Laurel Premo & Nic Gareiss

Genre: Traditional Folk, Old Time Music

You won’t want to miss the unique folk stylings of Laurel Premo & Nic Gareiss at their first time on an A2SF stage! Gareiss is a singer and step dancer, hailed by the New York Times for his “dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance” and called “the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald. A resident of Lansing, Michigan, Gareiss received the 2020 Michigan Heritage Award, the state’s highest honor bestowed on traditional artists. They are joined by Laurel Premo, known for her rhythmically deep delivery of roots music on finger-style electric guitar, lap steel, fiddle, and voice. Premo has spent her life immersed in American and Nordic folk traditions including at both the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland and the University College of Southeast Norway in Telemark. She is a Michigan-based artist who has been writing, arranging, and touring since 2009 with vocal and instrumental roots acts, and is internationally known from her duo Red Tail Ring. Her 2021 solo release, ‘Golden Loam’, continues Laurel’s sonic raising of old wild landscape, with ruminant power, a masterful use of space, and dynamic waves of warm, gritty sustain. “Subtle but dazzling and rich in texture. Watching a live performance is pure hypnosis.” – MTV. This special collaboration is sure to be one for the old-time music ages!