WOODSIST FESTIVAL 2023

Woodsist Festival returns to Arrowood Farms in Accord, New York on Saturday, September 23th-Sunday, September 24th. This year’s festival features Kevin MorbyKurt Vile and the Violators, Avery Tare, Woods, Cass McCombs, Bombino, Natural Information Society, Scientist, MJ Lenderman, Water from Your Eyes, Alabaster DePlume, Taper’s Choice, Daniel Higgs, Tyvek, Anna St Louis, Aquarium Drunkard DJs, and Tubby’s DJs. The 2023 lineup also showcases the largest number of artists to perform at the festival to date while ticket prices remain the same as in past years with fees capped as much as possible. Arrowood Farms, a sustainably-minded farm brewery and distillery located in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley, will host the performers on two alternating stages throughout the weekend and feature food from local Hudson Valley-based vendors and craft beer brewed directly on site. Tickets on sale now:  www.woodsistfestival.com.

We hope to see you on the farm, With Light and With Love.

 Arrowood Farms is located at 236 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord NY 12404. Tent and RV camping is available at the Rondout Valley Campground one mile away from the festival site. A carefully curated selection of local Hudson Valley-based food vendors will be on-hand serving all day long.

Line-up:

September 23, 2023

Kevin Morby / Avey Tare / Woods / Scientist / Cochemea / Tyvek / Taper’s Choice / Water From Your Eyes / Aquarium Drunkard DJs

September 24, 2023

Kurt Vile and the Violators / Cass McCombs / Bombino / Natural Information Society / MJ Lenderman / Alabaster DePlume / Daniel Higgs / Anna St. Louis / Tubby’s DJs

Woods Announce New Album, Perennial, Out September 15th and Fall U.S. Tour Dates

 

Woods share the new double single, “Little Black Flowers” b/w “Day Moving On,from their forthcoming album, Perennial, out September 15th on the band’s own Woodsist label, and expand their North American tour. This summer, Woods have teased Perennial through a steady stream of double singles, and today’s entry continues revealing the band’s shimmering soundscape. From source to seed to bloom, each loop unfolds into something unpredictable, from the jeweled pop of the aching “Little Black Flowers” to the elliptical grooves of “Day Moving On.” With each Perennial preview, Woods showcase the sound of a band on the edge of their 20th anniversary and still finding bold new ways to sound like (and challenge) themselves.

This fall, Woods will embark on a headline tour in support of Perennial, beginning with a performance at their own Woodsist Festival at Arrowood Farm in Accord, New York. As in previous years, Woods’ Jeremy Earl curated the eclectic lineup, tapping into his striking family of collaborators (and Woods alum) that have made the band one of the most dependable outfits in the kaleidoscopic low-key underground. The festival will also feature Kevin Morby, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Avery Tare, Cass McCombs, Bombino, Natural Information Society, Scientist, MJ Lenderman, Water from Your Eyes, Alabaster DePlume, Taper’s Choice, Daniel Higgs, Tyvek, Anna St Louis, Aquarium Drunkard DJs, and Tubby’s DJs. The following week, Woods will continue their tour through the Northeast, before embarking on a West Coast leg in November. A full list of dates is below.

 

Listen to “Little Black Flowers”

Listen to “Day Moving On”

 

Perennial grew from a bed of guitar, keyboard, and drum loops by Jeremy Earl, a form of winter night meditation that evolved into an unexplored mode of collaborative songwriting. With Earl’s starting points, he and bandmates Jarvis Taveniere and John Andrews convened, first at Earl’s house in New York, then at Panoramic House studio in Stinson Beach, California, site of sessions for 2020’s Strange To Explain. With a view of the sparkling Pacific and tape rolling, they began to build, jamming over the loops, switching instruments, and developing a few dozen building blocks.

Woods have long used the studio as a place of songwriting, naming 2007’s At Rear House after their shared dwelling and recording space. But Perennial also carries with it an even longer view of Woods. Emerging from the process alongside the music was Earl’s reflection that “perennial plants and flowers are nature’s loops,” an idea rolling under the album’s lyrics like the loops themselves. It certainly applies to the band, too, who have quietly tended to a long, committed project of being a band in the weird-ass 21st century, both individually and communally. Though separated by coasts, the communicable spirit carries through Earl, Taveniere, and Andrews’ collaboration, a living embodiment of the freedoms rediscovered every time a new collectively created piece of music emerges.

Formed in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, above and below the root, reliably emerging every few years with new music that grows towards the latest sky. Perennial carries all of this, shaped by decades, but made in the moment, and here right now. The smell of the flowers doesn’t remain, but sometimes the flowers do. 

 

Pre-order Perennial

Watch the “Between The Past” Video

Woods Tour Dates:

Sat. Sept. 23 – Accord, NY @ Woodsist Festival

Tue. Sept. 26 – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong

Wed. Sept. 27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

Thu. Sept. 28 – New York, NY @ Knitting Factory 

Fri. Sept. 29 – Portland, ME @ Apohadion Theater

Sat. Sept. 30 – Burlington, VT @ Radiobean

Mon. Nov. 13 – San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop

Tue. Nov. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon

Wed. Nov. 15 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s

Fri. Nov. 17 – Ojai, CA @ Deer Lodge

Sat. Nov. 18 – Big Sur, CA @ Fernwood

Sun. Nov. 19 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel

 

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