full album release: June 5, 2026
a syp, a scuffle, stasis
It's finally ready!
Two decades ago, to celebrate Loon Lake Live hitting its 10 year mark, we gathered in a historic camp house on Loon Lake and made our first recording featuring John Winn's compositions and arrangements for strings, harp, clarinet, saxophone, and vocalist.
Last June three of those original musicians—and the same awesome engineer—reunited in a Richmond studio to bring you (wonderful) newer works by John Winn and genre‑blurring banjoist/composer Adam Larrabee.
The awesome result is a meticulously performed and beautifully engineered studio recording.
The single "Stasis" is available now!
The full album will be released on June 5.
a syp, a scuffle, stasis
Party Hopping (2024) string trio by John Winn
The More Things Change (2011) string quartet by John Winn
I. Progress
II. Stasis
III. Times/People
Pirate Suite: Seven Songs from the "C" (2020/2024) septet for strings, banjo,
clarinet, and percussion by Adam Larrabee
Performers:
Aaron Packard and Susanna Klein, violins
Catherine Beeson, viola
Stephanie Barrett, cello
Killian Winn, bass
John Winn, clarinet
Adam Larrabee, banjo
Brian Caputo, percussion
Engineer:
Curtis Fye
Recorded with support from the Allan and Margot Blank Foundation, June 10-13, 2025 at The Brink, Richmond VA
MEET THE COMPOSERS 🎙️
"The piece that I wrote for the Loon Lake Group is called Seven Songs from the Sea, and it's a suite of pieces all based on the C major scale on every mode over the C major scale, but with a swashbuckling sort of pirate theme!"
Adam Larrabee
So I ended up kind of having a drinking theme with this piece, "Party Hopping", and the Waltz starts it, in an ABA song form. And this theme kind of takes us to each of the drinks that we sample as we hop from party to party...!
John Winn
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THIS ALBUM & LOON LAKE LIVE
Please consider helping us fund the engineering and mastering costs for this recording, and throw us some support for the concert series if you haven’t already! Every dollar helps, and no gift is too large either… ;)
WHY IT MATTERS
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Second ever LLL studio release — following 2005’s beloved Around the Campfire. We want you to be able to listen to more of our music any and everywhere!
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Reunion of the OG crew — 3 original performers + the original engineer... with 20 more years of music-making under our belts!
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Fresh, living repertoire now preserved... what more could we ask for!
Donations of $200 and higher will receive the brand new recording plus a signed note from all of us!