DATE: July 9, 2022
LOCATION: Nowhere Farm, OH
LINEUP: Karin, Linford
REVIEW BY:
SETLIST:
Cast Me Away
I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time
Latter Days
Bothered
The Trumpet Child
Piano Solo (Linford)
Long Lost Brother
Hush Now (Stella's Tarantella)
Infamous Love Song
Little Genius (Linford solo piano)
Ohio (Karin on piano)
Remind Us (Karin on piano)
Professional Daydreamer (Karin on piano)
There's a Bluebird in My Heart
All My Favorite People
When I Go
Bella Luna
Heron Blue
On Saturday, July 9, 2022, we are hosting another Pop Up Concert
in the loft of the barn at Nowhere Else, located at 190 Townsend
Road, Martinsville, Ohio 45146. Karin and Linford will go back
through their extensive catalog and select songs to perform
utilizing only piano and voice. We’ll also share a few new songs.
Pack a picnic, bring a blanket or lawn chairs to spread out on the
lawn and comfortable walking shoes. Beverages will be available on
site. Concert will take place in the air-conditioned barn loft.
Gates open at 5pm. Music starts at 7pm. Bonfire to follow, weather
permitting. Hope to see you on the farm!
Very limited tickets available:
https://stores.portmerch.com/overtherhine/events.html
The Piano and Voice Pop Up concert will be filmed and recorded and
a private link will be emailed approximately 48 hours after the
performance, and available for unlimited viewing for 2 weeks.
Reserve your streaming link here:
https://stores.portmerch.com/overtherhine/events.html
We had such a great time performing our album, Drunkard’s Prayer,
from start to finish a few weeks ago live in the barn loft. We
have extended the viewing time for the streaming link through the
holiday weekend — good for unlimited viewing through July 6, 2022.
https://stores.portmerch.com/overtherhine/events.html
Here’s a bit of a back story on the upcoming Piano and Voice
concert in the loft:
Karin and I first made music together in front of an audience in
1987, while we were students at a little Quaker liberal arts
college in Northeast Ohio. The recital hall was in an upstairs
room in a beautiful, restored barn on campus. It was just the two
of us — Karin’s voice and me at a grand piano.
Often those student recitals were just an exercise in controlling
nerves, but as we leaned in together I still remember the deep
impression on that low-lit stage that Karin was somehow managing
to make real music. After the performance, another student who
went on to a career as a professional opera singer in Vienna came
up to me and said, Linford, what was that? It was like the whole
room changed. Did you feel it? I could feel the music on my skin.
I wasn’t sure what to do with that feedback at the time, but I
thanked him. And yes, I have come to believe that when you put
certain musicians together there can be a chemistry — a sort of
chemical reaction — that people can feel on their skin. Music can
make the body begin to change in real time.
In our songwriting workshops we talk about the fact that the
ancient Greeks believed music was the opposite of astronomy.
Astronomy was all about mapping the stars — the furthest reaches
of the universe they could access. Music was all about accessing
inner terrain. Music had the power to wake up parts of ourselves
that we had forgotten — or never even knew — existed.
A few years after that recital, Karin and I met upstairs in that
same barn, and I asked if she wanted to join a band in Cincinnati.
I didn’t quite get all the words out before she interrupted and
said — Yes. She is fond of saying that she’s been finishing my
sentences ever since.
Thirty-five years since that first performance, in an unbelievable
case of foreshadowing, and with the generous help of the best
music fans in the world, we have restored an 1870s barn here at
our home. And yes, a few weeks ago, we had our Steinway grand
piano moved to the loft.
We are feeling the urge to go back to the beginning and play a
concert that features the sound of the piano and Karin’s voice.
See if the music can still be felt on the skin… We’re going to go
back through our catalog and dig around a bit. Songs like Ohio,
Professional Daydreamer and Latter Days are likely sure bets, but
there are plenty of others, some of which we haven’t played in
awhile. We’re curious. We hope you can join us.
Once again, just the details:
July 9, 2022, Over the Rhine Piano and Voice Pop Up Concert
Barn Loft: 190 Townsend Road, Martinsville, Ohio 45146
Gates open 5pm, Music starts at 7pm, Bonfire to follow
weather-permitting
https://stores.portmerch.com/overtherhine/events.html