Weirs- Diamond Grove

Weirs' Diamond Grove, masterfully darned together by servant-leader Oliver Child-Lanning, forges traditional stringed instrumentals with turkey calls and found-sound tape loops into a beat-up Appalachian music relic, oozing with bucolic acapellas and an irrepressible creative communion. The 20-minute "Lord Bateman" groans and shrieks like weathered barbed wire, riveting the raw scrape of sheet metal against fiddle bows to the pump organ’s undying hum. It’s an apocalyptic squall that transcends traditional folk and experimental noise into a boundless, joyous exaltation.