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SXSW Boston & Beyond Artist Spotlight: Grey Season breathe new life into folk rock


Welcome to the latest in a week-long series of spotlights profiling the bands and artists performing at the Boston & Beyond party at SXSW, a collaborative effort between Berklee College of Music and Vanyaland. Our second-annual event — and Berklee’s 10th SXSW party overall — goes down Thursday, March 19 at Austin’s Brush Square Park, 409 East 5th St., next to the Convention Center. The party is co-presented by Berklee Alumni, The Red Room @ Cafe 939, and Heavy Rotation Records, and is all ages and open to SXSW badge holders. The public can email sxswrsvp@berklee.edu to attend free of charge. An oyster bar will be provided by Island Creek Oysters, and VanyaRadio will be streaming all the performances. More info and music links can be found here.


Grey Season, 2:30 p.m. set time


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Berklee’s student-run record label Heavy Rotation Records will be well-repped down in Austin, and its selection to take part in 2015’s Boston & Beyond party is no stranger to the school: Grey Season.

Though the folk rock band has been bubbling up under the surface within the Boston music scene for the past few years, cutting their teeth as buskers around the city and learning how to attract and please an audience in the toughest of conditions, last year’s Time Will Tell You Well LP has raised their game considerably.

“Like artisanal jams and parentally approved engineering degrees, Grey Season sounds timeless and, in fact, is,” writes Allston Pudding recently. “The folk five-piece incorporates strings upon strings, making for a rustic, warm style overtop calculated planning among instruments.”

Adds the Daily Free Press, which caught the Grey Season live at the House of Blues Foundation Room earlier this year: “They proved that shredding on a mandolin is possible and that five guys yodeling can sound beautiful… Whether they’re giving a small acoustic performance or playing loud and rowdy, Grey Season keeps it impossible to wipe the grin from your face.”

We’ll all be smiling down in Texas. Read the band’s mission statement below, then get acquainted down below with the best part of Grey Season — their songs.

Through schools & suburbs, late nights & long mornings, load ins, load outs; through empty bars and full ones; in living rooms, in summer streets – of rent & gas tanks, in rest stops and apple orchards; through basements and barns, through faces and kind strangers – of banjo cases full of quarters & love notes, radios, handshakes, broken bones, back porches, kitchen tables, beds & headphones, parents, siblings, by train, by bicycle, in pickup trucks; of brotherhood, of peering through stage lights at all of you. Music brings us together regardless of what may divide us. We sincerely hope the music we’ve created provides the same cathartic experiences for you that music has brought to us. …To life.



Follow Grey Season on Twitter @greyseasonband


SXSW 2015