TWISTED PINE
One pair of tickets
GA Standing Room
Place: The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Time: Saturday 11/30/2024, 8:00pm (doors at 7:00pm)
https://www.sinclaircambridge.com/events

On vinyl and on stage, the sound of Twisted Pine is unmistakable, exuberant, daring.

What started as a (semi-)traditional bluegrass band in the trenches of the storied folk, bluegrass, and Americana scene in Boston a decade ago has bloomed into an ensemble of players who shapeshift across genres. Even the expansive “progressive bluegrass” label doesn’t come close to capturing their musical scope.

Chris Sartori’s upright bass anchors everything with an undeniable, articulate groove. Dan Bui’s mandolin is thick, crisp, and propulsive. Kathleen Parks’ fiddle and Anh Phung’s flute are at constant play, often augmented with effects pedals for layered musical textures, psychedelic sounds, and wild solo trading, somewhere in the territory between bluegrass and jazz. Out in front of the ensemble, Parks’ lead vocals are an instrument unto herself: equal parts mystery, power, haunt, and a search for the edges. And she’s surrounded on all sides by the voices of her bandmates, who bring on whatever harmonies, unities, whistles, and howls the night requires.

” … Progressive bluegrass or maybe chamber folk, or prog rock, or jazz fusion or just pop with an experimental bent. Whatever the genre, give the group a bluegrass Grammy for good measure — The Boston Herald

” … Bridges the passion of R&B with stellar acoustic musicianship.” —WBUR

“They were once bluegrass,” writes The Boston Globe, “but … this Boston band has become something else, a wider version of string band, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still.”

“Twisted Pine doesn’t just break the rules, they rewrite them.” — Glide

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