Midnight North / Justyn Priest

1801 W Sunset Blvd,Spokane WA 99201

16 November, 2022

Description

COVID-19 UPDATE: There are currently NO Covid restrictions for this show. Please check back closer to show time to ensure this hasn't changed. We thank you for your cooperation and understanding. For any further questions, please email [email protected]. Midnight North There's Always a Story represents a new chapter for Midnight North. Ten stories told through song on their most polished album to date. Reflecting on the time since their origin, Midnight North is ready to tell the world its story. A group of multi-instrumentalists with songwriting roots in Folk and Americana, Midnight North is a mainstay on the stages of the national touring circuit. Rolling Stone hailed Midnight North as the "Best New Act" in its review of 2018's Peach Music Festival saying the band "takes the best parts of roots music and weaves them into a tapestry of rock and Americana."Grahame Lesh, Elliott Peck, & Connor O'Sullivan began playing together in San Francisco. In early 2012 they played their first show as Grahame Lesh & Friends. Grahame & Elliott both brought a repertoire of original music to this new project that was a perfect marriage once the band began performing in earnest. In late 2012 the band went into the studio for the first time, tracking the entirety of their debut album End of the Night in just 2 days. End of the Night (mixed & produced by Connor) was released in June 2013 as they officially debuted the name Midnight North.The band began touring in June 2015, with the release of their second album Scarlet Skies. That began a five year run as a touring band, playing in 36 states in front of thousands of people across the country. They released Under the Lights, their most successful studio album to date, in summer 2017. "Across all of the tracks, when you think you have the band pegged for a style or a genre, all of a sudden a chorus, or a new solo or new instrument altogether, diverts the music boldly but smartly to a new sound and feel," said The Poke Around in their review of Under the Lights. They also released two live albums including 2018's Selections From the Great American Music Hall which featured Bob Weir & Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead plus members of Twiddle as special guests.A pivotal moment for the band came when Grahame met drummer Nathan Graham at a benefit show in Philadelphia in 2016. A month later Nathan sat in with the band for a show, eventually joining the band for their longest tour to date in the Spring of 2017. Bringing on the well seasoned drummer as a full-time member of the band (and learning about his banjo playing, singing, and song-writing skills) represented the next step forward as plans were made to record their fourth studio album.In January 2020, the band went into a California studio with producer David Simon-Baker to craft their fourth studio album, There's Always a Story, released in 2021 on Americana Vibes. As the world shut down in March and the band quarantined separately around the country, the album was finished remotely in California and Pennsylvania. As the months ticked by they let the rest of the newly written & recorded songs sink into their consciousness so that when work resumed on the album in June the entire album became even better than they could have hoped.2022 and beyond is a new beginning, and while Midnight North longingly looks ahead, hand-in-hand with the rest of the world, There's Always a Story will serve as a collective and reflective narrative. Justyn Priest Justyn Priest is an up and coming songwriter and guitarist from Sandpoint, ID and currently residing in Spokane, WA. His eclectic band was recently part of the amazing lineup at the 11th Annual Walla Walla Guitar Festival and will also be a featured act at the Wallace Blues Festival this year. His guitar talents have elevated many bands throughout his tenure as a professional musician, but now his songwriting and bandleader talents have come to the forefront. For fans of soul, rock, country, blues and Americana.