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All Ears Listening Sessions' premiere concert at Forage features Luke Callen and The Band out of Minneapolis and Long Mama of Milwaukee on February 24th at 8pm.
“All Ears” meaning deep listening, is something we as a society struggle to practice, but is the main feature of these sessions. It’s a small chunk of time to release, reflect, and drink in those performing and presenting their gifts. We aim to procure a completely live show with live audience, video and audio recording, and unaltered space soundscape.
At the intersection of Harry Smith’s Old Weird America – the songs of heartworn highways – and the tumult of today you can find the music of Luke Callen. The songs – equal parts tragic comedy and hopeless reverie – paint a picture of the places and people that make up his earthly home. A poet – a player – a folk singer – Luke has traversed his country unraveling tall tales – short tunes and all that’s hidden underneath. Milwaukee singer-songwriter Kat Wodtke leads Andrew Koenig (guitar), Nick Lang (drums), Gavin Hardy (bass), and Eva Nimmer (vocals) on this western journey of wide open spaces & tight spots, each song shimmering with honesty, heart, and grit.
Long Mama's music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you can find songwriter Kat Wodtke (Wood-key) raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. Long Mama's debut album, Poor Pretender, was featured in No Depression's Now Hear This round-up and has been called "a winner all the way" (Country Music People Magazine) and "gently crafted perfection" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Engineered by Erik Koskinen and recorded live over a long, snowy weekend in Cleveland, MN, the record showcases the band’s particular ability to conjure the beautiful in the broken, the silver in the ore. The ten-song collection’s palette of folk, country, indie rock, and punk reflects its makers’ coming-of-age in the rustbelt crossroads of north, south, east, and west.
Tickets $20 online // $25 Day of Show. Doors open at 7:30pm, show at 8pm.