House of Sticks...Song for Summer Solstice

A Song for the Summer Solstice. Title Track from Arborea's album 'House of Sticks' (Remastered)

Impression, Musique

Arborea performing at Lewiston Auburn Magazine/Captive Elements Art Gallery. Lewiston, Maine 14 June 2012
Photo by Shylah Curran

Arborea's NPR Tiny Desk Concert on Youtube

Arborea's NPR Tiny Desk Concert on Youtube. Recorded 20 April 2012

Folksong

Photo by Buck Curran

Arborea's 2008 S/T cd Handmade Edition

We have a new batch of the Handmade edition of our 2008 S/T album For Sale (the album with Black Mountain Road and Red Bird). Each one is numbered and features a unique watercolor painting by Buck. These are created to help fund touring and recording costs and are a minimum Donation of $20 plus shipping. If interested please Email arboreamusic@gmail.com
The original album was put out by the Philadelphia label Fire Museum Records and that edition is Sold Out. The Handmade editions are from an overrun batch of original cds and feature numbered sleeves, track listing/credit insert and original artwork.
Helena Espvall plays cello on the songs Black Mountain Road and Red Bird.

Arborea's NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Our Tiny Desk Concert has been released today. Here are photos from the taping of the session In the NPR Studios in Washington, DC. Friday, 20 April 2012. Thanks so much to Bob Boilen for inviting us and for playing our harmonium on 'Forewarned', and to the rest of the Wonderful crew at NPR Music...we've been fans of the Tiny Desk Concerts for several years, so it was a sincere pleasure to do this session.
Photos by Doriane Raiman

For Lee Jackson In Space

Arborea has contributed a song to the Important compilation 'For Lee Jackson in Space'. The album was just released on June 4th, as a tribute to honor Lee Jackson and to benefit the Texas chapter of ALS. This tribute album came together in love and honor of Lee Jackson, writer, music fan, dear friend, who passed in late March 2012 after a struggle with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. This collection of songs, nearly all of which are new or previously unreleased, comes from the many bands and musicians who Lee not only covered and celebrated with such passion, but also in many cases befriended over many years of correspondence, concert and festival attendance and more. The album's liner notes contain full information about each song as well as thoughts from Lee himself about the contributing artists, taken from his writing work. All profits will go to the Texas chapter of the ALS Association; web.alsa.org/DFW2012 has more information about their continuing work. Please feel free to join our Facebook discussion group at www.facebook.com/groups/323110634410498/ if you'd like to learn more about the remarkable man who we all dearly miss; there is also a direct link to this album in Facebook itself at www.facebook.com/ForLeeJacksonInSpace
The highlighted title of the album will take you to the Bandcamp site or you can past this into your browser
http://forleejacksoninspace.bandcamp.com/album/for-lee-jackson-in-space

New Photography/Art by Shanti

Photography/Art by Shanti Curran © 2012

Arborea on 207 WCSH6 NBC

Arborea's performance on NBC WCSH6 evening program 207, Portland, Maine. Recorded 22 May 2012
Songs performed 'Careless Love' and 'Red Bird'

Arborea @ One Longfellow Square

Performing at One Longfellow Square 26 May 2012. Christopher Paul Stelling and Dilly Dilly also performed that night!
Photo by Steven J. Gray

Christopher Paul Stelling

Christopher Paul Stelling performing live @ One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine 26 May 2012. Photo by Steve J. Gray

Arborea confirmed for 2012 Philadelphia Folk Festival

It's official Arborea has been confirmed for the 51st Philadelphia Folk Festival
August 17-19, 2012 Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Wanda Jackson, and Strand of Oaks has also been confirmed.

Arborea Spring and Summer Shows 2012

May
3 Monkey House/Winooski, VT
4 Gulu Gulu/Salem, MA
11 Trinity Episcopal Church (w/Denise Dill)/Lewiston, ME
22 207/WCSH6 live performance/Portland, ME
26 One Longfellow Square (w/Dilly Dilly)/Portland, ME
June
14 LA Magazine Gallery/Lewiston, ME
16-17 Open Sky Farm/ME
17 The Oak and the Ax (w/200 Years and Herbcraft)/Biddeford, ME
29 Lompoc Cafe/Bar Harbor, ME
July
13 Frontier Cafe (w/Greg Jamie-O'Death)/Brunswick, ME
21-22 Open Sky Farm/ME
August
17-19 Philadelphia Folk Festival/Schwenksville, PA
30 the Basement/Nashville, TN
September
5 Nightlight/Chapel Hill, NC

Marissa Nadler - The Sister

May 29th is the officially release date of Marissa Nadler's new album The Sister. The album is out on her own imprint
Box Of Cedar Records
'Apostle' is just one of the stunningly gorgeous songs included in what is, one of the finest albums of 2012

Arborea @ Free Range Music Festival - Steven J Gray Photos

Arborea performing @ the Colonial Theatre for the Free Range Music Festival in Belfast, Maine
28 April 2012. Photos by the wonderful Maine based photographer
Steven J Gray
Also visit him on Facebook

We Listen For You: From The Cedar Box: Arborea

Marissa Nadler interviews us for her 'From The Cedar Box' @ We Listen For You

Cian Nugent - Grass Above My Head/My War Blues

Today is the official release of Cian Nugent's majestic new 7" record 'Grass Above My Head/My War Blues' vhf#130
out on VHF Records
NPR's Lars Gotrich just posted a nice review along with a stream of the piece 'My War Blues' on NPR

Two Wings 'Love's Spring'

Two Wings Gorgeous new album 'Love's Spring' is out on Tin Angel Records! UK friends be sure to go see these guys as they're touring soon...their live shows are not to be missed!!!
Cover art by Hanna Tuulikki, photo by Alex Woodward/Crimson Glow Photography

Micah Blue Smaldone and Black Swans at The Oak and the Ax

Micah Blue Smaldone and the Black Swans live at The Oak and the Ax in Biddeford Maine 29 April 2012. Micah debuted some of his amazing new songs...opting to use a black telecaster in place of his old Guild 12 String. The Black Swans performed some incredibly fragile and beautiful songs!
Photos by Buck Curran

Free Range Music Festival 2012, Belfast Maine

Arborea took part in this year's Free Range Festival in Belfast Maine on 28 April 2012. It was one of the very best musical festivals we've ever been a part of. Among the lineup was Glenn Jones, Sharron Kraus, MV & EE w/Matt Lajoie on bass, Lonesome Shack, The Curious Mystery, Kath Bloom, and many more. Emily Burnham of the Bangor Daily News posted a fine review of the festival on her wonderful Culture Shock Blog. Thanks for listening Emily!
photos by Buck Curran, Arborea photo by Shylah Curran