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Foresters Find Their Way

His guitar at his waist, Evan Nork grinned out into the audience, edging towards the microphone in front of him. How’s everyone doing tonight?” he asked.

A few whoops rose from the back of the audience, where Nork’s friend Batman Kevin” sat nodding avidly, disguised behind a Halloween mask. Enthused and energized, Nork went to belt back another swig of his Sanpellegrino, giving a decided shrug of defiance when he realized the can was empty. After all, he and his bandmates had a show to get on the road.

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Nork is one-third of The Foresters, a Bethany-based band of three teenage brothers (Evan Nork, guitar, keyboards, and lead vocals; Hayden Nork, bass and aacking Vocals; Liam Nork, drums) who are ambling, note by sure note, towards the precarious edge of adult indiehood. Earlier this month, the band gathered at Lyric Hall with friends The Sleep Cozies and Quiet Giant to celebrate the release of its new CD, Sun Songs, now on bandcamp

There are two potential outcomes from musicians of this age: feeling like you are trapped in an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, or feeling like you are experiencing what will be the next wave of indie musicians in the city. Luckily, The Foresters fall in the second camp. Performing new songs like Everything is Temporary” and Machines” off of Sun Songs, the group totally charmed the audience, an experimental and ambitious edge to their young voices. As they played, you could envision their trajectory for the next five years: a paced budding into indie and lyrical maturity with shows at venues like BAR and Cafe 9 somewhere down the road. 

That was the audience’s takeaway, too. What a talented group of guys,” remarked Ian Applegate, online content manager with Town Green, who joined The Foresters for a few songs early in the evening. As he spoke about the boys’ merits, folks who are becoming fixtures in the city’s young indie music scene – Laundry Day’s Alex Burnett and If Jesus Had Machine Guns’ Jimi Patterson – gathered to cheer on the boys as they played.

This, it seems, is how knowledge is transferred, indie hand to indie hand. In an interview with the Independent a day before the show, the brothers had said as much, excited about their recent appearance in The Deli Magazine and ready to perform their newest, edgiest work yet.

I don’t think we’ve ever been this good. It feels great,” said Evan. 

Lyric Hall has been such a resource to us. We’re excited to share,” Hayden added.

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