One Longfellow Square will host Honeysuckle w/ Ben Cosgrove at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at 181 State St. in Portland.
Honeysuckle is a progressive folk act that blends older influences and traditional instrumentation with modern effects and inspiration.
Comprised of Holly McGarry and Chris Bloniarz, this Boston-based band can frequently be found performing across the country. Honeysuckle has performed at Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, Mountain Jam, Americanafest, Otis Mountain Get Down, and Audiotree.
Honeysuckle just released their fourth full-length album “Great Divide.” They also have four previous titles: “Fire Starter” (full length 2019), “Catacombs” (full length 2017), “Honeysuckle” (full length 2016) and “Arrows” (EP 2015).
Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist from New England. He travels constantly all over the country, performing a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between folk and classical music.
Throughout his career, the strongest forces guiding Cosgrove’s composition and performances have been his deep and abiding interests in landscape, geography, place, and environment. For years, he has been fascinated and inspired by the different ways people understand and interact with the landscapes around them, and through songs with names like “Prairie Fire,” “Champlain,” “Little Rain,” “Nashua,” “Sigurd F. Olson,” “Kennebec,” and others, he seeks to explore those relationships and reflect them in sound. “I don’t think of my pieces as rendering places in music,” he once remarked in an interview in Harvard Magazine, “but more just as a way of responding to places musically. Writing music just turns out to be a great way for me to process the world.”
He has returned in 2021 with “The Trouble with Wilderness,” a lush, textured, and expansive set of 12 new songs that consider the role of nature and wildness in the built environment. “
Tickets cost $12 in advance or $15 at the door.
For tickets or more information, call 207-761-1757 or visit onelongfellowsquare.com.