R) Enjoy the sweet tunes
U) And fun friendship vibes
S) Of the Decemberists at Britt
H) Come kick it on our blanket
MORE ‘UNDER THE STARS’ DETAILS:
The Rushmore Society, your real life Social Network of Very Busy People, invite all to join us for an evening under the stars in Jacksonville as we take in the Decemberists at the Britt Festival.
The group was one of the most unique bands to surface in the 2000s. They infuse their songs with a warm, woodsy tunefulness, which make the narratives they create go down easy, and have earned them many loyal listeners.
Plus, they are straight outta Portland
WHO: All welcome to join
VIBE: Fun, social, friendship
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The Decemberists treat high-concept nerd-dom like their one true calling. Writing story-songs about forest queens and evil rakes, naming one of their albums (2005’s Picaresque) after an obscure form of fiction, and generally making liberal use of their liberal arts educations, the group were one of the most unique bands to surface in the 2000s. It helped that they infused their songs with a warm, woodsy tunefulness, which made the narratives go down easier and earned them loyal listeners.
The band formed in Portland, Oregon at the turn of the millennium. Led by singer Colin Meloy, whose strong lyricism and vivid storytelling served as the backbone for the band, the Decemberists came together when Meloy left his native Montana and his former band Tarkio for the musically emerging Portland scene, eventually teaming with bassist Nate Query and multi-instrumentalist Jenny Conlin. The addition of guitarist Chris Funk soon followed.
The Decemberists’ breakthrough came in 2005 with Picaresque, a musical folk-rock voyage with Meloy’s storytelling exploring the moral ruins of a corrupted society, including tales of a murder in the belly of a whale, runaway prostitutes and the album’s double-suicide denouement. “Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy has never been shy about the Morrissey and Melville inside his melodies,” Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke wrote in his review of Picaresque.
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