You've heard about it, you know you want to check it out. Welp, grab your sweetheart and come on up to the last show of the month at the Barrage. Fans of Talking Heads, Nick Cave, Weezer or Neil Young's "American Stars 'n Bars" will dig this show.

The Mountain Carol - Initially taking form via two reclusive childhood friends from the backwater town of Saranac, New York. Guitarist Austtin Petrashune returned home from Hong Kong where he had spent years playing the fiddle while, in the middle of the woods down the road, songwriter Charles Wilson had forsaken drums in favor of channeling his imagination through the piano and a broken Casio keyboard. After a fruitful period of personal and musical reconnection, the band found its ideal balance when they reached out to local impresario Matt Hall, a multi-talented Syracuse-cum-Plattsburgh fixture known for his many independent musical releases. While the band's whimsical self-titled EP and debut album were released in a straightforward manner, The Mountain Carol seems intent on expanding the conventional role of a band.

Rory Strong & The Standard Candles - Portland Maine's finest purveyors of solid garage rock. With fist pumping anthems like "wet dog" and tender songs like "and this whole time i thought we were talking hypotheticals" these beasts of portland will deliver a great show.
https://rorystrongband.bandcamp.com/

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doors: 7ish
done: 10ish

b.y.o.be responsible
all ages and stars & stripes
10$ tickets at door or online

follow the signs saying "rock and roll" near Stearns Brook Road in beautiful Holland, Vermont, the last exit in america.