Member Since: 12/17/2006
Band Members: This is music to make you come to your senses. Vespertina is an umbrella name for Annabeth McNamara's musical shenanigans and anyone else who happens to join in on the fun, including but not limited to : An Awful Lot of Ocelots (the Catalyst house band, kinda like a house salad), and Owl Medicine (Rayanne). I often indulge in delusions of grandeur, fancying myself a rockstar. I putz about with vocals, banjo, guitar, keys, and riverstones, glass jars, nickels and dimes. I've even been known to tapdance on washtubs while whispering. Most of my songs will untie the knots in your stomach and shush you to sleep. Some of my songs will enchant you beyond your better judgment. Some of my songs will get lodged in your brain, some will drive you crazy, and one or two will change your life or set you free... I like my music spontaneous, freeflowing, organic, and relaxed, specifically set in the late dusk. ----- I believe in a rebirth of culture where everyone recognizes their instinctual need to create art and song. I imagine a world where being a musician is a wholesome, sustainable livelihood grounded in local place and community. No need for CDs because music is everywhere, live and welling out of the gutters, down from the windows, deep in the park. Alleluia.
Influences: Jollie Holland, Rising Appalachia, Feist, Gillian Welch, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsome, Be Good Tanyas, Indigo Girls, Songs: Ohia, Tin Tree Factory, Riotfolk Collective, Phil Jamison. Autumn in Asheville, the Blue Ridge mountains, Dry River, unrequited love, the Sonoran desert, hitchhiking and mexican jail, bicycle touring and the pacific coast, and the great mystery.
Sounds Like: peering through a keyhole at the last light of sunset. the shadowy sound of bat wings fluttering gently near your ears. the lone call of the owl in the pitch black of new moon. the almost imperceptible tissue-paper rustle of night blossoms opening. the crazed coyote call.
Record Label: D.I.Y. and D.I.T.
Type of Label: Indie