Signature Sounds Presents
Darlingside at Black Birch Vineyard (Hatfield, MA)
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Tix Link:
https://www.simpletix.com/e/concerts-at-black-birch-vineyard-darlingsi-tickets-217224
Tix Price: $45 adv / $50 Doors
Door: 5:30
Showtime: 6:30
Everything Is Alive, Darlingside’s fourth LP, marks a subtle but remarkable departure for the Boston-based quartet NPR once described as “exquisitely arranged, literary minded, baroque folk-pop.” While the album retains much of the lushness and sophistication of Extralife (2018) and Fish Pond Fish (2020), the band’s latest work decisively exposes and differentiates the individual voices of the four songwriters—a daring reinvention for a group known for ubiquitous vocal harmonies. Grappling with change both personal and universal, with quandaries domestic and existential, Everything Is Alive is an album about loss and the struggle for a semblance of redemption.
Comprised of Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft, four likeminded multi-instrumentalists who first met at Williams College in 2009, Darlingside’s career has been defined by the elegance of their compositions and the unity of their four voices. Their talent for harmony and melodic world-building is part of what garnered praise from outlets like NPR, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker, and what has created demand worldwide for their extraordinary live performances. Becoming beautifully unindividualized has, in other words, worked very well for Darlingside in the past. With a vigor and discipline more common to graduate-level writing workshops than to indie rock, Darlingside has, over the years, experimented with all manners of idiosyncratic methods for elevating and upholding a truly democratic process of songwriting—processes that include multiple rounds of group writing and recording exercises—all with the aim of escaping the trap that bands with multiple songwriters often fall into: ego-driven infighting and artistic incoherence.
A few things to know:
Gates open at 5:30 PM, with the headliner taking the stage at 7:00 PM.
Enjoy a variety of food trucks on-site.
Wine by the glass, non-alcoholic beer, and sodas will be available for purchase.
Please note: outside alcohol is not permitted.
Coolers are not allowed.
Bring low-back lawn chairs or blankets for seating.
Carpooling is strongly encouraged to ease parking.
We can’t wait to host you!
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