Paper Castles with Louisa Stancioff and Lisa/Liza

Oxbow Live: Paper Castles with Louisa Stancioff and Lisa/Liza

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| Paper Castles |

Paper Castles is the songwriting project and band fronted by Paddy Reagan and bolstered by drummer Brennan Mangan, guitarist Wren Kitz (a Sophomore Lounge and NNA Tapes recording artist), and bassist Emily Tompkins. Throughout its existence, PC has warmed Vermont stages for literally every single artist touring through, including Big Thief, Sheer Mag, Explosions in the Sky, Chris Cohen, Frankie Cosmos, William Tyler, Protomartyr, Pile, and The Wallflowers to name just a few.

Some background on their catalog: if 2011’s Bleating Heart had Reagan making sense of Bill Callahan and Jeff Tweedy’s respective songbooks, then 2013’s Vague Era had Reagan making sense of Pavement and Deerhunter’s respective sonics. Those poles were channelled into the DMZ of 2018’s Acceptionalism while upping the recording fidelity thanks to Ryan Power and Urian Hackney (Rough Francis, The Armed) behind the decks. 

“Avalon” is the group’s first new music since 2018’s Acceptionalism, released March 2025. Sipsman will release the next Paper Castles record later this year.

| Louisa Stancioff |

Born and raised in rural Maine, Stancioff has emerged as a gifted writer with a cinematic eye for richly detailed, emotionally-charged character studies. A nomadic soul who spent stints living in Alaska, California, New York, and North Carolina before returning home to Maine, Stancioff grew up learning traditional Bulgarian music from her paternal grandfather’s side of the family and reveled in singing American folk and roots tunes with her friends. Now settled in Warren, Maine, Stancioff released her debut album "When We Were Looking" in April 2024 with Yep Roc Records. She has toured it extensively through the US, opening for renown bands such as Darlingside, Blitzen Trapper and Pokey Lafarge.

| Lisa/Liza |

Lisa/Liza’s catalog spans ten years, with four albums on Orindal Records, a single released through Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass, and a spate of self-released home recordings. Her songwriting invites traditional folk guitar-playing and lyricism into dream-like domains, directing memory’s imperfections toward restoration and healing. 

On her latest album, Breaking and Mending, the heavy, open-ended waltzes of her past work assume a more linear form, as Lisa/Liza carries on her tradition of shedding light on personal trauma and life’s greater mysteries through song. Questions about love and the natural world are met with moments of clarity, sparked by recollections of Judee Sill or John Prine. Above all, Breaking and Mending deals in dualities and the beauty of self-reconstruction, as carefully underlined in the opening track, “Felt Twice”:

They tell me “the body minds,” 

they said that, the mind was the body, 

Well each time that I fell, 

I felt twice, What else can I tell everybody?

[$15 ADV/$17 DOS | Doors 730 PM | Show 8 PM]