Let’s just take a moment and reflect on the busy lives of Brooklyn’s Bandits On The Run, who made their first big mark with ‘Love in the Underground’ back in 2019 when it was featured on the NPR Tiny Desk Contest’s Top Shelf. An EP in 2021 EP, ‘Now Is The Time,’ was recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock (Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers), and then the Bandits took to the screen – devising a short musical film, Band At The End Of The World, commissioned by Prospect Musicals.
Since then, they have continued to explore the nexus of indie-folk and theatrical storytelling, composing music for the Netflix animated series, Storybots, scoring the movie, The Same Storm, adapting several songs from texts by William Shakespeare for a production of As You Like It, receiving an NEA grant for a new musical with Prospect Musicals, all the while touring the globe with appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Floydfest, Summerfest Milwaukee, Americanafest, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Mile of Music, and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival.
Phew! And here’s another new single and Adrian Blake Enscoe of the band says: “Anyone who knows us knows we’re no strangers to the subways– our band was forged busking on the train platforms of New York City“, although naturally enough the subterranean realm is also the haunt of dark thoughts and challenges, so there may well be some of that going on as well.
Bandits on the Run are heading out on tour with the Wood Brothers – hooray! But only in the States – darn it!
