Frances Luke Accord, Eleni Paris Opens

When Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers put their songs and voices together, there is a delicate magic that commands the room to attention. The duo is known as Frances Luke Accord, and they are what NPR’s Mountain Stage calls “the definition of lean-in music.” Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music.

Both raised in South Bend, IN, Gunty and Powers met and began performing together during their time at the University of Notre Dame. Their first release, Kandote, was a bold intercultural collaboration with the Barefoot Truth Children’s Choir in Uganda, a not-for-profit effort which continues to support the choir to this day. Relocating to Chicago in 2013, the duo honed their songwriting craft while releasing two more self-produced EPs, laying the groundwork for their breakthrough debut full-length, Fluke, in 2016. This immersive, philosophically rich album set them off on their first national tour, which included support dates with Darlingside, Anaïs Mitchell, and The Ballroom Thieves.

A remote band since 2017, the duo’s DIY ethos has remained strong since Fluke. Still self-managing and producing, the duo has released two more EP’s, Silver & Gold (2019) and Sunnyside (2021)–the latter under their new label, Two-Dale Records–as well as a number of singles (most recently, “In My Life,” featuring Darlingside (Sept 2022)). Their long-awaited sophomore LP, Safe In Sound, will be released February 9, 2023, via Two-Dale Records and Tone Tree Music.

Just having released her first single in 2022, Eleni Paris takes her love for the intimacy of folk music and combines it with the intricacy of an orchestra as she envelopes us in choral harmonies and strings yet grounds us with traditional indie-folk elements.

Originally from the Bay Area, California, moved to Brooklyn, New York in high school, and is now a college student living in Cambridge, MA, Eleni Paris having performed at a few gigs in New York City, is excited to explore Boston’s music scene as well as the greater part of New England.