Watchhouse with Special Guest Charlie Parr at Door Community Auditorium

“Palliative but never boring, sweet but never cloying, worn but never tired.” – NPR

When they renamed their band Watchhouse, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz (formerly known as Mandolin Orange) retained the same fundamental power: two singers and musicians with profound chemistry, performing masterfully crafted songs that encompass the unknowable mysteries, existential heartbreak, and communal joys of modern life. Starting over a decade ago playing coffee shops and local restaurants around North Carolina, Watchhouse is a grassroots success story driven by Marlin’s poignant songwriting—music that “redefines roots music for a younger generation” (Washington Post). Special guest Charlie Parr is a Minnesota-born folk troubadour Clunk magazine calls “completely mesmerizing.”