Bald Hill

New Gloucester Newgrass

Month: January 2015

Bald Hill to headline Feb. 28 ‘Cabin Fever Reliever’

January 20, 2015 /

 

BAND PHOTOGRAY, Maine — Bald Hill will perform on home turf, more or less, when it headlines the “Cabin Fever Reliever” fundraiser Saturday night, Feb. 28, at the American Legion Hall in Gray. The event, to benefit the Project Graduation effort at Gray-New Gloucester High School, will run from 7-11 p.m.

Tickets are $10 a head, $15 per couple. American Legion Post #86 is located at 15 Lewiston Road (aka, the combined routes 100/4/202), just north of Gray Center. Reserve tickets in advance by calling 207-232-2990, or emailing lsully1063@gmail.com

Project Graduation is an all-night, substance-free, chaperoned event held each year on graduation night — actually, through the night and into the next morning. Students vote on a destination of choice, and the entire high school community (students, parents and townsfolk) raises the requisite funds (over the course of several years) to make this fun, safe event happen, including transportation.

The Feb. 28 “Cabin Fever Reliever” fundraiser is an adult (21-and-over) event, and you know what that means: cash bar, in addition to snacks, raffles and door prizes. Plus music and dancing, of course, courtesy of New Gloucester-based Bald Hill.

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Bald Hill returns to Guthries, Friday, Feb. 13

January 9, 2015 /

DSC00076LEWISTON, Maine — Bald Hill will bring its singular bluegrass-inflected American roots sound (or, if you like, American roots-inflected bluegrass sound) back to Guthries in Lewiston on Friday night, Feb. 13.

Formally known as She Doesn’t Like Guthries Restaurant & Café, this coziest and most comfortable of music venues is located at 115 Middle St., just over the bridge from Auburn. Imagine an oversized living room with better beer and sound. Doors are open from 10 a.m.; this is a restaurant & café, after all (we recommend the burrito du jour). Bald Hill will take the stage at 8 p.m.

It’s fitting the band will make its 2015 debut at Guthries. The New Gloucester-based 5-piece has played here several times before, but it did so with a slightly different name. “The Bald Hill Boys” had inferred a more bluegrass-intensive set list than has become the case, of late. Guthries, a venue known better by its own truncated moniker, is the perfect place for Bald Hill to roll out the newgrass brand.

Traditional bluegrass fans should not despair, however. Expect selections from Tim O’Brien, Gillian Welch, John Hartford, the Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe. Just understand that Bald Hill will complement these songs with tunes from Son Volt, Richard Thompson, the Band, Old Crow Medicine Show and Tom Petty.

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