Edison Woods / Holcombe Waller

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"Very powerful music...daring, essential, dramatic, beautifully made, and likely to provoke goosebumps and gasps."
- David Garland, Spinning On Air

"Waller's evocative voice will always foreground his creative output, but he has the vision of an artist, rather than a vocalist. As such, he uses that beauty as a tool to establish an emotional foothold with the audience, so that he can then unpack his finely crafted and haunting sensibility."
-The Portland Mercury

The haunting music of EDISON WOODS beckons a strange and dreamlike world. Their sound, a mélange of eerie tones mixed with upbeat percussion and whimsical strings may be reminiscent of the somber music of Elysian Fields or the neo-classical feel of Rachel's. However, Edison Woods offers something indecipherably more complicated, and Julia Frodahl's voice seals the experience in wonder and lost innocence. The band includes: David Berger (The Vanity Set, The Flying Neutrinos), Jason DiMatteo (Chocolate Genius, Lounge Lizards), Julia Frodahl (Edison Woods), Mike Bomwell, Noah Hoffeld, Maxim Moston (Antony & The Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright), and Noe Venable.

Holcombe Waller is a singer-songwriter and performance artist with three critically acclaimed albums. Holcombe's recent work-in-progress debut of his multi-discipline performance "Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest" at the Portland Time-Based Arts Festival was acclaimed by audiences and press alike. Holcombe moonlights as the singing minstrel and down-and-out clown Mihael Sagalovesky – whose recent piece "Mihael Sagalovesky and the Tragic Torments of Patty Heart Townes" transformed covers of Patty Griffin and Townes Van Zandt songs into a multi-media folk operetta of devastation and redemption, thrilling audiences in Portland as well as in New York and Philadelphia. Holcombe is currently writing an original musical retelling of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet," recording his next album, and performing at music venues far and wide with his fantastic backing ensemble The Healers.