Sun 12/8 @ 6:30PM
Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine started as a folk-rock ensemble 35 years ago in the midst of the heyday of that sound, when bands like 10,000 Maniacs and the Innocence Mission, as well as Cleveland bands such as the Walk-Ins, were performing wistful, melodic music with acoustic underpinnings. After three albums on I.R.S./EMI in the mid 1990s, the band pared down to the husband & wife duo of Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist who continued to put out new work on their own Great Speckled Dog label. They just released their first album in five years Hymn Time in the Land of Abandon, this year.
There’s something about their haunting, nostalgia-laden that seems oddly suited for Christmas. Their tunes ache with yearning for beauty, love and the comfort of home, family and friends, and often reverberate with the sadness of those yearnings unfulfilled. The three holiday albums they’ve released in the last 20 years, Detweiler says, “conjure up an unusual mix of feelings from childhood: innocence, loss, wonder, joy, sadness.”
While they make their home in rural southwest Ohio, they have enough of a loyal fan base in northeast Ohio to journey up to this end of the state for their annual holiday show. They’ll be back at the Kent Stage. Get tickets here.
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Kent, OH 44240