ScuffleHoeDown Veggies for All celebration with HYMN FOR HER
at Unity Food Hub
Saturday, November 5th
7:00PM
at Unity Food Hub
Saturday, November 5th
7:00PM
Earlier this year, we teamed up with Maine Farmland Trust to kick-off of Veggies for All’s 9th year of hunger relief with a breathtaking performance by William Joseph Jiordan and Henry Finch. Seems only natural to celebrate the end of the season with a rip-roarin’ party. Hymn for Her are on the road with their new album, Drive Til U Die, and are going to detour through Unity to help us do this up right!
Join us in Unity to celebrate the harvest, welcome new faces to Veggies for All and appreciate the old standbys, and mark the sweetness of the season.
Veggies For All, a project of Maine Farmland Trust, is a food bank farm that works to relieve hunger by growing vegetables for those in need, while collaborating with partners to distribute and increase access to quality and nutritious food. Each year VFA grows tons of vibrant, pesticide-free produce that is made available to roughly 1500 of our most food insecure neighbors -at no cost- through a network of 9 food pantries serving 25 towns. Founded by beginning farmers in 2007, they have grown and distributed 130,000 pounds of vegetables and engaged hundreds of volunteers in thousands of hours of community-based hunger relief.
Maine Farmland Trust works to protect farmland, and to keep farming in Maine viable and vital.
Located at 69 School Street in Unity, the Unity Food Hub aggregates, markets, and distributes Maine foods from family farms & small food businesses.
Join us in Unity to celebrate the harvest, welcome new faces to Veggies for All and appreciate the old standbys, and mark the sweetness of the season.
Veggies For All, a project of Maine Farmland Trust, is a food bank farm that works to relieve hunger by growing vegetables for those in need, while collaborating with partners to distribute and increase access to quality and nutritious food. Each year VFA grows tons of vibrant, pesticide-free produce that is made available to roughly 1500 of our most food insecure neighbors -at no cost- through a network of 9 food pantries serving 25 towns. Founded by beginning farmers in 2007, they have grown and distributed 130,000 pounds of vegetables and engaged hundreds of volunteers in thousands of hours of community-based hunger relief.
Maine Farmland Trust works to protect farmland, and to keep farming in Maine viable and vital.
Located at 69 School Street in Unity, the Unity Food Hub aggregates, markets, and distributes Maine foods from family farms & small food businesses.
HYMN FOR HER (Everywhere, USA)
Hymn for Her is Lucy and Wayne Waxing. Their newest release Drive Til U Die is more than an album title, it's a manifesto. A mantra. But to call this Americana duo and their daughter road warriors would be a misnomer; to them, the road isn't a battleground to conquer, it's their beloved home. A nomadic tribe of three, they dwell in a '61-vintage Bambi Airstream towed by a Ford van whose odometer shows nearly half a million miles - which, they proudly note, equals a trip to the moon. And back.
Lucy and Wayne, who share a fondness for rustic life, have been described as "hillbillies with electronics," while their sound has drawn such amusing phrasery as "a riotous, rocking roadkill stew," "juiced-up backwoods country blues [injected] with a dose of desert-rock psychedelia" and "Hell's Angels meet the Amish."
The duo met in Philadelphia, where Lucy worked in a music store and Wayne worked in a hoagie shop. She'd buy hoagies; he'd buy strings. They started playing open mics together. Then they hit the road. They've been known as Hymn for Her since 2011, when they changed up their folky sound with Wayne's drums and Lucy's Johnny Lowe-made Lowebow cigar-box guitar/bass. That year, they released Hymn for Her Presents ... Lucy & Wayne and THE AmAIRican STREAM, recorded in a trailer during a cross-country tour.
They recorded its follow-up, Hymn for Her Presents ... Lucy and Wayne's Smokin' Flames, at Detroit's Ghetto Recorders with producer Jim Diamond (the White Stripes, the Fleshtones). That gave them room to further expand their sound, with Wayne on acoustic guitar, harmonica, kick-drum, hi-hat, and "bang-o" - banjo as drum - and Lucy on banjo, guitar and the broomstick-necked electric cigar-box.
Recording for their newest release, Drive Til U Die, started at Sputnik Sound Studio in Nashville, with five foot-stomping tracks produced by Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jack White). On most of those recordings, Wayne ran the acoustic guitar through a small, distorted tube amp, a technique inspired by early Keith Richards. The trick gave track "Shine" its swampy, gumbo spice. But the crunchy psychedelic riffs underlying the upbeat melody and lyrics on "Paraguay" come straight from the Lowebow - and Lucy's skill at making it wail.
Producer Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let's Active) captured their softer side, recording "Seas of Croatia," "Milkweed" and "Honeycomb" at his Fidelitorium in Kernersville, N.C. Easter also mixed two of three Airstream-recorded tracks: "Mazzy Star" and "Acetylene."
"Drive Til U Die is already solidly entrenched in my Top Five of this year. It is that good." - No Depression
"It's one hell of a ride." - Country Standard Time
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