Maine
Maine band Ghost of Paul Revere has announced it is breaking up
PORTLAND, Maine — The band which wrote and carried out the track proclaimed the official state ballad introduced Monday evening that its summer season tour would be the final.
The Ghost of Paul Revere is asking it quits.
“It has been a wild trip crammed with an abundance of trials, tribulations and pleasure,” the band wrote in a Fb publish. “After we first acquired collectively eleven years in the past, we by no means might have imagined that we might be given the unbelievable alternative to share our music with all of you for this lengthy.”
Members of the band didn’t listing particular causes for ending their partnership.
“For the sake of our personal well being, our households and also you, our followers, we have now determined that this 12 months’s Ghostland pageant can be our final present,” they wrote.
Their Ghostland present is scheduled for Sept. 3 in Portland.
The Ghost of Paul Revere consists of banjo participant Max Davis, bassist Sean McCarthy and guitarist Griffin Sherry, who all met attending the identical southern Maine colleges as kids. The band was formally based in 2011.
“After we first acquired collectively eleven years in the past, we by no means might have imagined that we might be given the unbelievable alternative to share our music with all of you for this lengthy,” the band wrote of their social media publish on Monday. “Over 1200 exhibits, 400,000 miles, 46 states, 6 nations and (quickly to be) 9 albums later, our journey has lastly introduced us to the right here and now.”
The Boston Globe as soon as mentioned of the band, “The Maine-grown, foot-stompin’ holler-folk quartet create the kind of music for which festivals are made.”
Gov. Janet Mills signed a invoice naming the Portland-based people band’s “The Ballad of the twentieth Maine,” the state ballad in 2019.
Initially launched on the band’s 2015 album “Subject Notes, Vol. 1,” the track tells the story of Andrew Tozier, a real-life Litchfield native who was named color-bearer for the twentieth Maine Regiment throughout the Civil Warfare. Tozier was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery throughout the Battle of Gettysburg.
Earlier this 12 months, the Ghost of Paul Revere had over $10,000 price of kit stolen from their van whereas on tour in Colorado. Their followers tripled that quantity in only a few hours through a web-based fundraiser.
Of their social media publish on Monday, band members thanked their supporters and promised to remain in contact.
“The songs and music will all the time be there to share and luxuriate in with each other,” the band wrote. “We’re excited to journey into the subsequent chapter of our lives and can proceed to maintain everybody posted about our future, particular person endeavors.”
BDN reporters Emily Burnham and David Marino Jr. contributed to this report.