Austinist Show Preview: Tom Schraeder Performance and EP Release

Photo by Victoria Renard

Tom Schraeder at The Mohawk
Wednesday, October 15
The Mohawk (912 Red River)
8:00 pm
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We often hear about the traveler who visits our city for the immense SXSW festival and then refuses to leave (perhaps you, dear reader, are one), but how often does an extended or permanent visit also become the perfect opportunity to record an EP? Well, maybe the term perfect is a little off. When folk singer Tom Schraeder hit Austin for the festival, he turned it into a six-week recording process for his latest release, the Lying Through Dinner EP, and his visit here ended up consisting of not just nights on couches and floors but even a trip to one of our homeless shelters. "I'm not saying I'd choose to spend the night in a shelter again,” Schraeder admits, “but something about the vagabond nature of the experience made this project happen with ease.” Schraeder is celebrating the release of the EP in the city where it was birthed with a show at The Mohawk. Joining the symphonic folker are two Austin artists who share the same M.O., Dana Falconberry and Leatherbag.

Falconberry also just celebrated an album release for her album Oh Skies of Grey at the end of last month. The Michigan native now performs alongside a band that consists of bassist Andrew Bergmann and backing vocalists/instrumentalists Erika Maassen and Gina Dvorak. Fans of Peter and the Wolf’s Lightness will remember Falconberry’s sweet delivery from that album as well. Randy Reynolds, better known as Leatherbag, has an output that is alternately hushed folk and Velvet Underground-type rockers, much of which depending on whether or not he is backed by his band The Pretty Tuffs. Fans of interesting, orchestrated folk will not want to miss this release and concert.

Tom Schraeder: [website] [myspace]
Dana Falconberry: [website] [myspace]
Leatherbag: [website] [myspace]