On Thursday, July 9, Wisconsin-based indie roots band Field Report will perform their passionately lyrical music at Door Community Auditorium. Rolling Stone says that Field Report creates “enchanting, evocative story songs.”
Field Report is based around Chris Porterfield, a Milwaukee-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter—in fact, the name “Field Report” is an anagram of “Porterfield.” The Milwaukee-based Porterfield cut his musical teeth with DeYarmond Edison (a collaboration with Bon Iver and Megafaun). Since that group disbanded, Porterfield has performed his crafty, poignant story songs with Field Report, who are currently touring the country in support of their new album, Marigolden.
The San Francisco Bay-Guardian writes that Porterfield’s “retrospection and emotionality…will make you want to melt into his world.”
Field Report recorded their debut album in December of 2011 at the studio owned by Justin Vernon (also known as Bon Iver). That debut album was released in 2012 to great popular and critical acclaim. In December 2013, the band retreated to snowy Ontario to record their most recent release, Marigolden, which moves easily between catchy hooks and elegant melancholy, all the while finding its center in Porterfield’s dense lyricism.
At DCA, Field Report will perform as a trio. Frontman Porterfield will join Thomas Wincek and Shane Leonard to elicit a complex but direct sound that Nylon calls “pure stripped-down gorgeousness.”
Field Report’s performance is made possible by several sponsors, including presenting sponsor The Peninsula Pulse. The show’s major sponsors are Blue Horse Beach Café and Parkwood Lodge, and the supporting sponsors are Ecology Sports and Base Camp Coffee, Maxwelton Braes, and Tapuat Kombucha.
Field Report will perform at DCA at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 9. Tickets for the concert range from $16 to $28. Advance reservations are recommended and can be made through the DCA box office, located at 3926 Highway 42 in Fish Creek. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in person, on the phone at (920) 868-2728, or online at www.dcauditorium.org.
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