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About Me

"It's always nice to act as door greeter and be like, "Welcome to town. Your music is beautiful. We love you very much." So, all that and more to recent transplants Ah Holly Fam'ly who are celebrating new kid on the block status by playing their first Portland show tonight at Valentine's. With nylon-stringed guitar, Rhodes, banjo, singing saw, bells, etc., Ah Holly Fam'ly builds this great rockpile of avant-Americana that's careful but solid. It's the kind of thing that's gentle (like Little Wings, Karl Blau) but isn't wimpy or shaky at all; everything is confident, balanced, and smart. So there. Welcome to town. Your music is beautiful. We love you very much." -PORTLAND MERCURY (September 2006)I edited my profile with .

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Music:

Member Since: 7/16/2005
Band Members: Becky Dawson, Jeff Diteman, Jeremy Faulkner, Morgan Hobart, Whitney Menzel
Influences: stoner metal, stoner jazz, stoner calypso, stoner rap, stoner bluegrass, stoner boner, stoner big band, stoner doilies, stoner reggae, stoner country-western, stoner yodeling, stoner Tibetan throat singing, stoner adult-contemporary Christian R&B, stoner maritime
Sounds Like: Sit down stand up soul vibe chamber folk. We live in NE PDX. All of us but Morgan moved here from Idaho. Fam'ly hearts harmonies, play-around sounds, sounds like wind, a volcano? If there was dissonance well we did it on purpose anyhow.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

horn playas, woodwinds

We want to meet horn players. And play with them.
Posted by Ah Holly Fam'ly on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:21:00 PST

We hope were haunted.

The other night Becky and I watched the Igmar Bergman film "Through a Glass Darkly," which I had checked out from the libary that day. The film is largely concerned with death, god, and the artist's r...
Posted by Ah Holly Fam'ly on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:14:00 PST