The Prairie Benders with Jarrett Killen at Artichoke Community Music – Portland, OR

The Prairie Benders album release with Jarrett Killen!

(For fans of Gillian Welch, Wilco, Neil Young)

The Prairie Benders songs navigate the terrain of life’s accumulated trauma with a vulnerability and beauty that somehow leave you feeling better about it all.

Portland folk rock band The Prairie Benders are celebrating the release of their second album, When Fences Go to Heaven, with a special show. Beyond their fiddle-forward sound, catchy melodies and sharp songwriting, they’ll be joined by Raymond Richards on pedal steel (Mazzy Star/ Mojave 3), Stephen Freeman Moore on banjo (The Good Long Whiles/ TapWater), and Olivia Horgan on second fiddle (The Celtic Light Orchestra/ Whole Grain Loafers), making this one of the most unique Prairie Benders performances to date.

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Opening the night is singer/songwriter Jarrett Killen, joined by an exceptional band of Portland musicians including Taylor Kingman (TK & The Holy Know-Nothings), Luke Messimer and Raymond Richards. Killen’s music is authentically his own, finding himself somewhere between an old honky tonk and a New Orleans funeral band.

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