Will Bradford (SeepeopleS) + Looms (solo) + Sparxsea + Whitney Walker at Hi-Fidelity
Schedule
Wed Jan 29 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Hi-Fidelity Beer | Portland, ME | Portland, ME
6:30 pm | $10 suggested donation | ABOUT WILL BRADFORD (SEEPEOPLES, THEWORST):
Will Bradford is the band leader and songwriter for the national touring act SeepeopleS. (as well as bassist for touring act, TheWorst). SeepeopleS was formed in 2000 in Boston MA, the band has toured ceaselessly since its inception, playing some 1500 + shows across the country, and releasing seven studio albums to wide critical acclaim. Some of the records include contributions from members of Morph*ne, Spearhead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Parliament Funkadelic and Tim Reynolds (Dave Matthews Band). As a solo performer, Bradford has toured with Tim Reynolds and Brian Vanderark (Verve Pipe) and has shared the stage with the likes of Chris Barron (Spin Doctors), Michael Glabecki (Rusted Root), and the 10,000 Maniacs, to name a short-few. In 2017 he was nominated for "Best Songwriter" (2017) for the Portland Phoenix Awards. In the past, his band SeepeopleS has been nominated for an Independent Music Award (2017), Relix Award (Best New Artist 2007) and New England Music Award (Best Live Act 2016-17), and his music has been featured on TNT (Judging Amy), ABC (The Gates), NASCAR, Discovery Channel, and in such movies as Canvasman, Wheels Over Paradise and The Legend Of Cody Collins, as well as three SeepeopleS songs that were featured in the Headcount voting documentary Call To Action. SeepeopleS also has the dubious honor of being the first band to have their music video removed and banned by Facebook / Instagram after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The video, 'New American Dream,' which won the 2017 Platinum Pixie award for Best Animation, was created by Peter List, best known for his work on the cult-hit MTV show Celebrity Deathmatch and Marilyn Manson's 'Astonishing Panorama Of The End Times.' With the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent shutdown across the music industry, and his usual and constant national touring schedule coming to an abrupt halt, Bradford has been focusing on finishing the eighth SeepeopleS studio album with long time co-producer Will Holland (Pixies, Fall Out Boy, Dead Can Dance), working, rehearsing and recording with his other band TheWorst (who are currently finishing their second full length album with Will Holland), and running his non-profit record label, CommunityZ RecordZ. For more info please visit:
SOLO.TO/SEEPEOPLES
ABOUT SPARXSEA:
Sparxsea is an indie artist from Maine with a soulful voice and dark story of hope. Her music is critically acclaimed, defining her as a genre-bending, dynamic, and accomplished songsmith who is thought-provoking, engaging, and alchemic. Her debut full-length album, On the Sea, was released in 2024 to wide critical acclaim, and features members of The Dave Matthews Band, Morph*ne, SeepeopleS, and is co-produced by Will Holland (Pixies, Dead Can Dance) at Chillhouse Studios in Boston. For more info please visit: SOLO.TO/SPARXSEA
ABOUT LOOMS:
Looms has been a staple of Americana indie rock in Brooklyn, NY for the past decade. Their sound, an ever evolving palette of shifting landscapes of the heart, is flanked by a wall of sound of guitars, keyboards and precision drumming. They've played countless shows and collaborated with members of Wilco in the past. The new EP 'The Dogs of Doubt' is out now. For more info please visit: loomsmusicnyc.com
ABOUT WHITNEY WALKER
Whitney Walker began his music career playing gutter blues in the Pacific Northwest during the mid nineties. His early band, Pay The Coyote, cut their teeth in the local dive bar circuit, then Walker has spent the last couple of decades playing countless solo shows throughout the country and in almost as many bands (Happy Inside, Dixon Bendego Trash, Arthur C. Lee & Whit Walker, For Morning). In 2005, Walker's life veered way off track when he began using drugs, which led to a life-long addiction struggle, divorce, custody battles, and even gang violence. His life went so far off track that by 2009, Walker found himself homeless in Portland, Oregon, living under an overcoat in Laurelhurst Park. This pattern would continue throughout Walker's adult life. His experience with homelessness inspired the song "Reverse Cowboy," which was written as an ode to the 'King Of the Homeless', a legendary transient in Portland, whose nose was broken seventeen times as Whit was told from the the King's mouth (the King being "Cowboy").
Whitney's life brought him front and center to the suffering of the destitute, the junkies and the addicts, the thieves and even the gangsters. His music career ultimately became fully derailed when Whit's life became occupied with a steady stream of tribulations, trials, and tragedies, all of which would finally, after many years, become the foundation for Whitney’s new material, but his battle took a turn for the worst in 2009 when he attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the heart multiple times, leading to two open heart surgeries and a month-long coma.
Walker was finally able to turn his life around in 2011 by getting sober. He then became a social worker and now helps addicts find treatment and rehabilitation. Because of his own personal struggles with mental illness, he holds an active position in the Portland, Maine community through assisting the destitute. In 2014, Walker became friends with Will Bradford, bandleader of SeepeopleS, and during the recent Covid lockdown, Bradford and his band mates, alongside Whit's current bandmates and extended musical family (including legendary baritone saxophonist, Dana Colley of Morph*ne), helped him bring his songs to life.
Whitney Walker released his album A Dog Staring Into A Mirror On The Floor to wide critical acclaim.(RascalZ RecordZ, 2023). For more info on Whitney Walker please visit: solo.to/whitneywalker
