
Soft Opening
Wed, 11 Feb, 7:30 PM CST
Doors open
6:30 PM CST
SPACE
1245 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
Description
Soft Opening features Nora O'Connor, Liam Davis, Gerald Dowd, Alton Smith, and Mark Bransfield recreating the soft rock songs of the 70's.
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Soft Opening tenderly recreates the soothing sounds of 1970’s soft rock. Its five members not only take turns singing lead, each one is also required by blood oath to provide backup vocal harmony to fully recapture the beauty of these legendary songs.
Featuring local darlings Nora O’Connor (Neko Case, The Flat Five), Liam Davis (The Diff, Frisbie), Gerald Dowd (Robbie Fulks, Justin Roberts), Alton Smith (Steve Dawson & The Lucid Dreams, Bear Williams Band) and Mark Bransfield (The Bransfield Strait), these identically aged musician-vocalists have these classic tunes all but etched into their frigging DNA. It is thus their distinct pleasure to sing you these songs with all the dulcet majesty and love they command.
Event Information
Age Limit
All Ages

Soft Rock
Soft Opening
Soft Opening
Soft Rock
SOFT OPENING tenderly recreates soft-rock songs of the 1970’s and wraps you in a warm knitted afghan of harmonies from its five singing members. Featuring Grammy-nominated musicians who have performed with Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, The Decemberists and Neko Case, among many others, SOFT OPENING gently carries you back to a time when you were soothed... then seduced by slow dancing sounds. Showcasing an array of one-hit wonders and other forgotten gems, SOFT OPENING is more than a musical labor of love, it is LOVE (baby, baby).