The USM Gorham campus is fairly disconnected from the Portland music scene if you don't have a car, and I fall under that category. To fill this musical void on the campus, I started booking bands for weekly concerts in Gorham.
On Saturday, January 31st at 8pm in the Hastings Formal Lounge at USM Gorham, I will be hosting USM's first concert: South China (Biddeford) and Jakob Battick (Gorham/Bangor). South China is a husband and wife folk duo who were originally apart of Brown Bird (Peapod Recordings). Jakob Battick is a good friend of mine who writes beautiful and dreamy folk songs. He's currently transitioning from an acoustic to electric set, and it's exciting to see new interpretations of his older songs.
This show is free and all-ages. Everyone is welcome to attend! I made a Facebook event for it right here. I hope for this to become a bigger thing for the campus and encourage more students to get involved in the Greater Portland music community. Eventually I'd like to bring in bigger bands from out-of-state, but there's a lot of work to do before any of that happens...
If you'd like to stay updated on upcoming shows at USM, just keep an eye on this page. I'm hoping to bring Rotundo Sealeg, Math the Band, and Adam Kurtz along with many other local musicians to Gorham as well. As for booking inquiries, I've been getting a lot of requests this semester and there aren't too many doable weekends this semester, so realistically I'll only be able to do 4 to 6 concerts (can't hold ones on school nights!)
So yeah, just wanted to let you guys know about this. Only a 20 or so minute drive from Portland and all of the shows will be free!
This is great. Gorham has seemed like a lost opportunity for the Portland scene for a long time.
Exactly my thoughts. Have some other shows in development:
2/27 - Rotundo Sealeg, two more TBA
3/7 - Adam Kurtz (Kurtz & Mann), two more TBA
4/22 - Firepalooza: Better Than, two more TBA
The South China/Jakob Battick show had a great turn-out with 50+ people. It looks like my shows in Gorham keep growing and growing. You can view some photos from the show on today's Hilly Town entry: http://hillytown.com/news/south-china-jakob-battick-usm-gorham-show-photos/
Just got The Scrapes on for the 2/27 show. Trying to get Full Contact Kitty as well, but may end up with Huak. Who knows.
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