The Almighty Yellow Star is a dream-folk trio rooted in New Haven and the Connecticut River Valley. Led by songwriter, poet, and visual artist Kierstin Sieser, the band makes music that reaches toward the devotional, the strange, and the luminous — an attempt to find holiness in everything, even the darkness.
Sieser honed her craft as bandleader of indie-folk outfit Tiny Ocean before stripping things down and getting deliberately more elemental, more devotional. Multi-instrumentalist Paul Belbusti brings percussion, guitar, and synths shaped by years with Mercy Choir and noise-rock duo Rivener, holding an uncommon balance between abstraction and constancy. Samantha Miller’s bass and vocals find the right place every time, an earned instinct that anchors the band’s most searching moments.
As music writer Jennifer Kelly observed, The Almighty Yellow Star makes “eerie, haunted folk music that is sparely instrumented but never minimal, the colors filled in by raw-boned bass, abstract percussion, guitar and Sieser’s trilling, hitching voice.”
LOCATION // theYURT
LIMITED SPACE, please register in advance
SUGGESTED CONTRIBUTION // $20-$40 sliding scale