{"id":7,"date":"2012-08-20T04:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-02-11T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T23:04:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Starfolk <\/strong>make melody-rich chamber pop music that rocks in front man Brian Tighe&#8217;s quintessentially ethereal way.&nbsp; Tighe fronted power-pop darlings <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thecurrent.org\/2013\/06\/artist-of-the-month-the-hang-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hang Ups<\/a> in the 90&#8217;s, co-fronted bittersweet girl-boy poppers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vub28gr58A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Owls<\/a>&nbsp;starting in the aughts,&nbsp;and also plays lead guitar with the belovedly hush-toned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127367883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Messersmith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTighe still boasts that distinctively airy tenor and a penchant for setting beautiful vocal melodies atop unusual chord progressions \u2014 recently described with rightful awe by Messersmith as \u201clike doing ballet in a minefield.\u201d In fact, The Starfolk achieve a far broader sound than that of their frontman\u2019s power-pop past.\u201d&#8211;Rob Van Alstyne, City Pages<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Starfolk left to right:&nbsp;Jacqueline Ultan (cello), Brian Tighe (guitar, vocals), Allison LaBonne (bass guitar, vocals)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?attachment_id=828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TSF-032a-1-1024x879.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TSF-032a-1-1024x879.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TSF-032a-1-300x258.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TSF-032a-1-768x659.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; 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Tighe fronted power-pop darlings The Hang Ups in the 90&#8217;s, co-fronted bittersweet girl-boy poppers The Owls&nbsp;starting in the aughts,&nbsp;and also plays lead guitar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?page_id=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}