The Brook and the Bluff \u2014 a band from Birmingham, Alabama \u2014performed on the Anthony and Wright Administration Auditorium stage on Saturday, April 2. The band is now based in Nashville, Tennessee, and before starting their next tour on April 7, they stopped by Harding to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not what we usually do,\u201d drummer John Canada said. \u201cUsually we are traveling around the country doing our own headline shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston, etc. But whenever we get to come to colleges like this, it\u2019s always a pleasant surprise because it\u2019s places that we wouldn\u2019t otherwise get to go to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The band formed during lead singer Joseph Settine and lead guitarist Alec Bolton\u2019s senior year of college at Auburn University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[When] Joseph and I met at Auburn in 2012, we formed a cover band with some friends that fizzled out,\u201d Bolton said. \u201cThen we didn\u2019t play for a year, and senior year we reconnected and formed an acoustic duo that we ended up calling \u2018The Brook and the Bluff,\u2019 which comes from my hometown of Mountain Brook, and his is Bluff Park. The other three dudes are also all from Mountain Brook, so it all just fell into place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Brook and the Bluff was not a new name for many Harding students. Campus Activities Board (CAB) director Abby Stinnett booked the band because she heard from other students who had already seen them perform multiple times before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With The Brook and the Bluff booked, Stinnett contacted Harding\u2019s very own Rivers West to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI messaged them when I knew we were getting The Brook and the Bluff and thought it would be so cool for them to open,\u201d Stinnett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students were familiar with the band because of their performances in nearby cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI really liked all their music when I first started listening to them,\u201d junior Nicole Savage said. \u201cI first saw them in concert in Little Rock last October and then we went again when they played in Memphis in January.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concert was free and originally supposed to be outside, but was moved indoors because of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so mushy out there that it’s just not good for a stage,\u201d Stinnett said \u201cI thought it would be really fun to do an outside concert. It\u2019s outside. Outside is free. So it just didn\u2019t make any sense to charge people to sit outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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