Indie

Faith-inspired music

Everything And Everyone is a band for the rest of us. Not-so-equal parts folk, surf, and indie rock, they want to rock YOUR socks off this year at Porchfest. Inhabitants of Waltham, Allston, Billerica, and of course Somerville, this band has its collective ear to the ground, churning out fun-timey rock and roll for people or all shapes, sizes, colors, and pizza topping preference. If you've ever watched The Adventures Of Pete And Pete then you already are in-tune to the concept behind Everything And Everyone. Terrible at writing band descriptions, but great at telling dad jokes, they hope that YOU will come check them out on Lowell Street on May 18th!

The Somerville Ukulele Club (SUC for short) is the winsome threesome of Elizabeth Hoey, Abby Taylor, and Ashley Holtgraver. On concert and tenor ukes, glockenspiel and synthesizer, we play music for the people, by the people. Swoon and shake to our covers of the Smiths, Velvet Underground, R. Kelly, the Las, Carly Rae Jepsen, etc...

You'll also be witness to such original athletic lyricism as:
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot off the grill in a toasty bun.
Hot dogs, hot dogs, once you see a hot dog you're having fun.

Come one, Come all, Come SUC with us!

Andrew Scandal is a singer and songwriter from Cambridge MA. Scandal combines indie-rock influences with electronic and soundscape sensibilities. Scandal has lived and performed in Cambridge, LA, NYC, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. Andrew is joined by The Lightyears, a three-piece backing band providing edgy rythms and catchy guitar hooks to Andrew's songs.

John Bragg (vocals, guitar), Linnea Herzog (bass), Denny Kennedy (drums), Charlie Ray (keyboards), and Brendan O'Brien (banjo) blend their varied musical influences into one cohesive sound that ranges from driving rock and roll to country and folk to ambient soundscapes. Formed in Allston, MA in mid-2009, their first album "Chalk" was released on August 8th, 2011. They are currently recording a new album.

The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is the world's only male-fronted, all-female, librarian-attired, downtempo, indie, ensemble-pop act featuring intricately constructed, tongue-in-cheek tortuous songs with an emphasis on narrative.

Genres: folk and indie rock, mostly acoustic; covers and originals.

Guitar & vocals: Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Martin Hunter

*** Special Guest: The Porch Party Mamas ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgtZbCNOxQ

When the Curtisian Late Show is picked up by a major TV network, we will be there to cheerily play the celebrity guest's theme song while they awkwardly cross the set, which is smaller in real life than it looks on TV.

Looking forward by keeping one eye on the past, Sam Spencer creates music that is equally rooted in contrapuntal theory, bebop jazz and 20th century pop with some other stuff thrown in for good measure. Porchfest 2012 will find him utilizing the upright bass, ukulele, banjo and more, though probably one instrument at a time.

Flightless Buttress: melding classical music with classic rock. Featuring John Nolan on guitar, and Calin Peters playing the cello (and if we are lucky the dulcimer). Note: Will be playing in the library's forecourt in the later afternoon, around 3pm.