NOBO Concert Series presents: Eric Engblade Band – Live at The Livery on Friday, May 17th!

8:30pm show – “Honor Cover” ($10 suggested)

Eric Engblade is “Folk-Rock With Teeth”, a joyful Northern Michigan bequeath, pouring over the tug-o-war between wants and needs. His sound and songs are a soothing serenade, singing you to a place where apple pies cool on windowsills, and children play in cattails; accompanied by church bells ringing in the distance, where he warns to be weary of the “Enthusiastic, Evangelistic, Preacher Man”. Released in 2012 while fronting, booking, and managing The Northern Skies, ‘Thick As Thieves’ was hailed as a “homegrown, handmade work of art” (On The Town, Grand Rapids, MI).

He hollers, harmonizes, and whispers truths you wish to believe, transforming listeners to the Forests of Manistee, blanketed beneath the shadow cover of Jack Pines on a summer day, sippin’ coffee, pick’n wildberries, while your worries slip away. A natural storyteller, Eric Engblade offers his hand and insists you hold on while he takes you for a ride, wagons ablaze, seasons changing, with course curriculum: fact, fiction, and someone else’s lies.

His hopeful soul soothes and soars under skies blue, but his pragmatic skepticism posits the question of whether we’ll be able to make it through? Subdued rage, reasonable doubt, and existential meanderings which do not seek permission, but command attention, intention, and the choice between falling in line, or falling in love?