Orpheum Bell

Equipped With An Orchestral Ensemble Of Banjo Accordion Trumpet Xylophone Shepherd Harp Musical Saw Pedal Steel A Suitcase Pump Organ Cittern Guitar And Dobro Double Bass Foot Percussion Various Ukuleles And Mechanical Horned Violins Orpheum Bell Performs An Original “Country & Eastern” Songbook Of Lullabies Stomps Dirt-Road Ballads And Gypsy Suites And Waltzes. The Band Came Together In 2005 When Former Chicago Bandmates Serge Van Der Voo Aaron Klein Reconnected In An Old Michigan House To Trade Tapes And Listen. Combing Through The Ruins Of Originals Ideas And Melodic Fragments They Began To Develop A Lyrical Percussive Sound Driven By Klein’s “downtrodden Rural Poetry” And Van Der Voo’s Fluid Hot Club-Infused Bass Lines. read less