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Loch Lomond, everyone else live on OPB

Thanks to Twitter, I was turned onto this live in-studio performance on OPB featuring Loch Lomond, and couldn't help but share.

Way back in May, I posted here about Loch Lomond, a chamber folk group from Portland headed by singer-songwriter Richie Young. Since then, the group has made a new EP (Night Bats, out this week) and Young has opened a new music venue in Portland called the Woods, which caters to the kind of hybridized, direction-forging music he and so many other Portlanders are making (Laura Gibson, Norfolk and Western, Shelley Short, anyone else on the Hush label, for that matter, their friends and collaborators).

Once you've listened to the full performance, I'd recommend clicking around the site for other sessions with pretty much everyone in the world. There's good stuff from the Avetts, Deer Tick, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Neko Case, Weinland, the Wooden Birds, and so many other fantastic whatever-that-is artists.

Tags: americana, chamberfolk, in-studio, live, lochlomond, muisc, nodepression, opb, portland, roots, More…singer-songwriters

Comment by Kyla Fairchild on November 6, 2009 at 6:54pm: Thanks for posting this Kim. I keep hearing about Loch Lomand but had not had an opportunity to listen to them yet. I'm going to be seeing them tomorrow night and looking forward to it. My friend Michael Heb, One Pot mastermind, put this series together:

Mozart, Hindemith, and Brahms are sadly losing relevancy by the day, symphony audiences are dropping, and “chamber music” is not a word you read on twitter.

Yet in the midst of this shift away from the classical repertoire, indie rock musicians like The Decemberists, Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, Loch Lomond, Portland Cello Project, and Jherek Bischof are thriving and incorporating chamber instruments, classical music sensibility and theory into their music--and filling clubs across the country doing it.

Night School at the Sorrento suggests that we spark a dialogue between these two related musical disciplines and combine classical chamber performances with those of indie rock darlings. Each “Chamber Vs. Chamber” evening will include multiple performances that culminate in a conversation between musicians and leaders in both the classical and indie rock universes. We will fill the Fireside Room at the Sorrento with music, people, cocktails, a roaring fire, and thoughtful conversation.

Our inaugural event combines performances by celebrated cellist and composer Lori Goldston, rising chamber indie rock stars Loch Lomond and cross-disciplinary veterans Spectratone. The evening’s conversation will be hosted by the Executive Editor of City Arts Magazine, Mark Baumgarten and classical music critic and historian Zach Carstensen (www.gathernote.com). To close the festivities, Loch Lomond and Spectratone will perform together. City Arts will capture video and produce films documenting each “Chamber Vs. Chamber” performance.