What People Are Saying About Chris Overholser & Night Tree

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"Just jaw-dropping … One of the most exciting roots-based music groups to emerge ... in many years. Their individual chops and adventurous approach make Night Tree a band to watch for” 

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- Brian O’Donovan, Executive Producer and host of WGBH's nationally broadcast award-winning program "A Celtic Sojourn"

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“They play with such spark and musicality. Thoughtful compositions, precise, inventive arrangements. An absolute joy. Go hear them!”

 

– Seamus Egan, founding member of Celtic Supergroup "Solas" and Executive Producer on Night Tree's debut and second CDs

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“Night Tree is six extraordinary musicians who pool their diverse musical backgrounds to create a Celtic-tinged fusion the likes of which the world has never heard before.” 

 

 – Hankus Netsky, New England Conservatory of Music 

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“This sextet both relaxes and fuels the spirit with songscapes that compel you to listen again and again.”

 

– Susan Ritta, host of Thunder on the Plains, KZUM

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“Over the past 25 years ... there have been some pretty fantastic moments – (but) none more electrifying than when you took the Main Stage at noon this year ... at the end of the journey, we were speechless. There was nothing to do but stand in spontaneous applause, dumbly acknowledging our collective debt of gratitude.

 

Night Tree brings shockingly new idioms to the time burnished language and form of irish/celtic world music, at once honoring the the traditions and pushing their boundaries with infusions of fresh sound from parallel universes ... notes and rhythms of classical, klezmer, jazz from the world over are like fresh oxygen blown onto hot coal. It was a firestorm ... 

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I have never seen anything like it. . . like having Bruce Springsteen open for a local band at a high school dance.”

 

– Bob Eddy of The Herald Times, writing about Night Tree's Labor Day concert on the Main Stage of The New World Festival - Randolph, Vermont