Terrapin Tuesday Series Featuring The Last Bison

Join us for the continuation of our popular Terrapin Tuesday Music Series! In addition to a $5 show with rising indie-folk act The Last Bison, we also offer $2 pints of delicious local Terrapin Brews! The Last Bison have been described as Mountaintop Chamber music - due to their unique blend of the folk style with Classical sensibilities. Doors open at 6pm for dinner & drinks, and music starts at 7:30! The Last Bison The Last Bison is anything but typical. The seven-member ensemble led by Ben Hardesty… Show more has seemingly risen from the marshes of southeastern Virginia to captivate the national music scene with a rare blend of folk that is poetically steeped in classical influences. Band members describe the sound as "mountain-top chamber." Already the band has drawn flattering though imperfect comparisons to indie rock superstars the likes of Mumford & Sons, The Decemberists and Fleet Foxes. Flattering because each of those bands has carried folk rock into the main- stream; imperfect because none of them have a front man that shares the stage with his father and sister, nor uses a 75-year-old chaplain's pump organ and Bolivian goat toenails on stage. The Last Bison is a tight knit community of family and friends that boasts a sound all its own. The Last Bison's live shows transport audiences from urban music halls to another, less familiar, era. Rich melodies accent unabashedly spiritual lyrics. Traditional folk instruments resonate with unexpected arrangements-sharing the musical space with lush family harmonies, classical strings, and earthy percussion. Band members appear to have stepped out of an 18th century stagecoach. The look hints at the band's roots in colonial Virginia, while the sound transcends a defining era. Folkhive Dare I say that Bison is to folk what Arcade Fire is to indie rock? Boasting 7 members and a sound seemingly born on the tree covered mountain tops of Virginia Bison lays down expansive and yet imminently listenable folk with an original feel I've not experienced in quite some time. Indie Shuffle Tangled with lively violins and whimsical banjo rifts, "Switzerland" hinges on the similar sounds of Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes. ... With such a wide range of instruments, the band has really created a unique sound that, while may sound similar to other artists, makes them a hybrid that truly stands out. Noisetrade While they will undoubtedly (and unfairly) draw immediate comparisons to bands like The Low Anthem, The Decemberists or even Mumford and Sons, [The Last] Bison has already crafted a sound that is threaded with their own singular strands of creativity.

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