A special Sunday concert!
After 25 years together, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem is an indelible alchemy of song, groove, friendship and soul. Beloved in their native New England, they have toured across the U.S. and Canada to festivals, theaters, and coffeehouses, leaving audiences humming, hopeful, and renewed.
Known for their lockstep harmonies, incisive songwriting, and lush arrangements with “stylish, unexpected choices” (Acoustic Guitar), Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem has always been a standard-bearer among string bands who stretch the boundaries of American roots music. Arbo is “blessed with an unmistakable voice, both light and sultry, with a hint of tremolo and smoke” (Acoustic Guitar), and her singing and fiddling pulls from old-time, blues, and swing. Anand Nayak’s electric and acoustic guitar style mixes folk, blues, and rock; bassist Andrew Kinsey doubles on clawhammer banjo; and drummer Scott Kessel plays a homemade kit of wooden boxes, tin cans, caulk tubes, tambourines, and a vinyl suitcase. Arbo, Nayak and Kinsey all write songs, and the band covers gems from Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, The Georgia Sea Island Singers, The Pretenders, and others, spinning performance sets that plumb the human condition with poetry, bravery, curiosity, and love.
Doors open at 6:30 pm for the 7:00 pm concert in Phinney Center’ s Community Hall (lower Brick Building).
Tickets are available online (After March 17), in person at prior SFS concerts, and at the door (subject to availability).