(((folkYEAH!))) Presents:

Waters, Chasms, Churches

When
Wed Jul 18, 2012
Where
Brick & Mortar Music Hall
Time
9pm
Cost
$10 - $12
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Description

Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O’Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time away from making music. Van explored the new city, swam in the Norwegian fjords, enjoyed the weather and the experience of seasons changing. He found his bearings and fell in love again.

Inspiration arrived and as he wrote, Van was compelled to fuel the process further by changing his environment once more. He spent most of the next year traveling: to Alaska, where he’d spent summers working on his father’s commercial salmon fishing boat; to California, where he’d grown up in a seaside town off Highway 1; and eventually to New York, where in Brooklyn he endured relentless blizzards and a cold nearly reminiscent of Oslo.

Van gave his new project a name: WATERS. These new songs he wrote veered away from the frequently loose, punchy anthems of Port O’Brien, and as he inten

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http://www.brickandmortarmusic.com
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415.371.1631
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Location

  1. Brick & Mortar Music Hall
    1710 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA