Concerts & Events

Mipso formed in 2012 as an excuse to play together between classes in Chapel Hill. Joseph Terrell came from a family of banjo-playing uncles and a guitarist grandma, and he'd gotten curious again about the string band music he'd heard as a kid. Jacob Sharp was raised on equal parts Doc Watson and Avett Brothers in the mountains of North Carolina and he was hunting for a chance to sing some harmonies. Wood Robinson added a Charlie Haden-esque interest in bridging jazz and grass sensibilities on the double bass, and Libby Rodenbough soon joined on fiddle, unsatisfied by her classical violin training but drawn like a moth toward the glow of old, weird Americana.

Rock, country, indie-Americana: genre descriptors try but miss the point, which is that these four people and only these four people could make this music. Only a decade in the van could make this music. Only four personalities held in sustained, frictional balance could make this music with its sizzling energy and unlikely cohesion. These are searching, driving songs from a band that's still trying to say something different, still going somewhere new.

https://www.mipsomusic.com/