The verdict is in.
Accolades.
#10 Best Play of 2016 - Time Out Chicago
2014 Jeff Award for Best Original Music in a Play
30 under 30: The Most Powerful "20-Somethings" in NYC - Refinery 29
2012 Grammy Preview #10 Album of the Year - The Huffington Post
#5 Theatrical Event of 2011 and #10 of 2012 - The Huffington Post
Standout Performances of 2012 - Backstage
2012 Culture Awards - New York Magazine
#9 Best Song of July 2015 - Esquire
Features.
Soundcheck with John Schaefer - WNYC
American Theatre Magazine - Cover Story
Podcast: Living The Dream pt. 1
Podcast: Living The Dream pt. 2
"Playing with Music" with HowlRound
National TV Performance - WGN America
Chicago TV Performance - WGN Morning News
Premieres.
Wild Honey Pie - "All's Well (With José)" (Video Debut)
Paste Magazine - "Weathervane" (Video Debut)
Wall Street Journal - "We Won't" (Song Debut)
Relix Magazine - "Choir" (Song Debut)
Reviews.
"[PigPen] asks us to appreciate the finer arts of wild storytelling, while speaking to the childish mind in all of us."
-The New York Times
"I'm crazy about PigPen and soon you will be too. They're a great rock band that also happens to put on delightful theatrical shows. Or they're a great theatrical troupe that also happens to release terrific albums. Take your pick."
-The Huffington Post
"A perfect booking for next year's Newport Folk Festival."
-Esquire
"Storytellers who have some skin in the game. Your attention, I guarantee, will not wander for a moment."
"Manages to breathe fresh air into the otherwise oversaturated Americana genre... harmonizing that reaches dazzling heights... the group has ample storytelling prowess."
-Relix
"Their versatility is delightful to watch. Their hard work seems effortless."
-The New York Times
"It’s like watching child geniuses at play."
-The New Yorker
"Something like a Redmoon or Building Stage spectacle multiplied by a Decemberists concert... It's tough to shake the notion that you're in at the launch stage of a group that could soon escape orbit."
-Time Out Chicago
"An all-ages journey into the frontiers of undiluted imagination."
-New York Magazine
"'The Old Man and The Old Moon' is a fable about opportunities lost and regained, and about how the force of memory pulls at us like a lunar tide. But in the hands of the PigPen troupe ... it is also about the experience of making theater itself."
-Boston Globe
"They shoot for the moon and reach it."
-Time Out New York
"The great power of simple storytelling."
-The New York Times
"This new play with music is a triumph in collaborative storytelling."
-TheatreMania
"PigPen Theatre Co. is already a phenomenon."
-Boston Herald
"Don't be fooled. Despite their youth, these guys are masterful musicians and theater performers"
-Time Out New York
"When you are as talented as the PigPen ensemble, making something from nothing comes easy."
-The Boston Globe
"Reminiscent of the harmonic folk heavyweights such as Fleet Foxes and Crosby Stills and Nash… Viva PHX was PigPen's Phoenix debut, and they killed it, stuffed it, and hung it above the mantelpiece to remember them by."
-Phoenix New Times
"All seven are singing their hearts out, sometimes all at once in perfect unison, and other times with gorgeous harmonies… The longstanding camaraderie between the members is palpable… There's too much talent there to keep these guys on the underground for much longer."
-Charged.fm