The audience bid farewell to the Arcadian Wild’s Isaac Horn Tuesday night in Shamblin Theatre.
But only for three months.
The indie-folk group, composed of junior Sarah Wood, senior Everett Davis, sophomore Horn and Lipscomb graduate Lincoln Mick, put on their last show of the semester just a day before Horn will get on a plane to Vienna to study abroad. Also on the line-up for the evening was Brother Parker and Nordista Freeze.
“It hasn’t quite settled in that I’m going to be on the other side of the world in 24 hours,” Horn said.
The group welcomed Horn in the fall of 2014, when he moved from Jonesboro, Arkansas to begin his first semester at Lipscomb.
“Since I’ve been at Lipscomb I’ve been playing with the Arcadian Wild, so it’s going to be odd to have a significant portion of the year completely absent of that,” Horn said.
Wood said that spending a few months not playing together will be something different for the group.
“We’ve become like a little family, so to kind of take a break from it for a little period of time is going to be really weird, but I think it will be good,” Wood said.
While Horn is studying abroad the group will not play any shows. For music major Davis, he said the break came just in time. As he prepares to graduate in May, he is also getting ready for an audition at Belmont for graduate school, along with his senior music recital.
Horn, on the other hand, said he is looking forward to being somewhere completely new.
“I anticipate it being a peaceful experience — a quiet experience,” Horn said. “I’m trying not to go in with a lot of expectations though. I’m just planning on taking it day by day and it’s going to fly by like most things do.”
When Horn returns the band will kick off a nation-wide house concert tour. Mick said the band wanted to do something different for this summer’s tour, so they put together a house-concert application form on their website.
“We kind of put control in other people’s hands, as far as where we go and who we share our music with, instead of us creating a road map and trying to make a bunch of locations work,” Mick said.
The band will take their music to anyone’s living room and collaborate with friends and family to create the tour schedule.
“It’s been a humbling process so far and we’re still in the middle of it, but it’s neat because we’re going to places we would never think to go, like shows in Seattle and Portland.”
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