ShortGrass Music Festival Concert with “Steep Ravine”

The ShortGrass Music Festival continues to present live music in the greater Cimarron area with the band STEEP RAVINE on Friday, September 18th at 7pm at the Kit Carson Museum/Rayado at Philmont Scout Ranch. Tickets $10.00 (under 18 Free).

Blending equal parts poetic lyricism and string-playing ingenuity, STEEP RAVINE’S soulful tunes and sinewy instrumentals are pushing the indie folk, Americana, and jazz groove in compelling new stylistic directions. The band came on strong to the music scene in late 2013 with the release of their debut album of originals, Trampin’ On. Within a month, the album started racking up reviews and receiving lots of airplay, making it onto the Radio DJ Folk Music Chart of Top Albums and Songs for January 2014.

Since then, Steep Ravine has gained steady recognition and embarked on two national tours, with notable appearances at such esteemed venues as Strawberry Music Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Four Corners Folk Festival, Northwest String Summit, Redwood Ramble, and Pickamania. The band has also been featured live on multiple radio stations including NPR’s West Coast Live. Band mates SIMON LINSTEADT (principal songwriter, guitar, banjo, mandolin, lead vocals), JAN PURAT (violin, vocals), and ALEX BICE (bass, percussion, drums, vocals) form the core of the band. Linsteadt and Purat began playing music together back in high school in Northern California, later moving on to study music at the California Jazz Conservatory and UC Santa Cruz, where they fortuitously met Bice in 2012.

Writes Bluegrass Unlimited: “Fronted by the clear wispy tenor voice of Simon Linsteadt, it’s hard not to be struck immediately by the freshness of this band’s material and approach… weaving threads of wistful heartache and longing into images of natural beauty and wonder, all infused with threads of bluegrass, swing, and even traces of pop/folk into a collection that’s full of sweet surprises. Built on a solid foundation of gifted songwriting, fine singing, and acoustic string dexterity, they may well be opening up a whole new stylistic direction for musicians and listeners alike to follow.”

 In early 2015, the trio returned to John Vanderslice’s renowned San Francisco-based analog recording studio Tiny Telephone to record their second album of originals, The Pedestrian. Crowd-funded in the first week of a PledgeMusic campaign by a surge of fan support, the ten genre-bending tracks take a creative leap from the first album with the addition of percussion and drums, and delve deeper into the psychedelic folk and jazz realms, rich and ambitious in harmonic and rhythmic complexity. The new album is set to be released this summer on both CD and vinyl.
www.steepravine.com

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