COUNTERCURRENT - "Flow" Album Release ~ Live in Portland, OR

Name: COUNTERCURRENT - "Flow" Album Release ~ Live in Portland, OR
Start: 2025-03-06T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Inner SE Portland

Schedule

Thu, 06 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Inner SE Portland | Portland, OR

What :: House Concert in SE Portland, OR featuring ~ COUNTERCURRENT "Flow" Album release
When :: THURS MARCH 6, 2025 (7:30 PM Performance / 6:30 Potluck)
Where :: Inner SE Portland, OR. RSVP to [email protected] for directions and to reserve!
Cost :: Suggested donation $25 or what you can. All proceeds go to the artists!
Reserve :: https://www.froggie.com/reserve-seats
Contact :: Abbie Weisenbloom/ [email protected] / www.froggie.com
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Also, we will be live streaming the show here --> Details can be found here froggie.com/livestream.
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Countercurrent ("Flow" album RELEASE) ~ (Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay ) ~ Fiddle / Guitar / Foot percussion / Harmony Vocals
Celebrating the release of their new album Flow, produced by McKain Lakey and featuring almost entirely original tunes!
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Countercurrent is a powerhouse acoustic folk duo based in Olympia, Washington, featuring driving guitar, lyrical fiddle, harmony vocals, and foot percussion. Bringing the deep drive of dance music to every performance, their arrangements blend both traditional and modern influences with astounding musicianship and fluency. They have achieved nationwide acclaim for their high-energy style, which draws on deep traditional roots from Ireland and North America while incorporating new influences to create a sound that is at once unique and timeless. A repertoire of songs that includes potent contemporary anthems, trad ballads, old-time hollers, and biting political content leaves no room for boredom. Alex’s driving guitar and gifted songwriting, Brian’s lyrical fiddle and rock-solid foot percussion, and the duo’s lively interplay, tight vocal harmonies, and unstoppable groove make a Countercurrent performance an event unlike any other. Wherever they go, the question remains the same: “How does that much sound come from just two people?”
Performing together since 2009, they have played at such venues as Club Passim (Cambridge,MA) The Freight and Salvage (Berkeley,CA), The Flurry Festival (Saratoga Springs, NY), and have frequently been the closing band for The Northwest Folklife Festival (Seattle, WA). Countercurrent is one of the most in-demand bands for contra dance weekends and camps across the country. Being highly collaborative musicians, Alex and Brian are part of several other bands (together or separately) including One Dollar Whiskey, Gallimaufry, The Iona Fyfe Trio, The Engine Room, Dear Crow, and others. Alex Sturbaum is a songwriting sensation, gaining notoriety across the continent for their work bringing visibility and queer representation in newly composed trad folk songs. Brian Lindsay is also one of the region’s top sound engineers for acoustic performances and recordings, and uses his expertise to ensure that every Countercurrent performance is a stellar auditory experience.
Countercurrent’s 2023 album “Not So But Far Otherwise” is a testament to the pair’s broad musical vision, featuring lush arrangements of songs and tunes that represent the best of the prior three years of polished material. Critical reviews include: “The new Countercurrent album is so maddeningly good it makes me want to push over a heavy bookshelf.” (Sam Bartlett) and “One word covers the entire breadth of this recording and its artists Brian Lindsay and Alex Sturbaum: Masterful! From the percussive drive of the opening track (Master Crowley’s/Asturian Way) to the plaintive beauty of the last cut (Two Rivers), this recording has it all, delivered across several traditional genres with remarkable expertise on all instruments” (Susan Songer).
Countercurrent is a truly genre-bending experience, rooted firmly in the traditional music of the Celtic Isles and America; music that lifts you up and charges fearlessly into the future of folk music.
Visit: https://countercurrentmusic.com
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