FEB 21 @ The Boro Bar – Murfreesboro, TN w/Tron Ate My Baby, Most Amazing Century of Science
FEB 22 @ The Pilot Light – Knoxville, TN w/The Lonetones, Sidecar Symposium

Lexington, Kentucky has the distinction of generating a diverse collection of quality music, considering its modest atmosphere.  Thanks to a supportive listening community and an approachable assortment of local venues all of this music is able to coexist and grow.  Next week, these ideals will manifest themselves when gypsy rock performers in The Ford Theatre Reunion set out on the road with the dark folk musicians of Bear Medicine.

The Ford Theatre Reunion
The Ford Theatre Reunion has shared the stage with such acts as Man Man, Yard Dogs Road Show, the Dresden Dolls, Music City Burlesque and many more. The neo-carnival rock n’ roll group, based out of Lexington, KY produce a sound that harkens back to a by-gone era of gypsy caravans and rail-riding hobos.  This, married with blistering progressive rock technicality and heavy punk, is all brought together under multiple vocalists that are a study of compliment and contrast. It all manifests as an auditory spectacle that is both well-timed and well-executed. The result is compellingly jarring, featuring narrative lyrics and theatrically-matched music; all wrapped up in a deliriously raucous stage show.  FTR feverishly pulls you to your feet and drives you to dance, thrash, and shout – all in all, undoubtedly one of the most bizarre and fascinating acts likely to be seen in Tennessee.

Bear Medicine
Bitten and beaten by bears and subsequently dragged to a hollow rock, Joshua, Severn, Seth, and Kim found themselves on their last legs, their last fingers, and knew that to survive they had but one choice. From the white bones in the cave, from the strung out sinews and the discarded hides, from the very dirt and dust of the floor and walls they forged instruments and began to play their Bear Medicine. Nothing else could soothe their wounds. Ointment of flute, elixir of piano, balm of cello, salve of six-string, shuffling pacemaker rhythms of snare and tom-toms, nightly these remedies coalesce and keep the four breathing so that their voices may sing. Should you pass the hollow rock in which they convalesce, you will hear the fusion of melancholy and mirth, the former for the shed blood, the latter for the continued life. You needn’t have been mauled by grizzly to receive the benefits of this Bear Medicine. You need only life in your lungs, knees and hips willing to be swayed.