Spirit Family Reunion

Spirit Family Reunion play homegrown American music to stomp, clap, shake and holler with. Ever since they started singing together on the street corners, farmer's markets and subway stations of New York City, their songs have rung-out in a pure and genuine way. When Spirit Family Reunion gather to sing, there is communion. Strangers and neighbors come to rejoice in the sound, and there is no divide between performer and spectator.
In a strange barroom or a grand music hall, at a barn dance or on the sunny street corner, Spirit Family Reunion keep the book open, and that old familiar feeling that was almost lost is again new.
Today the Family travels the States in their conversion van selling handmade CDs and songbooks for a few bucks or some good will in the jar.

Dusty acoustic guitars, wailing fiddles and weeping accordions, with a woozy-yet-skintight rhythm section—and topped off with burr-edged vocals that sound like they’ve been soaked in a Mason jar for generations—it’s the type of music that blurs the line between past and present so thoroughly, and so deftly, that time feels irrelevant.
Paste Magazine - Best of What’s Next

A Brooklyn-based band with a Southern soul and a rowdy, toe-tapping repertoire. Their music is a blend of front-porch Americana, old-time gospel and bluegrass. They sing about redemption, salvation and celebration.
WUNC North Carolina Public Radio

Brooklyn's favorite “bluegrass” band.
Huffington Post

The Brooklyn band kicks up a dusty blend of ragged string folk that recalls Woody and Pete, nods to Dylan and The Band and casts a sidelong glance to contemporaries like the brothers Felice and Avett... While much contemporary folk music is introspective, this is music meant to be sung along to, danced along to and shared with whoever is within earshot. I think you'll be hearing a lot more from Spirit Family Reunion.
Visible Voice

With lyrics containing subject matter including God, the Devil, hard living and of love lost, they never stray too far from the road laid out years ago on that end, but maintain a constant ability to keep everything fresh and modern with the energy in which they put it on display.
Friends With Both Arms

Rabble-rousing Brooklyn folkies Spirit Family Reunion deliver foot-stomping, throaty, joyful songs. We defy you not to tap along.
Time Out New York

Their modern-day update on Woody Guthrie has a dusty, wide-open sound, and the wooden instrument, claw hammer banjo-powered music is raw, honest and important.
Daily Freeman (Hudson Valley, NY)

The greatest asset of this band is how strongly their music compels you to join in.
Allston Pudding

Sounding like rail-riding hobos-turned union organizers, Spirit Family Reunion deliver ramshackle, sing-along melodies and hope for a better future. Guitar, banjo, fiddle and bass help songs chug forward with a new sincerity.
Independent Weekly (Durham, NC)

Spirit Family Reunion are an up and coming group steeped in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, dusty boots, and worn acoustic instruments... The band works because it doesn't discriminate from any sort of 'traditional' music, iconic folk's lyricism rubs up against zydeco rhythms and the Gospel hallelujah rides a top a claw-hammer banjo line.
DIY

Spirit Family Reunion are insanely good.
CMJ

VIDEOS:
When My Name is Spoken
I'll Find a Way
"The Importance of Protest Music"

Come see Spirit Family Reunion play every Wednesday in January at 10pm!