Live! Folklife Concert on the Road: Paper Wings

This is a free second performance thanks to our partner the Historic Salem Courthouse in Salem, Washington County, NY.

Long-time friends and collaborators Emily Mann and Wila Frank, known together as Paper Wings, dream up warm, pastoral folk songs furnished with delicate banjo and spellbinding harmonies so close you often can’t tell their voices apart. On their latest project, Listen to the World Spin, the Nashville duo’s songwriting flourishes, displaying their exceptional ability to reference nostalgic sounds of American folk music while maintaining their own compelling style of artful and unpretentious lyricism.

Embracing themes of solitude, nature, and passage through time and space, Listen to the World Spin is a beautiful exploration of how we are never alone in our search for meaning and certainty in difficult times. "We needed these songs to guide and comfort us through the last few years," says Frank, "And we hope theyll do the same for others." Listen to the World Spin was released on March 15th, 2024 with support from Free Dirt Records.

http://www.paperwingsband.com

Concerts are filmed at Crandall; excerpts are edited and posted on our YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/thefolklifecenteratcrandallpubliclibrary

Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted and produced by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library and made possible with funding to the Folklife Center from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor's office and the New York State Legislature.