Sunday, July 28th. 3:30pm on the Main Stage
(My Birthday!)
Hey Marseilles is a musical group from Seattle, WA. Seattle Weekly has said that “the biggest reason Hey Marseilles stands out in Seattle’s saturated pop scene is its innate knack for crafting sincere songs that rise with anticipation and recede gracefully.”
The band was founded in 2006 by Nick Ward and Matt Bishop. The duo played together as students at the University of Washington, and were eventually joined by Ward’s roommate Philip Kobernik. Hey Marseilles now includes seven members:
Matt Bishop: lead vocals, guitar
Nick Ward: guitar, drumbourine, mandolin
Philip Kobernik: accordion, piano
Patrick Brannon: trumpet
Samuel Anderson: cello
Jacob Anderson: viola
Colin Riche: drums
Their first album, To Travels & Trunks, independently on 13 December 2008. It was ranked one of the best Northwest albums of the year. Seattle music blog Three Imaginary Girls said that it was one of their favorite (“if not [their] number one favorite”) albums of the year. In 2009, Hey Marseilles joined forces with the Fuzed Music subsidiary Onto Entertainment, a management company owned by Dave Meinert and Brent Stiefel, and managed by Christen Greene. The album was remastered and re-released nationally in the summer of 2010. A new track, “Gasworks,” was added for the re-release. On August 10, 2010, “Rio” was featured as NPR Music’s “Song of the Day.” The track was described as “a worldly chamber-pop gem marked by a full-to-bursting, jauntily percussive sound in which seven people politely clamor to be heard.”
On March 5, 2013, Hey Marseilles released their second full-length album, “Lines We Trace“.
Check out some of my favorite songs from this years line up on the CHBP 2013 playlist on Spotify. You can also view my personal Block Party Schedule!
