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Fairground Saints to open for Carly Rae Jepsen
Fairground Saints is a pop band based out of Los Angeles. The group's influences include Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and Ben Folds.
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Country trio Fairground Saints are opening for Carly Rae Jepsen on March 8 at the Granada as part of Jepsen's "Gimmie Love" tour. Based out of Los Angeles, the band includes Megan McAllister, Mason Van Valin and Elijah Edwards. And their music career is only getting started.
The band's self-titled debut album released last August, and its upbeat folk-
pop sound has garnered praise from Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post. The standouts on their selftitled record include "Can't Control The Weather" and "Turn This Car Around."
Simply by chance, the group came together by nothing other than a mere Facebook post. Before McAllister came along, Van Valin and Edwards were a separate musical duo. Edwards and Van Valin met through Facebook and found McAllister on YouTube. Edwards and Van Va-
Their charisma and chemistry in their music transcends over to their music taste, or to simply who is on the aux cord during a car ride.
lin wanted a third member, and from there, Fairground Saints was born. The group started making songs for its first album and then went on to sign a record deal with Verve and Universal Records.
"It just felt right," McAlister said.
"When we get in the car and are all driving together,
it doesn't matter who has the iPod," Van Valin said. "No one ever complains. When you're with your family, someone is always yelling, 'Turn that off.' We all kinda like the same things. I'm not a big fan of jazz, but Elijah is always showing me what he likes, and that turns into us all liking the same thing."
The group has a choice group of influences that includes Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and Ben Folds.
ture of genres like alternative, pop, and folk didn't come about by accident, though. Edwards said the band is open to all styles of music when writing songs.
"It's important in the sense that if you sit down and try to become something you aren't, you're doing yourself a disservice," Edwards said. "We didn't sit down and shoot for one certain genre. We just sat down and wrote songs. Look how diverse the songs are."
Fairground Saints' mix-
Edwards added: "We
are just songwriters. If you focus on writing good songs, then the record will be whatever you want it to be. You can't really pin the artist or pin the sound, and that's our goal. We don't want to be pinned to one genre."
Tickets are still available at thegranada.com and at the Granada's box office located at 1020 Massachusetts St. for $25 in advance or $28 the day of the show.
- Edited by Matthew Clough
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