The Quilcene Lantern is proud to present Jeremy Ferrara, Conor Kenehan, and Elijah Sussman.

6pm doors, 7pm music

$10-25

All Ages

"Certainty and clarity are like everything else, yeah, they come and go." These are the kind of gentle reminders you get when you listen to Portland songwriter Jeremy Ferrara. Regarded as “open-hearted and determinedly honest” byAmericana UK, and as “exuding as much gentleness and vulnerability as anything in Nick Drake’s catalog” by Americana Highways, Ferrara has had a storied first few years. Opening forJohn Craigie, Field Medic, touring theUS andEuropemultiple times, and signing to a label, all while working as the guitarist in fellow rising star Margo Cilker’s touring band. Rarely do folk songwriters remain as centered, as earnest, and as entertaining. Ferrara comes through on his latest Darkness Is A Bright Sound with a full band heralding his philosophical delivery of songs full of gentle acceptance, and purified positivity.

On Ferrara’s last effort, his deft fretwork, and comforting chord choices often found the way to front and center of the sound. Recorded with Mike Coykendall, and released on cassette tape, the album perfectly captured the folk-essence Ferrara exudes. The precision with which he plays every single note becomes mesmerizing. His gentle voice lulls you into a liminal listening space, where his etudes do the work of examining life for you. On Darkness Is A Bright Sound we get the full band effort we’ve been craving from Ferrara. To help capture that sound he enlisted producer Luke Temple(Adrianne Lenker, Hand Habits), recorded at Altamira Sound in Los Angeles, and had the album mastered by Jon Neufeld.

The resulting album benefits from Temple’s near imperceptible, complimentary bass and synth, and blows in like the breeze. The disarming title track opens the album to find Ferrara at work, tenderly demonstrating that “nothing is truly defined,” and if we –or the world– are ever able to be defined, it will be by many sides, many things, not one. With our focus shifted, our balance found, it’s easy to follow Ferrara into Darkness Is A Bright Sound.

For Ferrara, the “certainty and clarity” that come and go on the track “Come And Go” are life changes, and parts of him that he’s outgrown. His fidelity allows no fury, however, he’s simply accepting the now.

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