posted Apr 24, 2013, 10:51 AM by janet rumble
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Anais Mitchell
Dirk Powell & Cedric Watson
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The Honeycutters
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posted Mar 24, 2013, 1:14 PM by Tree House
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Anais Mitchell will come to the Tree House on April 20. The show will be at Anne and Pete’s house. Anais Mitchell has been described as having the “the earthiness of Shawn Colvin, the child-like bite of Joanna Newsom, and the urban jumpiness of Ani DiFranco.” Anais was signed by Ani DiFranco for her label and Ani collaborated with her on Anais’ awesome Hadestown album, along with Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver fame) and Greg Brown. It is a folk opera about the Ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and is simply amazing. The Guardian calls it “A rich, audacious and moving opus.”
Anais will be joined by her collaborator Jefferson Hamer and play from their new album the Child Ballads. Like her other albums, it’s been getting a lot of rave reviews. The Independent on Sunday said, “The playing is exquisite, the singing vibrant, the arrangements like jewellery. It is absolutely beautiful.” Plus, there will be an opening act. Their good friend Robert Sarazin Blake will open the show.
P.S. Thanks to Randy Abramson for finding Anais via his Rock Torch project (where your favorite musicians recommend their favorite musicians) and to Kevin Perese for getting all of us to check her out. Kevin found Anais on Rock Torch because he loves Peter Mulvey who recommended Anais. Check out Rock Torch here and ask Randy about his Rock Torch book at the next show.
Sunday, March 17 Tickets: $30 (donation*)
Tree House Concerts 6903 Sycamore Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland Doors open at 6 pm, show starts at 7 pm
BYOB
www.anaismitchell.com, www.jeffersonhamer.com and robertsarazinblake.com/
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posted Mar 5, 2013, 6:18 AM by Tree House
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SOLD OUT. SEE FAQ FOR INFO ABOUT WAIT LIST. “Now that’s the kind of fiddlin’ I like, right there…” – Loretta Lynn
What better way to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day than to have a fais do-do? Bring your dance shoes to the VFW in Takoma Park on Sunday, March 17. Tree House Concerts will be hosting two powerhouses of American roots music: Dirk Powell and Cedric Watson. The show will begin early-ish – at 5 pm.
Dirk is a preeminent traditional musician who plays both old-time music from his native Appalachia and Cajun music from his adopted home of Louisiana. He is co-founder of Balfa Toujours Cajun band, and has recorded and performed with Jack White, Joan Baez, Loretta Lynn, Levon Helm among others. Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy nominated fiddler, vocalist, and accordionist who is spearheading the emerging generation of Creole musicians. He plays creole, Cajun, and zydeco music, and travels the world with his band Bijou Creole.
We can’t wait to hear them, and, thankfully we don’t need to – the concert will occur in two short weeks! Tickets will sell quickly. Get ‘em soon. Allons danser!
Dirk Powell and Cedric Watson
Sunday, March 17 Tickets: $25 (donation*; in advance only)
Tree House Concerts Takoma Park VFW Post 350 6420 Orchard Ave. (near New Hampshire & Eastern aves.) EARLY show -- Doors open at 4 pm, show starts at 5 pm No BYOB (the bar will be open at the VFW) Please bring cash (credit cards not accepted)
*All proceeds, minus expenses, go to the musicians.
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posted Jan 4, 2013, 8:25 AM by Tree House
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We love Jenny Owen Youngs here at the Tree House. She won our hearts (including Zelda's, Aline's, Grady's and Gabe's) with her music and personality. In case you missed her first show (or if you're like us and need more JOY), here's your chance. Jenny Owen Youngs grew up in the woods of New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn. After self-releasing her first album Batten the Hatches in 2005, the song "Fuck Was I" appeared in the second season premiere of Showtime’s Weeds. Not long afterward, Youngs signed with Nettwerk Records, and went on to re-release her first record as well as another album, Transmitter Failure, and three EPs through the Canadian indie label. Youngs has toured extensively through the US and Europe, both as headliner and support to artists such as Regina Spektor, Motion City Soundtrack, Aimee Mann, Kevin Devine, and Amanda Palmer. She debuted songs from her most recent album, "An Unwavering Band of Light" at the Tree House last year. We look forward to hearing more of them, along with songs from her newest project "Exhibit," where every Tuesday for eight weeks Jenny spends time in a New York City museum and, in one week’s time, composes and records a song (at home, all alone) inspired by the visit. You can hear the inaugural song in the series, “Here Comes the Monster" here. It was inspired by a visit to The American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Ocean Life."  Youngs says her spirit animals are Johnny Cash, Kate Bush, Tom Waits, and Jack White. What do these disparate musicians have in common? “They are excellent bad asses,” she says. “They just do what they do and what comes out of them is unique and amazing and powerful.” Sound familiar? Yeah, don't let her sweet smile fool you: Jenny Owens Youngs is one bad ass (and one of our favorites).
Jenny Owen Youngs Saturday, February 9 Tree House Concerts Tickets: $20,00 (donation; in advance only) Doors open at 6:00 pm, show starts at 7:00 pm BYOB (pretty please?)
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posted Nov 17, 2012, 8:25 AM by Tree House
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 [WE'RE SOLD OUT. WE DO KEEP A WAITING LIST. EMAIL US IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE WAIT LIST. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST!]
It is happening, Tree House friends. Marah is coming to play an all acoustic Christmas show AND is bringing their new Mountain Minstrelsy band to boot. We are all incredibly excited!
First of all, Marah loves Christmas and has put out a really amazing Christmas album -- "New York is a Christmas Kind of Town." They played these songs on "This American Life" a few years back, which you can listen to here. We have long wanted to get Dave and Christine down to the Tree House for a holiday show and now it's on. It's a Christmas miracle!
But that is not all. Not by a long shot.
Marah recently launched a new project called "Mountain Ministrelsy" which is an album built around various lost and forgotten folk song fragments and lyrics (circa 1850-1910) collected in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania. Dave and Christine re-imagined and re-worked each "song" back to life and the result is a rambling, ramshackle collection of rocking folk music. They pulled together a band to play the songs from a small Pennsylvania town called Millheim, including a nine-year-old fiddle prodigy named Augustus (Gus). Together, the six-piece band creates a big old fashioned sound with a bit of a rock-n-roll edge, and they're all coming to Anne & Pete's living room.
It's gonna be a real barn burner! No microphones, just Central Pennsylvania Christmas hootenanny.
Don't miss this one, seriously. Here's the details:
Marah/Mountain Minstrelsy Xmas Show! Saturday, December 15 Tickets: $25 (Donation*, in advance) Tree House Concerts 6903 Sycamore Avenue, Takoma Park, MD Doors open at 6 pm, show at 7 pm BYOB (And your love of fiddle playing, foot stomping, holiday cheer)
photos by Tim Yarrington
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posted Sep 25, 2012, 9:34 AM by janet rumble
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SOLD OUT!We do have a waiting list. To join it, please email us at treehouseconcert [at] gmail [dot] com with name, number of tickets desired, and phone number. Our shows are packed but you never know; sometimes folks can't make it. Our goal is to share the music and maximize support for the bands. Thanks!
Guitarist Ruthie Morris and singer Linda Hopper are the
songwriting duo behind Magnapop, an alt-rock band based in Atlanta, Georgia
that New York Times music
critic Jon Pareles has described as “all muscle and velocity, a blast of punk
exuberance.” Magnapop's musical style blends the pop vocals and melodies of
Hopper with the aggressive, punk-influenced guitar-playing of Morris and her
back-up vocal harmonies. It was only after they had established a fan base
in Europe and gotten positive press in the United Kingdom that they first
became recognized in the United States, including their native
Atlanta. After modest success in the mid-1990s with
the singles "Slowly, Slowly" and "Open the Door" and a series
of albums produced by Michael Stipe, Bob Mould, and Geza X, the band went on an
extended hiatus due to the dissolution of their record label.
They returned with a new rhythm section in 2005 on the Daemon Records release Mouthfeel. The effort greatly pleased old fans and garnered many new ones. Wrote one Washington Post reviewer, “Singer Linda Hopper still delivers her melodies in a way that is decidedly feminine but almost deadpan, and guitarist Ruthie Morris still plays big, crackling riffs that favor control over outright aggressiveness. The long layoff did nothing to harm their musical relationship …As a result, the disc sounds like an extension of Magnapop's mid-'90s discs, not a half-hearted comeback or a vanity project.” The band has continued to perform and record since and has self-released two more albums, including its most recent, Chase Park. We here at the Tree House are thrilled to host Ruthie and Linda as an acoustic duo on November 3rd.
“It's strange to suggest that more than 15 years after the band's formation it has hit a stride, but the urgent bop, foot-stomping guitar crunch and undeniable melodiousness are pretty insistent in Magnapop's charms.” --Creative Loafing
"Hopper and Morris retain their sizzling musical chemistry: Harmonies intertwine like a candy cane spun with punk snarls and girlish sass.” --Scene magazine
Magnapop (Ruthie Morris & Linda Hopper) Saturday, November 3 Tickets: $20 (Donation*, in advance) Tree House Concerts 6903 Sycamore Avenue, Takoma Park, MD Doors open at 6 pm, show at 7 pm BYOB (And your love of "punk snarls and girlish sass"!)
* All proceeds, minus expenses, go to the artists
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posted Aug 11, 2012, 8:23 AM by janet rumble
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updated Sep 25, 2012, 9:19 AM
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SOLD OUT!We do have a waiting list. To join it, please email us at treehouseconcert [at] gmail [dot] com with name, number of tickets desired, and phone number. Our shows are packed but you never know; sometimes folks can't make it. Our goal is to share the music and maximize support for the bands. Thanks!
Gangstagrass is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based producer and musician Rench. After producing albums for local NYC rappers for a few years, in 2007 Rench decided he needed to scratch a musical itch that had been on his mind since listening heavily to 1970s recordings of Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. The result was a genre-demolishing blitz called Rench Presents: Gangstagrass. It appeared on the Internet as a free download and people took notice. When the album received a positive mention on the influential blog BoingBoin
g.net, hundreds of thousands of downloads followed creating an intense underground buzz.
 Not long after, the FX Network asked Rench to write a theme song for their new series Justified. He had bluegrass players lay down an original track with rapper T.O.N.E-z, the younger brother of early hip hop legends Special K and T-LaRoc. The result was Long Hard Times To Come, the song that opens every episode of the series. Long Hard Times To Come was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2010 after Justified became an instant hit, garnering millions of viewers, and praise for the theme song from fans and critics. Two years later, the Gangstagrass sound was expanded with the release of Rappalachia, a 15-song album featuring a variety of rappers, including Kool Keith, Dead Prez, and Nitty Scott MC. One listen and you'll see why the heady mix of bluegrass and hip hop is still going strong. “If you pay attention to the charts, you get an idea that there is black music and white music," says Rench, "but a lot of people have Hank Williams and Jay-Z on their MP3 players." “A mixture of bluegrass and hip hop that might repel some purists on either side of the country-and-rap divide, but will knock the socks off just about everybody else.” - Wall Street Journal
“Rench and his friends have done nothing short of creating a new form of music. Gangstagrass takes two types of music that are opposites and mixes them together brilliantly in a way that is natural and enjoyable.” - Elmore Leonard
Gangstagrass Saturday, September 22 Tickets: $20 (Donation) Takoma Park VFW Post 350 6420 Orchard Ave. (near New Hampshire & Eastern aves.) EARLY show -- Doors open at 6 pm, show starts at 7 pm No BYOB (the bar will be open at the VFW) Please bring cash (credit cards not accepted)
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posted Mar 21, 2012, 11:20 AM by janet rumble
 SOLD OUT!
We do have a waiting list. To join it, please email us at treehouseconcert [at] gmail [dot] com with name, number of tickets desired, and phone number. Our shows are packed but you never know; sometimes folks can't make it. Our goal is to share the music and maximize support for the bands. Thanks!
TREE HOUSE DOUBLE HEADER!!!! EARLY 5 PM SHOW ADDED Due to popular demand, we are adding another show! The Honeycutters have graciously agreed to play an early show at 5 pm. We'll push back the later show to 8 pm (from 7 pm). See details below.
Straight out of Asheville, NC, to Takoma Park...the Honeycutters are playing at the Tree House on March 10th! Their music, an original brand of Americana, is driven by compelling lyrics and singer/songwriter Amanda Anne Platt's 'perfectly unadorned' and 'recklessly beautiful' voice. Lead guitarist and producer Peter James' seamless harmonies and tasteful instrumentation complement Platt's singing. We can't get enough of their first full length studio release 'Irene', and we're thrilled to host them at the Tree House.
The Honeycutters Saturday, March 10 Tickets: $17.50 (Donation) EARLY show - Doors open at 4 pm, show starts at 5 pm. LATE show - Doors open at 7 pm, show starts at 8 pm. Please note: Ticket holders for the previously scheduled 7 pm show now have tickets for the 8 pm show; if you'd like to switch your ticket to the 5 pm show, please email us. BYOB (and your love of Americana & country/blues!)
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posted Mar 7, 2012, 5:04 PM by janet rumble
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updated Jun 12, 2012, 6:55 AM by Tree House
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SOLD OUT!We do have a waiting list. To join it, please email us at treehouseconcert [at] gmail [dot] com with name, number of tickets desired, and phone number. Our shows are packed but you never know; sometimes folks can't make it. Our goal is to share the music and maximize support for the bands. Thanks!
It’s been a few years since Dave Bielanko and Christine Smith of the folk-punk/roots-rock band Marah landed in the central Pennsylvania countryside, hunkered down in a farmhouse amid the academics, the Amish, and the ATV crowd. Since releasing their critically acclaimed record Life is a Problem in 2010, the two have put down some roots, literally and figuratively, and have birthed a few more projects -- not to mention a litter of goats. Later this spring, they’ll release not one but two new records. Although very different in character, both were crafted the old fashioned way on reels of tape, with a little help from rubbing alcohol, razor blades, and Q-tips. One is a collection of new songs, the other has been dubbed the Mountain Minstrelsy project and stems from forgotten song fragments and lyrics from their neck of the woods documented in a book of the same name by Henry W. Shoemaker in 1931. We here at the Tree House cannot wait to hear what Dave and Christine have been up to, and it’s all gonna go down at our satellite location at the VFW. "Rough-edged folk-rock in the mode of Bob Dylan's
'The Basement Tapes.'" -- Washington Post
"Triumphant and melancholy... an anthem for
farmhands and factory workers." -- Stereogum
"Yearning, weary choruses caked with nicotine and
beer bottle sweat rings. Bielanko's way with a word works in just about any
musical idiom." -- Austin American Statesman
"Soulful Americana garage-rock...the band remains as
ambitious as ever" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
Saturday, April 14 Tickets: $20 (donation*) Takoma Park VFW Post 350 6420 Orchard Ave. (near New Hampshire & Eastern) Doors open at 7:00 pm, show starts at 8:00 pm No BYOB (the bar will be open at the VFW) Please bring cash (credit cards not accepted)
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posted Feb 15, 2012, 7:44 AM by janet rumble
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updated Jun 12, 2012, 6:52 AM by Tree House
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We do have a waiting list. To join it, please email us at treehouseconcert [at] gmail [dot] com with name, number of tickets desired, and phone number. Our shows are packed but you never know; sometimes folks can't make it. Our goal is to share the music and maximize support for the bands. Thanks!
The Dirty Names are rarely mentioned without a reference to the Rolling Stones,
and truth to tell there is a bit of Jagger swagger there. But these guys have
the chops to back it up, and we’re all in for a spectacularly high energy evening. Needless
to say, this is no sit-down show, folks, so we’re taking it to the VFW (thanks
to everyone at the VFW -- again! -- for being so welcoming to us). Takoma Park’s VFW Post
350 is located just a few blocks from the Tree House, and since it's a slightly
larger venue, it enables us to host a few more people. Plus, they have a bar! (So
no BYOB this time.) And it's got a great vibe and the show is still very much a
Tree House event.
"So visceral, so pleasantly nasty, so simultaneously emotive and cool." -- Mountain Xpress "This is turn up the volume, blow-out-the-dust, drive-with-your-windows-down music." -- Big Medicine "These guys have not only the skill, but the moxy needed to bring it home." -- DC Rock Live Dirty Names Saturday, April 21 Tickets: $17.50 (donation*) Takoma Park VFW Post 350 6420 Orchard Ave. (
near New Hampshire & Eastern) Doors open at 7:00 pm, show starts at 8:00 pm No BYOB (the bar will be open at the VFW) Please bring cash (no credit cards accepted)
* All proceeds, minus expenses, go to the artists http://www.thedirtynames.com/
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