I’m With Her – Standing On The Fault Line
Beloved folk trio I’m With Her – comprised of multi-GRAMMY winners (7 wins, 31 nominations collectively) Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins — will return next month with a stunning new record entitled Wild and Clear and Blue, out on May 9th via Rounder Records.
They recently shared “Ancient Light” and “Find My Way to You,” and today they released the heavy-hearted offering “Standing on the Fault Line.”
Unfolding with spectral guitar tones and gloriously raw vocal performance from Watkins, “Standing on the Fault Line” began in Echo Park as a meditation on weathering the climate change and financial instability of living Los Angeles, but turned into a bigger-picture question of when it’s time to give up on a dream – while noting that both staying or going is an equally courageous choice.
“‘Fault Line’ came from thinking about Los Angeles as a very transient place where many people feel a tension between whether to stick it out and stay or pack up and move on,” says Watkins, co-founder of Grammy-winning bluegrass powerhouse Nickel Creek. “Even if you’ve never been to L.A., I think a lot of people have had the experience of giving up on a dream and needing to pivot to something else.” Born from a melody brought in by O’Donovan, “Standing on the Fault Line” later evolved into a slow-building epic that reaches a thrilling intensity at the bridge, when I’m With Her’s harmonies achieve a spellbinding grandeur. “Initially we considered having me sing alone on the bridge, but it made the song feel so much smaller,” says Watkins. “Once Aoife and Jarosz took that section, it created this feeling of being supported by friends or ancestors or internal voices of encouragement—it’s like we subconsciously arranged the song in a way that aligns with all the lyrical themes of the album.”
Tour Dates
4/24 – Nashville, TN – Grimey’s
4/25 – Wilkesboro, NC – MerleFest
5/26 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso +
5/28 – London, UK – Rough Trade
5/29 – London, UK – Barbican +
6/5 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
6/6 – Bloomington, IN – Buskirk-Chumley Theater
6/7 – Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theater
6/8 – Grand Rapids, MI – Frederik Meijer Gardens
6/10 – Madison, WI – Capitol Theater
6/11 – Goshen, IN – Sauder Concert Hall
6/13 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
6/14 – St. Paul, MN – The Fitzgerald Theater
6/15 – Iowa City, IA – The Englert Theatre
6/17 – Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
6/19 Telluride, CO – Telluride Bluegrass Festival
7/10 – Interlochen, MI – Interlochen Center for the Arts *^
7/11 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre *^
7/12 – Asheville, NC – Asheville Yards Amphitheater *^
7/13 – Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheatre *^
7/15 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap *
7/16 – Westport, CT – Levitt Pavilion^
7/18 – Oak Hill, NY – Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival
7/19 – Portland, ME – Thompson’s Point *^
7/20 – Burlington, VT – The Green at Shelburne Museum *^
7/21 – Northampton, MA – The Pines Theater *^
7/23 – Richmond, VA – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden *^
7/24 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre *^
7/25 – Lafayette, NY – Beak and Skiff Apple Orchards *^
7/26 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
9/25 – Oklahoma City, OK – Tower Theatre
9/26 – Dallas, TX – The Majestic Theatre
9/27 – Austin, TX – Paramount Theatre
9/29 – Santa Fe, NM – The Lensic Performing Arts Center
10/1 – San Diego, CA – Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego
10/2 – Los Angeles, CA – Venue TBA
10/3 – Santa Barbara, CA – Campbell Hall
10/6 – Davis, CA – Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
10/8 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
10/9 – Bellingham, WA – Mount Baker Theatre
10/10 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
10/11 – Boise, ID – Egyptian Theatre
10/13 – Jackson, WY – Center for the Arts
10/14 – Aspen, CO – Harris Concert Hall
10/15 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
11/4 – Buffalo, NY – Asbury Hall
11/5 – Toronto, ON – Koerner Hall
11/7 – Princeton, NJ – McCarter Theatre Center
11/8 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Shubert Theatre
11/9 – York, PA – Venue TBA
11/11 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
11/12 – Rocky Mount, VA – Harvester Performance Center
11/14 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall
11/15 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
11/16 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
*co-headline with Iron & Wine
^ support from Ken Pomeroy
+ support from Keenan O’Meara
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