Folk-pop duo highlights Saturday town hall concert
The folk-pop duo Coed Pageant will perfom at the Bluffton town hall on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. along with Trevor Bechtel and Chris Jennings. Prior to the music will be a Fall Equinox Dinner celebrating delicious local food, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick of the Bluffton village cultural affairs committee.
Chappell-Dick describes the performers this way:
Bradley and Gretchen Bergstrand formed their folk-pop band Coed Pageant with the idea of recording four EPs in one year, one for each season. Now three seasons into that project they've quit their day jobs, moved out of their apartment and holed up in a holler in the hills of southern Indiana as they focus on writing and recording their fall EP.
Their sound finds a creative balance between straightforward narrations, catchy melodies, folky tendencies, atypical harmonies, and sundry vocal arrangements. Coed’s music contains traces of the environments where the songs were created, exposing the band’s organic songwriting and song-building process.
However, through the duo’s uniquely paced narratives and ambitious composition, the songs convey a much larger and grander scope than one might expect from a two-person band.
Joining Coed Pageant is Trevor Bechtel with guest Chris Jennings. Bechtel is described as a singer/songwriter who makes money teaching theology or a theologian who wishes he were a rock star. Inspired by the natural world, beauty, peace and time, Trevor is a transcendental songwriter in the tradition of The Innocence Mission. (Water Hill Music Festival) Bechtel is the creative director of Anabaptist Bestiary Project and half of the Frap Rock duo Several.
The musical entertainment will be preceded by a Fall Equinox Dinner, which includes a local produce and pumpkin soup. A selection of fall desserts will be available with dinner, or served separately with a warm beverage during the concert. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m., while desserts will be offered throughout the evening. The music will begin at 7 p.m.
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