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GRACE POTTER &
THE NOCTURNALS
TO ROCK MARION POPCORN FESTIVAL
MARION, OH – Grace
Potter and the Nocturnals have
been named as the featured act for Friday, September 9,
at the Marion Popcorn Festival.
Country artist Jason Michael
Carroll has already been announced as the Saturday,
September 10, headliner.
Both will take the main
stage at 8:30 p.m., and their performances are free of
charge.
Named one of the Top New Bands
for 2010 by
Rolling Stone
magazine, Grace Potter’s striking vocals have been
compared to everyone from Janis Joplin to Bonnie Raitt,
Tina Turner, Grace Slick and Alison Krauss.
The band cut their teeth by
touring extensively and their live shows have been
touted to contain the same dynamic energy as a Bruce
Springsteen concert.
VH1’s Divas Salute the Troops in
December of 2010 saw Potter and her band steal the show.
MTV called the performance
of their hit single “Paris (Ooh La La)” “three and a
half minutes of pure adrenalized bliss.”
Immediately following the
show, viewers stormed and crashed Potter’s website,
www.gracepotter.com,
and Potter hit number 5 on Google’s Hot Searches.
Also immediately following
that concert, the band’s new self-titled release jumped
to number two on the iTunes Rock Album Chart and “Paris”
shot to Number seven on the iTunes Rock Song Chart,
setting a record that surpassed the Beatles.
Others may be more familiar
with Potter through her current collaboration with Kenny
Chesney on “You and Tequila”, a single from the country
star’s 14th
album Hemmingway’s Whiskey.
Still others may recognize
Potter’s “Something That I Want,” the theme song from
Walt Disney Picture’s movie “Tangled.”
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
will also be a featured band on PBS’s 3rd
season of “Live from the Artist’s Den.”
A brief history on the band:
Grace Potter grew up in Waitsfield, Vermont where
the singer, songwriter, musician began playing the piano
by the age of seven.
Influenced by the extensive record collection of
her parents, some 4,000 LPs, Potter was performing
locally by her late teens.
While attending St. Lawrence
University in upstate New York, Potter met drummer Matt
Burr at an open-mike session and, in 2002, formed Grace
Potter and the Nocturnals – so named because of their
late-night practice habits.
After becoming a trio with the
addition of guitarist Scott Tournet, the band released
their first album,
Original Soul, in 2004.
With the addition of bassist Bryan Dondero in
2005, the group released a second homemade album,
Nothing But the Water, which was well-received by the press.
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke stated that Potter
“is poised for bigger things.”
After signing with Hollywood Records late in
2005, Hollywood reissued
Nothing But the
Water for wider distribution in 2006; and in 2007,
the band put out This is Somewhere.
Adding bassist Catherine Popper
(coming aboard after Dondero left) and rhythm guitarist
Benny Yurco, 2010 saw the group solidifying their
neoclassic rock sound for their current album
Grace Potter & the
Nocturnals, which features the single “Paris”.
With a sound that’s been described
as everything from Roots Rock, Adult Alternative Pop
Rock, Indie Rock to Alternative Country Rock, Potter
herself has said, “We realized we’re not the kind of
band that’s ever gonna fit neatly in one genre, and
(with this new album) we just let the songs be the
songs.”
Potter continued, “We just naturally wound up
playing them in a certain way – they all have that beat
to them, a physicality and a mood.
You have to either want to dance to it or cry to
it. But
there’s also a feistiness to these songs that’s
completely unapologetic.”
“I wasn’t very familiar with Grace
Potter when they were first mentioned to me,” said
Festival President Mike Huffman.
“However, after entertainment committee chairman
Darl Snyder clued me into watching them on YouTube, I
said ‘Wow!
Book ‘em!’
They were tremendous and lived up to what Darl was
telling me … and I’ve been told their live shows are
absolutely fabulous.”
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