VIDEO PREMIERE: Five Piece Folk Ensemble Pumpkin Bread Enchant With Stellar Melodies Via “How’d We Get To Know Each Other”

Five-piece folk ensemble Pumpkin Bread has announced the release of a new album entitled Dear Starling out March 8, 2019. Comprised of twelve stunning tracks, the album features the Boston-based band’s unique blend of traditional folk and contemporary Americana. To celebrate the album’s release, the group will bring the new tunes on the road for an East Coast tour. Kicking off with a hometown show at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA on March 10th, the tour will continue on down the coast hitting major cities including New York City, DC, Asheville and more.  

Produced by the Grammy-nominated Courtney Hartman, Dear Starling features a mix of instrumentals and achingly beautiful vocals that flawlessly showcase each member’s stellar musicianship. From start to finish it is clear that the band put careful consideration into the placement of each track, resulting in a complete, cohesive body of work … a refreshing return from the single-driven mentality that exists in music today.

Made up of five longtime friends, the kinship between the group is palpable, especially live. Known for their dynamic and captivating stage presence, the band has amassed a loyal following that has brought them to major markets across the country. Most recently, the band headlined the 2019 Boston Celtic Music Festival at The Sinclair in Cambridge, MA.

Glide is proud to premiere the official video for “How’d We Get To Know Each Other” off Dear Starling. The song is ripe with healing harmonies that are clearly reminiscent of Gillian Welch/David Rawling’s clean and pure Americana folk. 

“How’d We Get to Know Each Other” is a piece from the album that feels fitting as a single because it performs a couple of different functions,” describes the band about the track. “On its own, it’s a fun, fairly uplifting song with a story, and it asks some familiar and potentially relatable questions that a lot of us might wonder around the beginning of a new relationship. In doing so, it showcases some of the distinguishing voices of the band, and offers one answer to the questions that it poses, which is song itself, or the sharing of songs. Then, given that answer, it takes on another resonance in the context of the album, because it’s followed by the rest of the songs that we chose to share, with each other and with our listeners. So it becomes a question that the other songs on the record get to be in conversation with, and a more meta-question in terms of how it applies to ourselves: how did each of us get to know each other, musically, that is, through the shared process of making this album? Hopefully, the listener gets to hear that process come to life a little bit.”

 

PUMPKIN BREAD LIVE TOUR DATES:

March 8                 Salem, MA @ Salem Athenaeum
March 10               Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim
March 13               New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 1)
March 14               Baltimore, MD @ Germano’s Piattini
March 16               Washington DC @ Concerts at Flagler
March 19               Aberdeen, NC @ The Rooster’s Wife
March 20               Asheville, NC @ Isis Music Hall
March 21               Washington DC @ SoFar Sounds DC
March 22               Boston, MA @ SoFar Sounds Boston
March 23               Kittery, ME @ The Dance Hall

For tickets and more information on the band, please visit: www.pumpkinbreadband.com/.

Top Photo by Louise Bichan

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