The Crane Wives are an indie-folk outfit from Grand Rapids, MI that defies musical stereotypes. Formed in late August of 2010, they just finished recording their debut album entitled "Safe Ship, Harbored." Using three-part vocal harmonies, eclectic instrumentation and a knack for dynamics, they create organic music that is both accessible and innovative. Each live show features contagious energy as well as original music that ranges from whisper quiet ballads to danceable grooves. Destiny itself assembled the Crane Wives, and now they seek only to make music worthy of destiny. That, and act as silly as humanly possible. "The Crane Wife is an old Japanese tale. While there are many variations of the tale, a common version is that a poor man finds an injured crane on his doorstep (or outside with an arrow in it), takes it in and nurses it back to health. After he releases the crane, a woman appears at his doorstep with whom he falls in love and marries. Because they need money, his wife offers to weave wondrous clothes out of silk that they can sell at the market, but only if he agrees never to watch her making them. They begin to sell them and live a comfortable life, but he soon makes her weave them more and more. Oblivious to his wife's diminishing health, his greed increases. He eventually peeks in to see what she is doing to make the silk she weaves so desirable. He is shocked to discover that at the loom is a crane plucking feathers from her own body and weaving them into the loom. The crane, seeing him, flies away and never returns." Here's what people are saying: "Everything about this band is organic." - Phil Sieb, Harmelody Artist Profile: The Crane Wives (Dec 28, 2009) "I want to have sex with your harmonies" - Chelsea Axford "You guys are exactly what this country needs" - Random drunk guy at a bar "The band is a kind of neo-folk group with rumbling drums rhythms, dual acoustic guitars and the distinct sound of banjo tiptoeing the old country fence." - Elijah Brumback, Members of Crane Wives share GV roots, set to begin recording debut album (Nov 04, 2010) "A unique, vocal-heavy brand of folk rock." - Kevin VanAntwerpen, Revue Magazine "It is a rare act that truly does not have screaming fans staring at just one person during a concert because of their obvious prominence, and if there’s anyone in Michigan, at least on the west-side, that has the opportunity to completely engulf themselves in this all-for-one philosophy, it would be this band." - Phil Sieb, Harmelody Artist Profile: The Crane Wives (Dec 28, 2010) "Best new band in town. Hauntingly beautiful folk and americana." - Founders Brewing Company "With the promise of bare feet in the mud and taking naps in trees, The Crane Wives want to take you to a place with no gas stations or landfills in sight and to pull out their banjos and bongos and sing to you, only you, if you let them" - Phil Sieb, Harmelody Artist Profile: The Crane Wives (Dec 28, 2010)