Lucas Meachem & Irina - Shall We Gather AEC Video and in New York at

and in New York at Columbia University

A year-long period of limited resources and contact inspired the band to reflect on the various environments in which they've created music over the years: to comb through their previous sounds and creative approaches

It is important for me to write only what you can hear

and Finale builds on the popular template of soukous

Love is a thread that courses through the traditions of the Native American Church where it is honored

Lucas Meachem & Irina - Shall We Gather AEC Video and in New York atShall We Gather responds to the darkness of the pandemic and social distancing with the simple question of it's title. Through fifteen art songs by and about a broad swath of people from the United States, Lucas and Irina Meachem offer a vision of Americanness centred around the things that call on us to gather and that we gather to call upon. Those things, they say, are rooted in an act of hope in the promise of resilience that underlies our national