SET TIMES: The Weather Pennies 7-7:45pm Band Of Comerados 8-8:45pm Briarfinch 9-10pm (or later) 9.27 Sunday (Progressive Bluegrass) Hidden Hall & The PBJ Present: "PNW Bluegrass Getdown" featuring Briarfinch Band of Comerados The Weather Pennies 6:30pm doors 7pm show 21+ Hidden Hall 400 N 35th St hiddenhall.com Since 2015 and extending far into the future, Band of Comerados plays music that makes you feel good. Call it bluegrass, jamgrass, folk, or indie, what sets the band apart is their intricate instrumentation, dual vocal parts, intense improvisational jams, and the fact that these guys have so much damn fun when they’re playing live music! In between traveling up and down the west coast in 2022, BoC managed record two albums. Grass Half Full is the newest full length album, containing 11 songs. These road tested tunes were captured perfectly at Jackpot! Studio in SE Portland. The album was released in June 2023. With Friends Like These included a bevy of Portland’s finest musicians helping create ambitious, full-band EP that was released on Halloween 2022, and follows previous releases Kindsight (2020), Trial & Error (2019), and Tomorrow is Today (2017). Olympia, Washington-based Briarfinch combine bluegrass, jazz, rock, classical, and Irish music into a tightly woven newgrass machine. Songwriters Cory Briar (mandolin) and Erin Finch (guitar) join forces, providing a variety of carefully constructed original tunes traversing love, identity, doubt, and wonder. Finch’s distinctive rhythmic guitar, a blend of intricate fingerpicking and Irish Bodhran-inspired triplets, breathes a wild sort of life into each tune. Briar’s intuitive sense for musical motifs and proclivity to off-the-beaten-path solos neatly compliments both his and Finch’s songwriting. The virtuosic Josh Grice (5-string violin) adds a technical edge to the band, approaching melody and improvisation with a classical precision. Finally, Tom Roalkvam’s (electric bass) incessant rhythm and groove create a driving feel to every song. Together, the four pack rooms of friends and fans, providing enlivening music full of talented composition, free spirited improvisation, and many surprising musical turns.