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Stelth Ulvang never slows down. In his fifteen years as pianist for the anthemic folk band, The Lumineers, he simply keeps playing music, even when they stop.
He records songs in new studios when the band arrives early in cities. He performs at house shows on off nights and at dive bars on Mondays. After a Lumineers show in an arena, he hops into a cab to join another set across town.
Born and raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, his formative years of music always spiraled back to folk music. It almost felt like inescapable serendipity. He found $600 in a goodwill suit coat and bought a century-old accordion. He traveled across oceans on boats and across America on trains and hitchhiked across the world, using music as a means to keep him traveling. Busking on street corners kept him paid for five years, and you can see that draw to closeness from arenas to house shows. Like a goat in a tree, he will make his way over precarious obstacles to find human connection at even the largest venues.
Now, Stelth Ulvang (this is his mom-given, real Norwegian name) is living in the high desert of Bishop, California, with hummingbirds and crows circling the little house on the edge of town. He continues to write and when he tours he doesn’t skip a beat. He jumps back in vivacious and loud in the limelight, and maybe that’s the sweet secret to it all. The buoyancy between the theatrical and true, the fair and the obscene, a sweltering baseball stadium and a rain-soaked Louisiana levee.
He records songs in new studios when the band arrives early in cities. He performs at house shows on off nights and at dive bars on Mondays. After a Lumineers show in an arena, he hops into a cab to join another set across town.
Born and raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, his formative years of music always spiraled back to folk music. It almost felt like inescapable serendipity. He found $600 in a goodwill suit coat and bought a century-old accordion. He traveled across oceans on boats and across America on trains and hitchhiked across the world, using music as a means to keep him traveling. Busking on street corners kept him paid for five years, and you can see that draw to closeness from arenas to house shows. Like a goat in a tree, he will make his way over precarious obstacles to find human connection at even the largest venues.
Now, Stelth Ulvang (this is his mom-given, real Norwegian name) is living in the high desert of Bishop, California, with hummingbirds and crows circling the little house on the edge of town. He continues to write and when he tours he doesn’t skip a beat. He jumps back in vivacious and loud in the limelight, and maybe that’s the sweet secret to it all. The buoyancy between the theatrical and true, the fair and the obscene, a sweltering baseball stadium and a rain-soaked Louisiana levee.
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