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Justin Robinson of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and William Dawson of the Alcazar Hotel and Katharine Whalen and the Fascinators team up for a fun session. Let’s call it Mountain hop.

via Harvey’s Kitchen

Kim Ware of the Atlanta, GA label Eskimo Kiss performs a song from her new Good Graces album in Harvey’s Kitchen.

Harvey Robinson, one of the creators of the show, and the owner the actual kitchen in Harvey’s Kitchen always writes the most fantastic episode descriptions. So, here, in his words is an introduction to this episode featuring the band The Red River:

“It had been but a few days since Carolyn and I had stripped off our cleaning masks and dropped the last of our mystery boxes into the new hallway. Our previous apartment had greeted over a hundred different bands from all over the country and their crumbs: a handful of picks, a guitar strap, a hand drawn portrait of a missing band member, and a rosin cloth had either been purged or migrated down the street with us, one hand truck at a time.

About a month previously, a lovely crunchy brown envelope had been left at the foot of our stairs addressed from Portland, Oregon. A location we’ve never visited but heard many a muttering about bicycles in elevators, seed bombings and music. Music. After I tore open the package, out dropped a lovely stenciled translucent wrapper, a couple of snapshots and a CD printed with muted sketches entitled, “The Red River:  Little songs about the big picture.”

The album itself became quite a moving gift. The tracks transition from one to the other like the motions of leaf from the tip of a branch on its fateful journey to paint the fall earth in brilliant ambers and shocking reds.

At once understated and anthemic, “little songs about the big picture” made our transition much more tranquil.”

New in Harvey’s Kitchen:

The Junior League Band is an old-time inspired rock band fronted by the Georgia grown banjo, vocalist, Lissy Rosemont. Based out of Washington, DC, this nationally touring band has been compared to “Alison Krauss and the Band” by the Washington Post, and touts Levon Helm’s own horn players on their catchy single “South Carolina Blues.” Rosemont has been referred to as one of the “most promising up and coming vocalists on the Americana scene” (Bristol Rythm and Roots Festival) as well as recorded in the studio her old-time banjo with acts such as Missy Elliott and the Pussy Cat Dolls.

Rosemont’s family runs the oldest fiddler’s festival in the country, the Old-Time Fiddler’s Convention in Union Grove, NC. The 5 instrumentalists merge these influences with delta blues and pop rock (50’s to Indie Rock) to make for an energetic, sing-song, string heavy, danceable yet mesmerizing live performance. Expect a show ripe with catchy melodies, toe tapping beats, sweet vocals, and some of the countries most talented up and coming players.

A native of Wisconsin, Anna Vogelzang has toured extensively in the Midwest but Harvey Robinson of Harvey’s Kitchen were fortunate enough to catch her in Greensboro, NC for a quick session on his porch.

Here she is performing Tiny Monsters from the album, Paper Boats.