Harvest Jam featuring Free Range Folk
Mauch Chunk Opera House
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229
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15th Annual Harvest Jam Featuring Free Range Folk!
Hosted by Comedic Wonder Lila Williams
special guest Tom Storm
About the Music:
Free Range Folk hail from the forested mountains of Jim Thorpe, the pebbled shores of the Lehigh River, and the glowing embers of a campfire under a starry night. Their music is original—it’s bluegrass, it’s dirt rock, it’s folk. It’s a choral ensemble clapping along with a brass band… except when it’s not. But whatever it is, it’s always a treat.
Special Guest Tom Storm Band
Growing up in the farm fields and woodlands of the Northeast, Tom spent his youth wandering around his share of wooded glades and haymows, finding lessons of kinship within the echoes of spirits past and present.
Inside his childhood home, familiar sounds the likes of John Denver, the Statler Brothers, and Willie Nelson scented the air. Outside he found identity in the sounds and dappled shade of the trees; their branches bowing low over the creek as he traced it toward the source. Its simultaneous chattering and murmuring conversations across a stone-filled bed provided a soundtrack that guided him into adulthood.
Those soundtracks of his youth still possess the power to capture memories or deliver him to them.
Each day he uses these memories as a touchstone, reminding himself that during the moments we must walk a road we do not choose, we can keep with us a road we remember.