Spring Concert Schedule

Thanks for joining our newsletter! This spring, we are excited to return to a few of our favorite coffeehouses, theatres, and even visit Matfield Green in the Flint Hills of Kansas. See performance dates at: http://www.vogtssisters.com/p/events.html OUR MUSIC REVIEWED: The Pittsburg Appeal - Music Review: The Vogts Sisters @ Root Coffeehouse, by Jeremy Johnson "Coffeehouse concerts can give off an “open mic night” vibe–i.e., informal and amateurish, the sort of thing musicians and listeners try to avoid. Musicians have to battle with screaming espresso machines for the audience’s attention. Sometimes nobody shows up but the musicians. Occasionally there’s awful poetry. In short, they can be a sad ordeal. - None of this was present at Root Coffeehouse on Friday night when the Vogts Sisters (pronounced “votes”) took the stage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... they manage to work in menace, fear, regret, and doubt amidst the light, and it’s a fuller, more honest, more human range of emotions. And that’s what makes them so luminous." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Their instrumentation is various combinations of acoustic guitar, violin, and mandolin. The style is unadorned and simple, but therein lies its power, as it acts as a base for their most prominent feature: the vocals. "The sisters sing in well-matched soprano (Abigail) and alto (Maggie), and every song is marvelously harmonized and skyward-reaching. And with this framework, the sisters conjure images of haunting clarity. "It’s this understated darkness lurking at the edges of the sisters’ work that lends it some of its greatest value. The temptation here might have been to use their lush voices to make everything goopy sickly sweet, all bright and glistening surfaces–there’s a lot of music in this style that does just that, all glitter and no substance–but they don’t take the bait." Read the entire review at: http://pittsburgappeal.com/2016/02/16/music-review-the-vogts-sisters-root-21216/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO: This month we'll be working to record our third album. We're thrilled to be able to share our new songs with you in this way and hope to release the album in early June. Stay tuned for more information in the weeks ahead. Also on our summer calendar are two out-of-state tours, when we'll take our music to Colorado and Arkansas. As a family, we've enjoyed many camping trips to Colorado and are super excited to be able to return to the Rocky Mountains in June with our truck loaded to full-capacity and our instruments in tow. In August, we'll travel deep into the Ozark mountains to perform at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountainview, Arkansas. Watch for more information about these tours in the months ahead. Until then, visit our Website where you can access all of our updates and our entire music schedule. Or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. As always, thanks for your continued friendship and support. It means so much to us! The Vogts Sisters - Maggie & Abigail