Introspective through music: a singer-songwriter collaborative show to open your senses and bring new perspective
About Roof Beams
Roof Beams is an indie-folk-rock band based around singer-songwriter Nathan Robinson in Washington, DC. Nathan is a lifelong student of philosophy and literature, which is evident in the band name’s origins from J D Salinger’s novella Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. Nathan’s lyrics probe the concepts of commitment, parenthood, politics, and faith with an openness that pleads for empathy from the listener and to pay that empathy forward. Originally founded in the early 2000’s as “Raise up Roof Beams” near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the band has released 5 LPs and an EP with a rotating cast of band members performing live and on records.
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About Weird Year
Weird Year is an evolving series of projects and experiments from the prolific yet reclusive harrisburg-based songwriter and performance artist Tara Toms. After several years on hiatus, Weird Year returns with fresh songs and perspectives on solitude, grief, and divinity. With this new music and revisitation of earlier songs, Toms delivers emphatic vocal performances with vacillation between precise and unhinged control. Tara’s music (and entire vibe tbh) has been aptly described as “long-winded proclamations of self-actualization; polyrhythmic chaos; and electrified, DIY Americana earworms”.
Weird Year recorded one EP in 2016 entitled “Wish and Lean”. An unreleased album “Let The World End Already” will be available in 2022. Links to recordings and more information about this and other creative projects led or facilitated by Tara Toms can be found at www.drawnonward.net”
“These songs have structures that are at the same time completely unusual, and yet feel absolutely necessary. I love things that are genuinely strange if you think about it, but present themselves so naturally that you could easily not think about it. This is one of those albums. The songs are so expertly put together that you could totally miss how weird they are, but then you take a step back and ask, how in the world did they come up with this crazy thing?”
-Obsolete Media Objects
“If you like thoughtful songwriting voiced in broad-range vocals with intertwined harmonies, set to changing time signatures and tempos, and backed by soft, tonal guitar and percussion, you might like Weird Year"
-John Bruce