The Barefoot Movement

Monday, November 18 | 5:00pm | Friends Pavilion

Acclaimed Americana group, The Barefoot Movement, is the brainchild of founding members Noah Wall and Tommy Norris. Emerging on the acoustic scene in 2011, they have continually navigated the alt-bluegrass waters through the years while refining that which gives them their particular sound. Invigorating and infused with a captivating honesty, The Barefoot Movement transports audiences to a place of complete enthrallment and creates gloriously addictive, instantly memorable tunes shored up by silky smooth bluegrass and Americana harmonies and laced with tantalizing flecks of bluesy grit.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The Barefoot Movement co-founders and married couple Noah Wall and Tommy Norris found themselves facing a decision in regard to the band; to call it quits, or to bring it through a renaissance and find a new way forward.  “Tommy and I started this band with a vision to be the ‘Fleetwood Mac’ of bluegrass”, explains Wall “in the sense that it would be a true four-piece band with multiple lead singers…I never talked publicly about Tommy and I being a couple, because I wanted to give every member we recruited their own identity within our band, and it wasn’t just about Tommy and I, that wasn’t important.” 

But the change turned into a new beginning for Wall and Norris, who are taking the opportunity to step out as the band’s front people, and further explore the possibilities of what The Barefoot Movement could be.  “It feels like the end of that Fleetwood Mac dream, but it has also challenged Tommy and me to get comfortable with sharing ourselves, and all of the different influences that we share both within and outside of Bluegrass. Historically, the songs we’ve recorded were primarily mine and Tommy’s, but co-arranged by whatever members we had at the time, so that had a big influence on which songs we chose to work up. But now that it’s back to just the two of us, I think we are finally ready to tell our story.”

Norris and Wall met in high school in Granville County, North Carolina, where Wall was involved in theater and also played the fiddle.  Norris had a rock band, and asked Wall to sing with them.  “I said no”, she laughs, “I was just too busy at the time!”.  But when Norris later brought a guitar to English class and performed as part of a school project, Wall was immediately taken by his abilities.  “I wrote him a seven-page letter begging him to play music with me”, she says.  Thus, the original barefoot movement was born.

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