The Lone Bellow (Acoustic) w/ Naia Izumi
Tuesday 23rd Oct, 2018
DSP Shows Presents The Lone Bellow w/ Naia Izumi Live in Asbury Hall
Tickets: $27.50 advance / $30.00 day of show – Reserved Seating show
On sale Friday May 18th at 10:00am at Ticketfly.com, Babeville Box Office (M-F 11a-5p), or charge by phone 877.987.6487
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
The Lone Bellow
It’s been six years since The Lone Bellow was first formed by Zach Williams, multi-instrumentalist Kanene Donehey Pipkin and guitarist Brian Elmquist. But one only needs to get the lead singer and guitarist speaking to their songwriting process to witness firsthand just how passionate he remains about its teeming creativity. “It’s a beautiful process,” the effusive singer says of the almost epiphany-like manner in which the band typically translates its vivid ideas to melodies and lyrics.
With Walk Into A Storm, their third studio album, due on Sept 15, the band turned inward like never before. “We covered such a broad range of emotion on the album,” Elmquist says of the raw, intimate and undeniably soulful Dave Cobb-produced LP recorded in Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A. The 10-track album, Elmquist says, is centered on “the human condition and how you’re trying to connect with it,” and features some of the band’s most poignant material to date.
Naia Izumi
Naia Izumi is a 34-year-old musician from Columbus, Ga. who now lives in Los Angeles and busks on that city’s streets.
Izumi got his first guitar as a child — he estimates he was between eight and 10 years old — and began to experiment immediately. Though he quickly became obsessed with making music, Izumi says wasn’t always encouraged to pursue his passion. While his mother, a part-time choir director, supported it, his father didn’t want him to play. “I had to hide that guitar in my closet,” he remembers.
He now prides himself in making declarative music, writing songs that are a stark contrast to his timid personality — but Izumi, who has openly discussed living with autism, says that music is his refuge.
