Frances Luke Accord wsg Maeve & Quinn – South Bend, IN

Frances Luke Accord wsg Maeve & Quinn

Come join us for a night of amazing music at soUUnds South Bend! Frances Luke Accord, along with special guests Maeve & Quinn, will be live on stage.

This is an in-person event at First Unitarian Church of South Bend. When Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers put their songs and voices together, there is a delicate magic that commands the room to attention. The duo is known as Frances Luke Accord, and they are what NPR’s Mountain Stage calls “the definition of lean-in music.” Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music.

Both raised in South Bend, Gunty and Powers met and began performing together during their time at the University of Notre Dame. Their first release, Kandote, was a bold intercultural collaboration with the Barefoot Truth Children’s Choir in Uganda, a not-for-profit effort which continues to support the choir to this day. Relocating to Chicago in 2013, the duo honed their songwriting craft while releasing two more self-produced EPs, laying the groundwork for their breakthrough debut full-length, Fluke, in 2016. This immersive, philosophically rich album set them off on their first national tour, which included support dates with Darlingside, Anaïs Mitchell, and The Ballroom Thieves.

The duo released, “Sunnyside” EP in 2021 which offered a glimpse into the body of work Frances Luke Accord had been developing during the Covid pandemic. Their long-awaited sophomore LP “Safe in Sound” arrived in 2023. They look forward to sharing it with this home town audience!

Opening the evening is the Chicago duo MAEVE & QUINN. Described as “anything but ordinary” by the Chicago Tribune, this is the duo of Alaskan twin sisters Maris and Bryce O’Tierney, multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, and composers. maeve & quinn’s music fuses alt rock, pop, and folk influences, distinguished by lyrical vocal harmonies and dynamic instrumental interplay. Classically trained (voice, guitar, violin, piano), the duo also draws on improvisation in their practice. They promise a magical set.