Join us for this phenomenal double bill featuring two singer/songwriters Todd Hearon and Other Brother Darryl!
ABOUT TODD HEARON
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No stranger to the Word Barn, Hearon is an award-winning poet, songwriter and dramatist whose two albums, Border Radio (2021) and Yodelady (2023), have garnered accolades from American Songwriter magazine and the 2024 International Acoustic Music Awards. Writes Chris Hislop in Seacoast Online, “Todd Hearon is proof that good folkin’ country singers still walk among us. Somewhere from the great beyond, Townes Van Zandt has happened on Todd's tunes . . . and felt his cheeks go flush with envy.” His third album signals a new musical departure, mixing his love of traditional roots music with more contemporary alt-country and Americana sounds. It was produced by the legendary Don Dixon and recorded in Mitch Easter’s iconic Fidelitorium Studio in North Carolina. Stay tuned for singles releasing this summer!
Hearon will be joined by a full band including Andrew Blowen (keyboards, accordion), Lindsay Garfield (vocals, percussion), Alex Keenan (pedal steel), Rick Habib (drums), Ralph Sneeden (electric guitar) and Geoff Taylor (bass).
ABOUT OTHER BROTHER DARRYL
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Other Brother Darryl are an eight-piece Boston-based alt-country supergroup, winners of the 2024 Boston Music Award for Country Artist of the Year. Calling their sound cosmic canyon rock, the band is made up of veteran singer-songwriters and local luminaries: Dan Nicklin (vocals, harmonica, percussion), Nate Leavitt (vocals, acoustic guitar), Dan Cederholm (drums), Chad Raleigh (multi-instrumentalist), Derek Feeney (acoustic guitar), Dave Lieb (piano, vocals), Matt Odabashian (organ) and Jim Collins (bass, vocals), with the enduring spirit of their late brother Dave Mirabella as inspiration and guidance.
The roots of Other Brother Darryl stretch back to 2012 at Somerville’s beloved (and now defunct) club Radio, where each member crossed paths regularly with their own projects. Bonded by a shared love of big folk harmonies, the cosmic country of CSNY, The Jayhawks and Wilco, and even a wink to the TV series Newhart, the band carried on an unspoken promise: that one day they’d bring their collective vision to life.
That promise arrived with the release of their debut album Roll Shine Roll in February 2025, recorded at Nicklin’s Henley Row Studios. The eleven-song set is a meditation on resilience, loss, and brotherhood, dedicated to Mirabella, who passed away suddenly in 2022. Praised as “deep as Music from Big Pink by The Band” (Vivascene), the album has since surpassed 30,000 streams, with the single “Watch the Trees” alone passing 10,000 streams and earning rotation on Boston’s premier Americana station, WUMB.
Momentum has continued to build with each step. The band were finalists in the storied Rock & Roll Rumble, released a mini-documentary about their origins, rolled out six singles from Roll Shine Roll, which in addition to “Watch the Trees,” included “Until I Do,” “Sometimes,” and “The Ballad of Joni & Graham,” which have established their reputation as torchbearers for authentic Americana and alt-country. The year of the album’s release, the band was nominated for two Boston Music Awards, in the Americana Act of the Year and Video of the Year (for “Watch The Trees”) categories.
Onstage, Other Brother Darryl have become fixtures in the New England scene and beyond: appearing at the New England Americana Festival, the Outlaw Music Festival (Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Wilco) at BankNH Pavilion, and the Underwater Sunshine Festival curated by Adam Duritz of Counting Crows. They’ve also shared bills with acts like Deer Tick and Will Dailey, further cementing their standing as a band that thrives both in the studio and live.
With sophomore album Hey Yeah Hey arriving in June 2026, Other Brother Darryl remain committed to carrying their cosmic canyon rock forward. A sound born of friendship, community, and the belief that real music played by real people, for good people, still matters