Wooden Rings at Raleigh Brewing 8/29/25

Poetry, Music, and Beer

Music By Wooden Rings, Living Earth Ensemble & Laketown Riots

Poetry by Anna Weaver

Raleigh Brewing on Neil Street
Raleigh Brewing
3709 NEIL STREET
RALEIGH, NC

$10 Donation at the door

Tags: @raleighbrewing, @woodenringsmusic, @laketownriots, @vitodito, @joshzaslowmusic

Say What?

Mark your calendars, Raleigh.

On Thursday, August 29, 2025 at 7 PM, we’re stepping into something special—and we want you there with us.

We’re thrilled to be headlining a unique evening of Poetry, Music, and Beer at Raleigh Brewing on Neil Street. It’s a $10 donation at the door, and every bit of that goes toward supporting local art and independent expression. No middlemen. No big stages. Just real people making real things.

We’ll be joining forces with some incredible artists for a night of intentional, genre-blurring creativity:

Anna Weaver will open the evening with live poetry—raw, thoughtful, and beautifully grounded.

Anna Weaver
Poet, Anna Weaver

Living Earth Ensemble and Laketown Riots will bring their own sonic landscapes to life, each offering a distinct voice that reflects the soul of our region.

Dmitri Glover is the mind behind Laketown Riots. This is the cover of Tyke, his 2022 release.

And then it’s us—Wooden Rings—bringing songs that live, combining folk intimacy, experimental sound, and emotional storytelling. This isn’t just a set for us—it’s a conversation with the room, with our fellow artists, and with you.

Considering it? Good!
Because it’s an evening of community. Of presence. Of poetry backed by melody and melody backed by meaning—all washed down with some of the best craft beer in the Triangle. But let’s be real, it’s indoors in Raleigh in the heat of August. It’s probably not safe for you to be anywhere else, lest you tempt heatstroke.

Listen to Living Earth at livingearth.bandcamp

Bring your friends. Bring your mind. Drink plenty of water with your beer.

-Your mom

We’ll bring the rest.

Wooden Rings at Bullhorn Festival: 10/19/2024 8:00 PM

Bullhorn Fest 2024, a home-grown microcelebration of Durham creativity featuring live music, art, and a few other things that are pretty great. This year will raise funds and awareness for a free Palestine through UNRWA!

When: 10/19/2024, 12pm-9:30pm
Where: Shadowbox Studio Bay Stage, 2000 Dominion St., Durham, North Carolina

Bullhorn Festival: https://bullhornarts.org/ bullhornarts.org, instagram.com/bullhorndurham, facebook.com/bullhornarts

Performers include:

  • Wooden Rings @woodenringsmusic
  • Dynamism @thisheretree
  • Uglow @uglow.uknow
  • Durham Ceasefire Chorus @durhamceasefirechorus
  • Living Earth @vito_dito
  • Son de Carolina @sondecarolina
  • Dozy Daisy @ira.lemonbalm
  • Ken Moshesh and Friends @mosheshken 
  • Lakeview Crew https://www.dpsnc.net/Lakeview
  • Lucas Brown @brightburningbedrock, and Dr. Fruit kidsforpresident.com
Bullhorn amplifies Durham, North Carolina-area music through Play, Performance, and Possibility
  • When you arrive at 2000 Dominion St., signs will direct you to the festival area
  • Bullhorn Fest takes place outside on a lovingly paved surface
  • We offer one accessible indoor bathroom for guests, two 10’x10’ shade tents, and about 40 uncushioned chairs available first-come-first-serve
  • We welcome blankets, umbrellas, canopies, chairs, coolers, and outside food
  • Water, snacks, and Taqueria Garcia food truck will be available on site. Many restaurants deliver to the festival and other food options exist within one mile of the festival  
  • For the kids and other creatives, we offer a DIY art station, tie-dyeing, a small bounce house, face painting by Wymzfae, and an instrument meet and greet from 12:30-1pm

Wooden Rings at Common Market 6/22/24

We are so excited to share the lush, intricate songs by Chicago transplant, Ramah Malebranche, for the Wooden Rings performing at Common Market in Durham, North Carolina on June 22nd a 7:00- 8:00 PM.

We are so excited to share the lush, intricate songs by Chicago transplant, Ramah Malebranche, for the Wooden Rings performing at Common Market in Durham, North Carolina on June 22nd a 7:00- 8:00 PM.

The chamber group is a “quieter” but in some ways more intricate version of band Wooden Rings, a progressive folk and rock group playing off-kilter sad-bastard music that is both foreign and familiar. The chamber group, composed of violinist Asa Jackson, upright bassist Gabe Sparrow, vibraphonist Andrew Munger, and Malebranche dig deeply into the mind and the heart, demanding attention and compassion from audiences in ways that leave you with more than you expected to find.

  • Date: June, 22nd 2024
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Location: Common Market: 1821 Green Street, Durham, NC
  • Cost: Entry and Parking are free and there is a bar downstrairs

Ramah is Moving to North Carolina

After a profound post-pandemic depression the winters in Chicago had finally come to a point of finality. Ramah has made the difficult decision of suspend Wooden Rings, pack up and move to be closer to family. It’s a difficult move after almost 20 years in Chicago, leaving friends, and the family he built. But the call for growth and escape for the grip of stagnancy drives him. Let’s see what the future holds.

Lakeview East Festival

Wooden Rings is really excited to play the Lakeview East Festival of the Arts on the main stage at 1:00 pm on 9/11.

By then, we’ll have some stirring new songs to share and will come pregnant with vinyl. We played the festival years ago and I have nothing but fond memories of the event.

You can also hear one of our songs, “A Bell”, on WHCM 88.3 FM in the northwest suburbs on the Local Music Show on Harper Radio. Play rotation will begin on 8/2.

https://lakevieweastfestivalofthearts.com/

We play 9/11 at 1PM on the main stage

Wooden Rings | Livestock at The Farm

We are beyond excited to play outside at dusk at The Farm in East Garfield Park, a true Chicago gem known for its DYI garden.

Wooden Rings takes the stage at 7 PM but there will be a variety of great bands who traveled to perform, a bonfire, and even a goat that it still living, to fill your heart with mush.

The show will be on Thursday, August 4th at 7:00PM.

The Farm is located at 3236 W Carroll Ave in Chicago and there will be donations collected, so bring some cheddar.

Wooden Rings at Montrose Saloon

Montrose Saloon is an easygoing Albany Park neighborhood watering hole offering local craft brews & spirits, plus regular live music. It’s roots and boozy, so come have fun!

Date: Thursday, July 14th

Time: We take the stage at 7:00 PM but music continue well into the night

Address: 2933 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Cost: Suggested Donation

We rescheduled this show to a time when we didn’t have COVID

Werewolf Coffee Bar hosts Wooden Rings

We are very excited to share some of the music we have been working on and have only attempted to perform in a garden over the summer. We have a sleek new in-ear system we want to try out and some lovely harmonies to tickle your ear.

Werewolf Coffee Bar is at 1765 Elston Ave. in Chicago

The music starts at 7:00 PM and end before 8:00 PM

At this free show, there will be alcohol and of course … coffee!

Emergence

Michigan 2021

It’s February, the darkest, coldest, shortest month of the year. And like many we have been working hard, stressing, trying to grow in a place that doesn’t want to see growth. We’ve been working from home, sitting around, pacing our minds. But you know what, we’ve been together.

Wooden Rings has been practicing at our East Garfield space, writing new songs, gestating, and spending quite a bit of time on our sounds and equipment. We’d like to grow by incorporating some technology that has the premise to make us freer, more consistent, more efficient, and maybe with enough practice, more creative.

We’ve been thinking about how to pandemic swept our previous record right from under up. Many didn’t get a chance to hear it or never heard it live. Heliocentric was a vinyl endeavor and particularly sensitive to isolation. If we don’t play rooms, audiences never hear our work or consider supporting us. We could have scrambled to play online. But I just couldn’t do that to myself or my bandmates.

We all just needed time.

But now I think we are on the cusp of a new set, considering some starter shows, and eager to try some of our testy new gear. Will it fit? Will it completely fail? Or will it be so satisfying, we’ll forget how we were before?

We all work harder than ever outside of this project and we all want some new things out of life since the pandemic. May 2022 be a vehicle for us to express ourselves in this music, to grow closer together and wiser as individuals.

I love my bandmates, Nathan, Alex, and Liz. We appreciate anyone and everyone who will stop for a moment to listen to what we’ve constructed, not to tear us down but to hear the truths we share and be edified.

So, I want us to play out again soon.

-Ramah

Just a practice 2021
Michigan 2021

Lyrics Matter

Big thank you to every single person who has purchased or reserved our new record, Heliocentric. We put some bone marrow into this record and years of throwing lyrics at the wall and listening for echos back. Though I tend to write from my own personal experience I also hear my lyrics opening up more to feelings we all have. The lyrics are becoming less a study of my singular life and more a study on my friends, family, and society around me. So, lyrics matter to me a they are a vehicle of clarity, placing the emotion of the music in the right space in the mind to tell a story.

To avoid this kind of miscommunication, I have uploaded all of lyrics to Bandcamp next to each song. Make sure you heard what you thought you heard and check back at the title of the song for hints as to which memories to access on which songs.

1.In June 05:35

2.Streaming 04:53

3.Sunrise 05:57

4.Strangers 05:15

5.Shine 04:24

6.We Are Doves 04:57

7.A Bell 04:47

8.Just Read To Me 03:33

9.Flashing Gold 03:50

10.Before We Collapse 04:58

Dual Record Release at Elastic Arts on Leap Year

We are releasing records at Elastic Arts on leap year and you are all invited!

Tickets are $10.00 and doors are at 8:30 PM.

Wooden Rings teams up with Blow Wind Blow, for a dual record release show this leap year, February 29th 2020, at Elastic Arts.

Doors open at 8:30 PM with sound healer, Jay Taylor creating a sonic landscape throughout the audience, which dovetails into the first song of Blow Wind Blow’s set at 9:00 PM. The show continues with projection, and light play by light artist Rachel Winslow and filmmaker Brian Wilson. Heliocentric, the first full-length vinyl record, will be self-released by Wooden Rings, was made possible with generous support from the 3Arts Foundation, support from our gorgeous listeners, and was pressed locally at Smashed Plastic.

Blow wind blow releases, The Wake, engineered by Jeff Breakey at Good Wolf and mastered by James Auwarter at Coda|Room Audio Chicago/London, who incidentally record Heliocentric.

Wooden Rings & Angela French | Hangar 9

Wooden Rings & Angela French | Hangar 9 Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 10 PM – 12 AM 511 S Illinois Ave, Carbondale, IL 62901-2814, United States Wooden Rings weaves lush, original blends of folk and rock on their upcoming full-length vinyl release, Heliocentric. Taking the stage with local trio Angela French, the two groups share the honesty and intimacy shared by the craft of songwriting. woodenringsmusic.com angelafrenchmusic.com Facebook Event