POLECAT & HEAD FOR THE HILLS @ THE DOMINO ROOM

The Domino Room, 51 Greenwood Ave, Bend, OR

Parallel 44 Presents, Bloom Well and BIGS Hydropnics are proud to present the return of Polecat, one of the West's most innovative and exciting live bands along with the unique and cutting edge Colorado band, Head for the Hills. They’ll be burning up Bend at the Domino Room on Saturday, November 12th. Sponsored by Bloom Well Bend and BIGS Hydroponics.

Doors are at 8:30PM. Show starts at 9:30PM. 21+. Advance tickets are $17 and are available at BendTicket (link below) or save on fees and buy with cash at Bloom Well or The Cosmic Depot. Ticket price goes up to $20 at the door.

About POLECAT:

Formed in Bellingham, Washington in Spring 2010, Polecat has traveled all over Northwest U.S., performing over 400 shows in four years. Their unique instrumentation enables them to seamlessly blend genres including bluegrass, country, celtic, rock, reggae, and world music into their sound. The general appeal of Polecat comes from their unique take on roots music and their interactive and high energy live shows.

About HEAD FOR THE HILLS: Head for the Hills has a simple but continuing dilemma they can’t seem to resolve. Specialists have been hired to no avail and the predicament persists: how does one describe the multifarious music of Head for the Hills? Among the top contenders are catchy turns of phrase like post-bluegrass, progressive string music, modern acoustic noir, and bluegrass bricolage. “On top of modern string music,” (Bluegrass Today), “Cutting edge,” (Drew Emmitt) or “Best in Colorado Bluegrass” (Westword Showcase Readers Poll)—those are up there too. Strip away the artful descriptors and you have a forward thinking group of {mostly} acoustic musicians drawing on eclectic influences, tastes and styles. They didn’t grow up immersed in bluegrass music but came to it later in life, with each other. The result is a sound based in bluegrass that reaches into indie rock, jazz, hip hop, world and folk to stitch together fresh songs that bridge the divide between past and future acoustic music. Head for the Hills—Adam Kinghorn on Guitar and vocals, Joe Lessard on violin and vocals, Matt Loewen on upright bass and vocals and Sam Parks on mandolin — have been bringing their music, whatever you’d like to call it, to audiences from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to South by Southwest and a multitude of stages in between since 2004. The band has independently issued two studio records and one live, been featured on NPR Ideastream and eTown, co-released a beer with Odell Brewing Company in May 2013 and charted on the CMJ Top 200 (Blue Ruin, 2013 and Head for the Hills, 2010). Blue Ruin, an all-new album of original material is available now.

Links:

Polecat - www.polecatmusic.com

Head for the Hills - www.headforthehillsmusic.com

Bloom Well - www.bloomwellbend.com

BIGS- www.bendsindoor.com

Parallel 44 Presents Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/parallel44presents