Percy Hill
3s Artspace
319 Vaughan Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Sep 16, 2017
3:30 AM UTC
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ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 30 AT 10AMAn Evening with Percy HillSaturday, September 16Doors at 7pm / Show at 8pm$18 for Members / $20 Advance / $23 DOS21+ / StandingPercy Hill went from New England's best kept secret to legendary Jamband following the recording of their 1998 album Color in Bloom. The critically acclaimed release won a Jammy award for best studio album and earned the band high praise from publications like the Village Voice and Entertainment Weekly. Percy Hill's music drew favorable comparisons to Paul Simon, Sting and Steely Dan; and while their live shows earned them a spot beside the very best of the improvisational rock bands of the 90's and early 2000's (Phish, Widespread Panic, Disco Biscuits, moe., String Cheese Incident), they often claimed to be most at home in the studio. The success of Color in Bloom grew the bands popularity, leading to sold out shows and marquee festival slots from coast to coast. Now, a little more than 10 years after Percy Hill's last live performance, the band comprised of Joe Farrell, Aaron Katz, John Leccese and Nate Wilson has reunited to celebrate the critically acclaimed music the band created over that storied period of time. With sold out shows in Portland Maine and Boston Massachusetts and festival slots on 2017 Jamcruise Percy Hill is back and raring to go. Color in Bloom.
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Percy Hill Biography
The Percy Hill of the 21st century took shape in the year A.D. 1998, when founding members Farrell and Wilson recruited fellow University of New Hampshire-ers Katz and Leccese to round out the legacy they had begun to create in 1993 as one of the top jazz/rock/jam outfits to emerge from New England.
The four met in 1991 while studying jazz at the University and played together in myriad combinations before fate intervened.
Aaron Katz, already being spoken of as one of the best songwriters of the newer generation, brought with him a stable of over 90 minutely crafted, ultra melodic tunes with provocative lyrics drenched in colorful imagery and unforgettable hooks to fit tongue and groove with the already substantial and significant Wilson/ Farrell repertoire, while John Leccese's hypnotic bubble-bass sured up the bottom end. The result is essentially a great song oriented white soul group with fully realized improvisational tendencies, closer to what Entertainment Weekly Magazine calls "the scene's answer to Steely Dan."
After touring for the first half of '98, the band entered the studio in August to record their "already . . . classic" 1999 release Color in Bloom, which went on to win the Studio Album of the Year award at the First Annual 2000 Jambands.com "Jammy" awards, and has garnered nothing short of nationwide critical acclaim, being called "the most tightly focused, addictively listenable and downright accessible studio album made by and for the preppie-stoner cult to date."
On March 8 2005, Percy Hill released their second studio album titled "After All". Their cult-like fan base has been eagerly awaiting the release of "After All" for over five years.
In terms of sound, substance and spirit, Percy Hill is put on a level with Sting, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and the aforementioned Dan; some of the greatest, most enduring and most popular artists of our time. That's quite a company to keep. Percy Hill's talent brought them there, and is sure to keep them there for a long time to come.
Read MoreThe four met in 1991 while studying jazz at the University and played together in myriad combinations before fate intervened.
Aaron Katz, already being spoken of as one of the best songwriters of the newer generation, brought with him a stable of over 90 minutely crafted, ultra melodic tunes with provocative lyrics drenched in colorful imagery and unforgettable hooks to fit tongue and groove with the already substantial and significant Wilson/ Farrell repertoire, while John Leccese's hypnotic bubble-bass sured up the bottom end. The result is essentially a great song oriented white soul group with fully realized improvisational tendencies, closer to what Entertainment Weekly Magazine calls "the scene's answer to Steely Dan."
After touring for the first half of '98, the band entered the studio in August to record their "already . . . classic" 1999 release Color in Bloom, which went on to win the Studio Album of the Year award at the First Annual 2000 Jambands.com "Jammy" awards, and has garnered nothing short of nationwide critical acclaim, being called "the most tightly focused, addictively listenable and downright accessible studio album made by and for the preppie-stoner cult to date."
On March 8 2005, Percy Hill released their second studio album titled "After All". Their cult-like fan base has been eagerly awaiting the release of "After All" for over five years.
In terms of sound, substance and spirit, Percy Hill is put on a level with Sting, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and the aforementioned Dan; some of the greatest, most enduring and most popular artists of our time. That's quite a company to keep. Percy Hill's talent brought them there, and is sure to keep them there for a long time to come.
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