AirLands “The Crane” EP Release w. special guest Courtney Hartman
AirLands "The Crane" EP Release with special guest Courtney Hartman
Saturday, November 27, 2021
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Show
$17 Advance General Admission
All Ages
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A musically magical winter night of dream-weaving and spell-casting. Minneapolis orchestral-indie band AirLands celebrates the release of their new EP and single, "The Crane." Opening the night is supreme specialist in sound & story, Eau Claire-based artist, Courtney Hartman.
AirLands is intimate - and then sometimes reaches for the burning sun.
There are drums, vocal harmonies, a cello, an alto sax, guitars, bass, and a french horn when it’s snowing.
There are more harmonies than shred but a tiny bit of shred in a soft way.
We call it soft shred.
I think drums are for mallets, but drummers tend to disagree.
Would definitely prefer to just hum and sing over blade-runner synths for 90 minutes, but that might lose it’s edge.
I like songs that are about both what a person knows and what a person doesn’t know and I’m sometimes trying to help but mainly just observing.
Fronted by Kevin Calaba (Stars of Track and Field), AirLands is adorned with cello and acoustic guitar (Dan Lawonn of Jeremy Messersmith), French horn and keys (Sarah Jane Perbix of Cloud Cult), synthesizer and Alto sax (Benjamin Cline), percussion (Jeremy Harvey of Cloud Cult), and layered harmonies (Marlena Calaba). Together, the band sweeps between intimate acoustic songs and reaching for a more epic folk sound, never staying in the same place for too long, lest their toes get cold.
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Courtney Hartman has never been one to linger long. A Colorado-born guitarist, singer, writer and producer, she is best known for her work beneath the surface, writing and recording with artists throughout the folk community. But with the release of her second album, Glade, Courtney is taking us with her into a world of her own making, with songs about home and abiding; pulling out the marrow of what makes us good and what makes us kin. Her own home is the beginning place for the questions set to song, held by the soundscapes of the valley where she spent her childhood.
After living for ten years on the east coast, Courtney made the decision in 2018 to leave the city and the band she was touring with and return home. “It is unnerving to carve out space when you don’t yet know what is meant to fill it,” Hartman recalls. She made a summer home in a Winnebago camper on her family’s property, an 8-acre farm on Glade Road in Loveland, CO. It was a simple season; tending to the land, mending ties and writing in the stillness of each morning. “Music during that time was a relationship I fumbled in. So I made a promise to myself - if writing didn’t bring healing or joy in some form, I could let it go.” But the songs came steadily, weaving together the pieces of herself she had forgotten.
The musical-well runs deep in Courtney’s family. As the third of ten children, she was picking up instruments in the house sooner than she could read, learning to sing harmonies to hymnal melodies with her older sisters and grandmother, and teaching her younger siblings to play. “There was chaos at home, to be sure, but music was something we could all do together. I think that was the reason it was so important to our parents that we learn from a young age.” Through her teens, Courtney led four of her siblings in a band, writing songs and booking shows at festivals and farmsteads throughout the country.