indie folk

John Shakespear is a songwriter from Cambridge, currently splitting time between Brooklyn and Boston. His debut solo album, Spend Your Youth, caught the attention of WBUR and American Songwriter, earning comparisons to the work of Elliott Smith and Fleet Foxes. Influenced by the eye for detail and character that defines his other art as a fiction writer, he crafts songs and albums that are worlds of their own. www.johnshakespear.com

65 Belmont schedule:
2-2:30 Lemon Louis
2:30-3 John Shakespear
3-3:30 Lemon Louis
3:30-4 John Shakespear

A rag tag gang of folks who met by chance and decided they could make it in the Porchfest big leagues if they just practiced a couple times.

Playing a mix of covers, originals, and instrumental jams. Guitar, Violin, Drums, Vocals, Bass, & keys. We're going to try and span the spectrum of multiple genres, but you could say that singer/songwriter folk is the core sound. We will dabble in some funk, some indie, and even maybe an Irish hymn!

Potential guest appearance by actual gigging musician Christina Lacoste of Lady Lupine.

Indie Folk

Have you ever wondered what a band drawing heavily from "Rumors"-era Fleetwood Mac, Lucinda Williams, Big Star, and even some "Exile on Main Street"-era Rolling Stones might sound like?  Even if you haven't, you have to admit that this a potentially amazing mix, yes?  We take you to the place where love has died and then we sit at the bar with you and write songs about it--but melodic and catchy songs. Some other recent highlights include our nomination for a 2018 and 2019 Boston Music Award in the "Best Country Act" category, as well as making it to the semi-finals in Boston's famed "Rock & Roll Rumble".  

Cambridge native and indie-folk songwriter John Shakespear has performed all around the United States, sharing the stage with acts such as Henry Jamison and Lewis del Mar. American Songwriter Magazine described his debut solo record, Spend Your Youth, as "reminiscent of Fleet Foxes and Elliott Smith,” and WBUR called it "an antidote to a dire national mood." With a persevering warmth that transcends national and political boundaries, Shakespear has written a coming-of-age record tinged by the times.

Since releasing their self-titled debut in 2007, Boston's The Grownup Noise have evolved into a rousing and innovative pop-music outfit, bridging the gap between Americana music and Indie Rock. With a genuine respect for every style of music, this band and its songwriter, Paul Hansen, are song obsessed. 

Strangers by Accident are an authentic, energetic indie-folk-rock act with an old-school respect for songwriting. The band’s lyrically driven songs feature three-part harmonies and veer from suitcase-stomping acoustic, to snare-pounding electric, to minimalist folk. Catch a Dinosaur is a psychedelic rock party that will get you dancing. Come for the music, stay for the hot dogs and painting!

Modern Painters is an autobiographical coming-of-age myth chronicling the Sartrean situation of a present-day American youth. Prodded ever-forward in a world characterized by competing dogmas, nihilist hedonism, and a deconstructionist “unmasking of” a society once steadfast in its ways, Painters is concerned less with the contemporary state of being-in-the-world than with the process of the creative act within it.

Hope & Things: 12:00PM

Hope & Things is an indie rock band blending retrospective lyrics with lush atmospheres and driving grooves. His debut EP "Illusionary" covers the pains, doubts, hopes, and questions of a reflective life.

https://spoti.fi/2pRcIF8

Strangers by Accident: 12:55PM

Hailing from Boston, Strangers by Accident are an authentic, energetic indie-folk act with an old-school respect for songwriting. The band’s lyrically driven songs feature three-part harmonies and veer from suitcase-stomping acoustic, to snare-pounding electric, to minimalist folk.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0oaYIKisN8mPCSRdsiooSI

All Kids Down consists of Jesse Kurn on tenor uke/vox and Sean Griffith on piano. The two played in a prior band, The Corey Road Band (2008-2010). All Kids Down formed in 2015 and consist of songs written to reflect their work in human services and mental health. Jesse is a mental health counselor and Sean is a lawyer who represents children in DCF. Their lyricism reflects their day jobs while their music is catchy, poppy, and with solid melodies that run juxtapose to the lyrics. Sean and Jesse meet at night to practice after Jesse puts his 2 children to bed, which gave us the name "All Kids Down".