Date: 2016-03-10
NYC Bluegrass with Cricket Tell the Weather
NYC based string band Cricket Tell the Weather, will be bringing their original, independent take on bluegrass and folk to Framingham, MA on Friday, March 11th, at 8:00pm for the Amazing Things Arts Center. The heart of the singer-songwriter meets the pulse of the bluegrass world in the Brooklyn-based project Cricket Tell the Weather, described by the Boston Globe as “drawing inspiration from a handful of sepia-toned styles, but playing original songs to showcase a contemporary voice.” With fiddler/singer/songwriter Andrea Asprelli, at the helm, Cricket Tell the Weather showcases award-winning original songs delivered with honest vocals and supported by some of NYC’s finest acoustic roots musicians. Winners of the 2013 FreshGrass Award, Cricket has toured throughout the Northeast US since releasing their self-titled debut album last year. Cricket’s second album, composed of original, contemporary songs with an independent bluegrass and old-time feel, is due out this summer. Asprelli came to the east coast from Colorado’s front range. A classical musician from an early age, she was introduced to folk and traditional music while studying in Canterbury, England. She came back to the states to find a lush community of folk and bluegrass musicians, and found many homes within them throughout New York and New England that supported and nurtured her as a songwriter, vocalist, and fiddler. In 2011, she won the Podunk Bluegrass Songwriting Competition for her co-written song “Remington,” the opening track of Cricket’s debut album. Now based in the burgeoning bluegrass scene of NYC, she brings with her a rotating cast of some of the city’s finest acoustic roots musicians with backgrounds in bluegrass, old-time, and jazz. Cricket Tell the Weather has toured much of the northeast and mid-Atlantic, finding a home in the bluegrass and folk worlds alike “[Asprelli’s] contemporary spin on inherited forms is very much part of the American musical tradition.” – Jeremy Goodwin, The Boston Globe “[Asprelli’s] down-to-earth, unaffected vocal delivery is refreshing, and both Jeff Picker’s and Goldstein’s solo[s] will give you chills. ” – New York Music Daily
More Info: http://amazingthings.org/event/cricket-tell-the-weather/