Monte Pride & Kaysen Chown at The Robin

8PM show, 7:30 doors

All ages, $20 adv

*BYOB* from Sleepwalker! REO Town is a social district, which allows our concert-goers to carry beverages from our favorite little brewery/pizzaria, Sleepwalker (next door to venue). 

*COVID-19 Policy* Please stay home if you're feeling unwell. Vaccinated folks = mask optional. Masks required if unvaccinated. We recommend that attendees wear masks when not actively drinking.

About the artists:

Monte Pride is a Michigan-born, Michigan-based singer-songwriter & fingerstyle guitarist whose songs recall the delicate vocals of Simon & Garfunkel, with guitar-work reminiscent of Nick Drake and The Tallest Man on Earth. He blends haunting melodies with vivid lyricism, bringing stories of love, loss, and longing to life in a complex array of healing, soul stirring song. Monte has supported Michigan favorites like Joshua Davis, Luke Winslow King, Breathe Owl Breathe, Gifts or Creatures, Escaping Pavement, The Ragbirds, and Michelle Held, and has performed at Wheatland Music Festival, the Ten Pound Fiddle Concert Series, Earthwork Harvest Gathering, Buttermilk Jamboree, Holler Fest, and Pumpstock.

Video 1: https://youtu.be/wiQxX9nbd6U

Video 2: https://youtu.be/i-SdSARArjg

Artist website: montepridemusic.com

Monte's new, sophomore album, “Even in Absence," was released on August 21, 2020. The record, postponed from April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, presents healing songs to remind that experience, relationships, lives, their love and light persist, “Even In Absence”. Themes of loss & resilience, trial & growth, culmination & change surface at the album’s center as Pride’s rich tenor voice, vivid songwriting, accomplished fingerstyle guitar technique, and lush arrangements spellbind. Monte Pride tracked the songs over a 12-month period throughout the state of Michigan. The album involved many active artists in the state’s music community, featuring Sam Cooper, Brandon & Bethany Foote (Gifts or Creatures), Drew Howard, Mark Lavengood, Max Lockwood (May Erlewine, Big Dudee Roo), Laurel Premo (Red Tail Ring), and others. Pride worked at La Luna Recording & Sound in Kalamazoo with Ian Gorman, Third Coast Recording Company in Grand Haven with Joe Hettinga, Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor with Elan Dantus and Timothy Monger, and Troubadour Recording Studio in Lansing with Jon Herrmann.