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Virginia Coalition Presents Home This Year Diverse Influences Come Together with a New Heartfelt Sound
Virginia Coalition is a band that has made its reputation with the blazing energy of its live shows and ability to play almost any style of music. Home This Year sees the band moving in a new direction. They’ve blended their diverse influences into a sound all their own with a maturity and attention to detail that shines on every track.
The band’s core members - Andy Poliakoff, lead vocals, guitar; Paul Ottinger, keyboards, percussion, guitar, vocals and Jarrett Nicolay, bass, guitar, banjo, vocals – have always delighted fans with their ability to confound expectations. On previous albums, their songs often featured arrangements that veered off in unanticipated directions moving from funk to rock, from go go to soul. “It’‟s good being eclectic,” says Poliakoff, the band’s main lyricist and frequent spokesperson. “It keeps you on your toes musically, and it’s fun, but we wanted to get back to some serious songwriting. In the past few years, we were writing for the live shows, endless groove things that are far from what we wrote when we were starting out. We wanted to get back to that original creative impulse and focus on our songwriting.”
The band ventured cross country to California and got to work, challenging themselves to find a more emotionally intense means of expression. “There’s a value to the time you put into a project,” Poliakoff explains.
Virginia Coalition is a band that has made its reputation with the blazing energy of its live shows and ability to play almost any style of music. Home This Year sees the band moving in a new direction. They’ve blended their diverse influences into a sound all their own with a maturity and attention to detail that shines on every track.
The band’s core members - Andy Poliakoff, lead vocals, guitar; Paul Ottinger, keyboards, percussion, guitar, vocals and Jarrett Nicolay, bass, guitar, banjo, vocals – have always delighted fans with their ability to confound expectations. On previous albums, their songs often featured arrangements that veered off in unanticipated directions moving from funk to rock, from go go to soul. “It’‟s good being eclectic,” says Poliakoff, the band’s main lyricist and frequent spokesperson. “It keeps you on your toes musically, and it’s fun, but we wanted to get back to some serious songwriting. In the past few years, we were writing for the live shows, endless groove things that are far from what we wrote when we were starting out. We wanted to get back to that original creative impulse and focus on our songwriting.”
The band ventured cross country to California and got to work, challenging themselves to find a more emotionally intense means of expression. “There’s a value to the time you put into a project,” Poliakoff explains.
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Johnny Wonder
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Sing ALong
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Stella
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Walk to Work
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Nicole's Song
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Jam 2
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Green And Grey
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Likeness
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Jerry Jermaine
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Mason Dixon
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sarahhhjaneee wrote:
they're awesome
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siuvhne wrote:
The worst concert of my life ... Dave Matthews at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in VB ... July 2006 ... a band I had never heard of playing on the side stage named Virginia Coalition made the whole hideous ordeal worth it.
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PUCIKKO wrote:
SING ALONG..
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AtMorphine wrote:
Saw these guys live a couple years ago. They're great... glad my buddy from Maryland introduced me to their stuff.
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JDMcNugent wrote:
Love these guys...
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rrachell wrote:
so good.
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DeadSoulFreak wrote:
Hey guys! Thanks for having SeepeopleS open up for you! See you next time.
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