High energy Parsonsfield plays “bluegrass on steroids” at the Myrna
Parsonsfield, an eclectic Americana band with blistering 5-part harmonies, performs at the Myrna Loy Center 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3.Tickets are $20 and are available at the Myrna Loy Center, 15 N. Ewing St., 443-0287 or online at myrnaloycenter.com.
Innovative and brave, they are “breathing new life into folk music.”
Known for their “rollicking” shows, they mix rock influences with traditional music.
The results are earning them a growing audience,
“On stage, Parsonsfield will give you rich five-part harmonies one minute, sound like bluegrass on steroids the next, and then rock you over the head with unbearably cool and raucous Celtic rhythms. All with taste and class.” —No Depression
“They harmonize; they play saws, mandolins and pump organs; they back their songs with crickets and squeaking screen doors; they are boisterously youthful yet deftly sentimental…”- David Vescey, The New York Times