Today we’d like to introduce you to Tigerman Woah.
We’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
Tigerman Woah began as a couple of underemployed friends learning songs off the American Anthology of Folk Music and the George Mitchell Collection and has become a locally celebrated brotherhood dedicated to making music that moves people into mosh pits and onto picket lines.
Half of us came up in Atlanta, half of us came up on the North Shore. We met at a 35 person capacity bar in Lynn and decided to record what became our first EP just so we could have something to remember it by. We knew right away that our two sets of old friends could make something bigger than the sum of its parts. In other words: it was fun, so we decided to try being a band.
We’ve been incredibly lucky since day one. Finding each other as we did was bizarre enough, but finding a way to make music together for as long as we have is truly a blessing.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
Tigerman Woah is a 4-piece rock and roll band based out of Lynn, MA. Somewhere between Woody Guthrie and Motorhead, we took the trendy nostalgia for the great early music of the U.S. South and Appalachia and combined it with the punk and rock and roll we were raised on.
We mostly write about what we see around us – working class people doing what they can to get by, connecting to histories we don’t hear about in school, all kinds of different people celebrating their cultures and building a new one together. We know that we don’t live in the world we all want to see, and and we know that we won’t build it in our lifetime. But we also know that we need hope and that we need faith in peoples’ ability to work together, to build together, if we’re ever gonna make that world our own.
Artists face many challenges, but what do you feel is the most pressing among them?
One problem facing artists today is the same problem that faces every artist of every day – funding. We all have jobs so we can pay the bills, and we make sacrifices for the privilege of making music. We also see opportunities for local musicians shrinking as more and more venues close to making room for new condos and speculators’ profits.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
We just released a new EP – “Do It All Again” that’s available, as well as our previous releases, for download and streaming wherever you download and stream things. We’re also on the usual suspects of social media sites @tigermanwoah. But the best place to see our work is at one of our shows (check out www.tigermanwoah.com/shows for listings). Like with any band you like, the best way to support us is to spread the word. Bring a friend or two with you next time you see us.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.tigermanwoah.com
- Phone: 781-469-0948
- Email: tigermanwoah@gmail.com
- Instagram: @tigermanwoah
- Facebook: facebook.com/tigermanwoah
- Twitter: twitter.com/tigermanwoah
Image Credit:
the logo is by “Banker” video creator Tyler Samardick. The carving of the heads is by Rebecca Hornstein, Live shot from Opus by Wayne Gatchell
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