of unexplainable magic. \nWritten over five months in 2023\, this third album began when the band’s core trio–Anaïs Mitchell\, Eric D. Johnson\, and Josh Kaufman–convened in an Irish pub alongside beloved collaborators JT Bates (drums)\, Cameron Ralston (bass)\, and recording engineer Bella Blasko. Mitchell suggested the pub as their first recording location\, based on her one conversation with owner Joe O’Leary. She had a feeling about the place\, and was surprised by her bandmates’ enthusiasm for the idea. Stepping inside the pub’s aged confines\, the trio felt an immediate connection to its palpable sense of community\, and of family\, forged over many decades. \nThe pub was Levis (pronounced: “leh-viss”) Corner House\, a century-old watering hole in Ballydehob\, a tiny coastal village in County Cork\, and its energy became a singular source of Bonny Light Horseman’s creative engine. The pub’s upright piano\, which they lubricated with olive oil to quiet its creaking\, became a sort of spiritual fulcrum\, a single entity that embodied all of the album’s motifs: imperfection as a badge of honor; aging\, endurance and the passage of time; how the simplest of acts can heal us. The analogs–between this century-old meeting place of local folk and this trio of American folkies–were undeniable. “It has this sense of history; it’s also small\, and crammed with a bunch of stuff that’s spilling all over the place\,” says Kaufman. “It was like the pub version of our band.” A painting that hung on a wall of the pub\, which watched over the band during their time working\, became the album cover. “I was making eye contact with that person for most of the recording\,” Johnson said of the artwork. And there was a deeper connection. Before the band had even planned to record in the pub\, the owner’s wife had named the woman in the painting Bonnie. \nWith Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free\, Bonny Light Horseman offers a distinct sense of grace\, and a reminder that life is most lived when things aren’t so perfect. Over the years\, the band has accumulated many miles on the collective odometer of life. That’s all reflected here\, in these modern folk songs\, laced with glory and chaos. As Mitchell puts it: “It’s not concise. It’s not simple. It’s messy\, and that’s OK.”
URL:https://pointfm.com/events/bonny-light-horseman-higher-ground-2/
LOCATION:Higher Ground\, 1214 Williston Rd\, South Burlington\, VT\, 05403\, United States
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