Preview: Spirit Family Reunion at The Frequency, May 19, 2013

This Sunday Night (May 19, 2013) Spirit Family Reunion will play Madison’s intimate club, The Frequency. Strangers and neighbors come to rejoice in the sound, and there is no divide between performer and spectator. Don’t miss this show…

Spirit family reunion is like listening to a family jamming on your porch and having the time of your life.

Spirit Family Reunion play homegrown American music to stomp, clap, shake and holler with. Ever since they started singing together on the street corners, farmer’s markets and subway stations of New York City, their songs have rung-out in a pure and timeless way. When Spirit Family Reunion gather to sing, there is communion. Strangers and neighbors come to rejoice in the sound, and there is no divide between performer and spectator.

In a strange barroom or a grand music hall, at a barn dance or on the sunny street corner, Spirit Family Reunion keep the book open, and that old familiar feeling that was almost lost is again new.

“Dusty acoustic guitars, wailing fiddles and weeping accordions, with a woozy-yet-skintight rhythm section– and topped off with burr-edged vocals that sound like they’ve been soaked in a Mason jar for generations — it’s the type of music that blurs the line between past and present so thoroughly, and so deftly, that time feels irrelevant.”

-Paste Magazine Best of What’s Next