Live at Loft 129 - Stripmall Ballads & Tanner Bingaman

Name: Live at Loft 129 - Stripmall Ballads & Tanner Bingaman
Start: 2025-02-07T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Loft 129

Schedule

Fri, 07 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Loft 129 | Cumberland, MD

Live at Loft 129 in Cumberland, MD
Stripmall Ballads & Tanner Bingaman
Friday, February, 7th
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
Tickets:
https://loft129.org/events/stripmall-ballads-tanner-bingaman
STRIPMALL BALLADS:
Phillips Saylor Wisor - aka STRIPMALL BALLADS - is a Maryland-based rollicking musical rambler, rife with story-songs rich in emotion and hardihood. His brand of folk music sings the heartbreaking ballads of old brick buildings, vacant lots, and rustbelt towns. Of third shift papas, flood plains, and long drives through nowhere towns. He’s boots on the ground, guitar across the body, ever observing the ugly mundane mixed with the beautiful chaos of this place we trample upon on the daily.
He’s shared stages with Tommy Price, John R. Miller, Danny Barnes, Les Claypool, The Be Good Tanyas, Willy Tea Taylor, just to name a few. In his early days, Wisor found comfort in DC’s encampments searching for validation in the gritty corners of tucked away spaces. Where street people applauded and encouraged as he picked away, a rustling sound of Americana and folk, with boozed-up night chatter for background noise.
As founding member of The Shiftless Rounders, Phillips dove deep into the Appalachian ocean of old time banjo and balladry. And as a fervent practitioner of Shape Note music, he has spent countless hours singing in the “old way” and devouring the harmonic notions of American roots music. With a nod to Woody Guthrie, Phillips deploys all these influences in his music. Stripmall Ballads is a testament to the enduring power of painting experience with emotion, forever a voice of the strange amongst strangers.
TANNER BINGAMAN:
Tanner Bingaman is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (guitar/banjo/harmonica), poet, and producer from rural Pennsylvania who spends his time foraging writhing folk art from the hills of Appalachia. He prefers barefoot walking and once saved the family dog from a rattlesnake. Tanner's debut record, “Everything & Nothing” by Tanner Bingaman's Pretty Big Garden is now streaming everywhere and available on limited edition vinyl, CD, and cassette. The album explores sonic territory from raw field recordings to polished pop gems, pulling from a wealth of influences spanning indie-folk to ambient to Indian classical, featuring a wild range of tonalities and instrumentation. Think Pinegrove meets Tyler Childers with a touch of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones; the sound of writhing folk forged from Appalachian mud.