{"id":42389,"date":"2011-04-27T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=42389"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:22:30","slug":"wax-landes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/27\/wax-landes\/","title":{"rendered":"David Wax Museum, Dawn Landes & Hounds bound for Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a><\/p>\n

Two eclectic up-and-coming indie bands, the David Wax Museum and Dawn Landes & The Hounds, perform at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n

Available at www.batestickets.com<\/a>, advance tickets are $18 for the general public and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets cost $20\/$12 the day of the show. For more information, please contact 207-786-6163 or olinarts@bates.edu<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Named Americana Artist of the Year in the 2010 Boston Music Awards, the David Wax Museum<\/a> has been called “pure, irresistible joy” by NPR’s Bob Boilen and was hailed by TIME.com for “virtuosic musical skill and virtuous harmonies.”<\/p>\n

David Wax and Suz Slezak fuse Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create a unique Mex-Americana aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering and the donkey jawbone, a traditional percussion instrument from Veracruz, the group has electrified audiences across the country.<\/p>\n

Self-released in February, the band’s latest album, Everything Is Saved<\/em>, has propelled the Museum into the national spotlight. Dubbed one of the top 10 acts of this year’s South by Southwest festival by Time magazine and boosted by a March appearance on NPR’s World Caf\u00e9, it is clear that the duo is, as The New Yorker put it, “kicking up a cloud of excitement with their high-energy border-crossing sensibility.”<\/p>\n

As for Landes, Clash magazine praised her as “one of the finest voices in modern Americana,” offering “gorgeous country-flavored pop.” A Kentucky native now based in New York City, singer-songwriter Landes brings guitarist John Kaufman and drummer Ray Rizzo (aka The Hounds) to Lewiston to round out the Olin bill.<\/p>\n

\"Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n

Landes has toured as a solo with such country-folk and indie-rock stalwarts as Josh Ritter, Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, Alexi Murdoch and The Swell Season. Landes’ first self-released records, Dawn’s Music<\/em> and the EP two three four<\/em> effectively proved her talent, but it was 2008’s acclaimed Fireproof<\/em> (Cooking Vinyl) that revealed it to the world.<\/p>\n

Around that time her splendid bluegrass cover of Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks,” performed with an elderly group of Texans called The WST Band, became a YouTube favorite.<\/p>\n

Her fourth studio album, Sweet Heart Rodeo<\/em>, was released in 2009 to wide critical acclaim. The set was “a huge step forward, the culmination of a maturation process that comes with utilizing a dedicated band and the opening of previously closed musical doors,” wrote New Haven Register entertainment editor Patrick Ferrucci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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