Northern Flight: A Bluebird Music Festival Event (night 1)

From the creators of the Bluebird Music Festival comes Northern Flight! Please join us for a magical weekend of some folkin’ great music. VIP weekend passes, including early entry and a VIP kickoff party, available at www.bluebirdmusicfestival.org. 

 

Ocie Elliott – Ocie Elliott is musical duo Jon Middleton and Sierra Lundy from Victoria, B.C., Canada. The two have come a long way in a short time since a chance encounter in a Salt Spring Island café led to a spark, collaboration, and their ultimate partnership in music and beyond. That was hardly two years ago, and Ocie has been busy, releasing both an EP and their debut full-length album We Fall In (Nettwerk Music Group), playing with the likes of Mason Jennings, Sons of the East, Kim Churchill, Roo Panes, Current Swell and Joseph, touring Canada, US, and Europe and having their song “Run To You” featured on an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. 

With gentle acoustic chords layered over gorgeously complementary voices, which intertwine in gentle harmonies, Sierra and Jon’s beautifully written songs explore, of all things, love and connection. The duo has been aptly described by one reviewer as “…the aural equivalent of indigo painted skies and the first summer stars.”

 

Nathaniel Riley – Nathaniel Riley, a folk singer/songwriter from South Dakota, put in his time working the small family farm and recording melancholic melodies in his basement. Treading with years of grief that constructed a cloud full of songs that Nathaniel lugged to Colorado began the process of his debut full length album, “Bird Songs”

 

Nathaniel’s songscapes lean on your heartstrings, unpacking melodies like a nostalgic lucid dream. Acoustically driven, wistful lyricism and ambient instrumentation provide the bedrock for his contemporary folktales. Compiling miles of desolation, heartache, introspection and memories of the forest and the prairie’s whistle that convey him to persist. Empowering his songs their role, to be a beacon on the hill. 

 

Downey Chase – Downey Chase, a name that might evoke visions of a hero from some weathered cowboy novel, is the newest project of Nic Lussier (known by some as co-founder/member of indie-rock group The Brazen Youth). Downey Chase is part alter-ego, part romanticized musings, & part unfiltered authenticity. For Lussier, it’s a foray into uncharted territory & a venture of self-reliance.

With his debut single, “I Spin”, Downey Chase hopes to convey images of nature & the movement of life through introspective storytelling.

Currently residing in Boulder, CO, Nic finds solace in the melodic wisdom of folk icons like Bob Dylan, Adrianne Lenker, and Gregory Alan Isakov.