The Suitcase Junket with special guest Louisa Stancioff
November 21 @ 8:00 PM
Doors open an hour before showtime.
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The Suitcase Junket — Matt Lorenz — looks forward to returning to One Longfellow for a wide-ranging night
of new songs along with plenty from his six previous albums, including from the most recent The End is New from Renew Records/BMG.
The Suitcase Junket developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in thrift and self-reliance. NPR calls Matt Lorenz a “master of musical imagination.” What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man show bears comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention. While audiences are captivated by that solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. He writes a world into existence, crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet’s destruction and salvage.
“A living, breathing, throat-singing, road-tested, avant-garde, one-man-band who is in a state of perpetual motion… gutsy, fuzzed-out, groove-laden psych rock.” – National Public Radio
“Now this is the shit I’m talking about, Jack. The Suitcase Junket is a lo-fi, low-tuned, low-down blast of end-times folk blues. It’s crude; it’s magnificent. With a stage set-up that resembles a junkyard foley stage or Fred Sanford’s living room, The Suitcase Junket — one man band leader Matt Lorenz — incants and intones like a cross between Hound Dog Taylor and a Tuvan throat singer who has swallowed a bird. Take the singer-songwriter idiom, give it a low grade fever and a guitar and this is what you get. Captivating, mesmerizing, and gone … real gone.” – Rochester City Newspaper
“Jaw-dropping… It’s the biggest sound I’ve ever heard come from a solo performer. Matt is definitely his own thing and it is something. The live experience is pretty, darn unforgettable.” — Beale Street Caravan
“Bluesy guitar riffs, tenacious melodies and a singing voice both weathered and nimble. You don’t need to witness his physics-defying performance to be captivated; the music stands on its own… astonishing.” – WBUR Boston”Master of musical imagination” — NPR
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Louisa Stancioff
Songwriter and guitarist Louisa Stancioff has quickly established herself as one of the premier musical artists in Maine. Her intelligent and soulful writing pairs with a confident and catchy indie sound drawing on folk, rock, pop, and her own Balkan heritage. Born and raised in the foothills of Western Maine, Stancioff learned to entertain herself by singing songs with her sister and playing the piano, violin, guitar and any other instrument lying around the house. She moved through life nomadically in her early adulthood living in upstate New York, Western North Carolina, Montana and California, and gathering her songwriting material along the way. Currently settled in Midcoast Maine, she has toured this iteration of her indie folk n’ roll project all across the country, headlining and opening up for bands such as Blitzen Trapper, Pokey Lafarge, Micaela Davis, Darlingside and more. You can listen to her debut album “When We Were Looking” everywhere, released under Yep Roc Records last year.
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