Press "Escaping Pavement makes sparseness stunning. The acoustic guitar and mandolin crackle together like a mesmerizing bonfire and the voices of Emily Burns and Aaron Markovitz blend together like the azure purple and tawny oranges of a vibrant sunset” - Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press “Detroit, Michigan has a group to be proud of in Escaping Pavement...they show that they’ve got the chops to hang with the big boys, combining gifted vocals together with strong musical arrangements and songwriting to create a warm atmosphere of Americana-inspired music.” - Escaping Pavement Andrew Greenhalgh, Along the Journey Music Bio Blog "Straddling many SeMI bluegrass genres, this vocal/ Hailed as "One of the most dynamic americana groups out of Detroit, instrumental duo has not only garnered local, but regional Michigan" Escaping Pavement masterfully blends and blurs the lines of and national attention with their hard-driving, vocal-driven bluegrass, folk, rock, and country. Their unique joint frontperson arrangement, with Emily Burns and Aaron Markovitz sharing equally in approach to acoustic music as exemplified by their singing, songwriting, and guitar playing, allows for astounding, harmony- superb new album, The Night Owl. There's a lot of driven, musical interplay and has earned them slots on bills with the likes bluegrass in this duo from the fiddle-tune laced mandolin of Justin Townes Earle, Mountain Heart, and Joan Osborne. licks of Aaron Markovitz or the driving, pounding rhythm guitar work of Emily Burns-she even rips off a killer flatpick Members solo at the end of "Leave the Light On" that is one Lester Aaron Markovitz-vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar Flatt G-Run short of bluegrass perfection!" - John Emily Burns-vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, ukulele Bayerl, SeMI Bluegrass Blog Discography Notable Performances: UpRooted (debut album) 2013, The Night Owl-June 4th, 2016, Coffee Gallery Backstage-Altadena, CA National Parks inspired EP-June 3rd, 2017 4th & Main Grille-Wray, CO The Ark-Ann Arbor, MI The Night Owl Track LIsting 20 Front Street-Lake Orion, MI (Headlining sold-out show) 1. Wanderers Nor-East'r Music Festival-Mio, MI 2. The Sweetest Lady Meadowgrass Music Fest-Colorado Springs, Co 3. Fuel The Fire (Lead Single) Black Rose Acoustic Society-CO Springs, CO 4. Dumb Luck 5. Girl From the North Country (Bob Dylan Cover) 6. Mary 7. Derailed 8. Watching the Wheels (John Lennon Cover) 9. 3 Weeks 10. The Night Owl 11. Silver Lining 12. Leave the LIght On Recommended listening Fuel the Fire, Wanderers, Girl From the North Country, and Mary Links escapingpavement.com facebook.com/escapingpavementband General Inquiries: Booking: youtube.com/escapingpavement (live performance videos) Emily Burns Ximena Dussan soundcloud.com/escapingpavementband [email protected] [email protected] 248-804-8450 310-663-0947.