Event

Dream the Sun

Family has always been at the center of The Pinkerton Raids music, mostly because siblings Katie and Steven DeConto supported their songwriting brother Jesse through the first half-dozen years of the bands life.

Today, Jesse leads a band of friends: Scott McFarlane on drums and trumpet, Jon DePue on bass, Garrett Langebartels on guitars. But the music itself is still rooted in family.

On March 27 at North Star, the band will play two sets of brand-new songs about the intimate family relationships that grant us identity.

An invitation from Jesse:
I come at Irish nature spirituality through my maternal grandmother, my Nanny, Ethel Maguffin. On March 27, well have just passed the spring equinox, which feels like an apt time to lean into the complexities of family. The old pagan festival of Ostara, from which we get Easter, marks the annual balance of light and darkness, as day and night are of equal length. These new songs celebrate both the gifts of identity bestowed by our families and the suffering that always seems to come with them. Can we see both the gifts and the pain as seeds of possibility for our collective growth into something new? This night at North Star Church of the Arts will include a Spring Equinox Altar, where you can bring a memento of your family identity, something that you want to live into, or something that, like a seed, needs to be broken apart and remade. Maybe its a photo. Maybe its a trinket of some kind. Well collect your possibilities on the altar at the start of the show, and at the end well go outside into the churchyard and bury them, plant them, with hope they will sprout into new life, metaphorically speaking. (Dont worry: You can rescue your memento before the planting if you prefer!)