Pearl and the Beard is three voices, one cello, one guitar, one glockenspiel, one melodica, several drums, one accordion, ninety-six teeth, and one soul. Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price, and Jeremy Styles came together in New York. Their unique brand of brightly melodic songcraft began to blossom, and the band’s genre-bending and expectation-defying sound has since burst the trio out of the confines of the New York music scene. They’ve caught the attention of the Boston Globe, Filter Magazine, NPR, and thousands of wildly dedicated fans both local and international. The band captivates their audience from first note to last, leaving fans and press alike completely engrossed in the world they’ve created. From subway platform to park to field to brightly lit venue stage, Pearl and the Beard takes over the minds of whoever happens to be there. The Wall Street Journal described one impromptu show this way: “”¦as Pearl and the Beard joyfully belted ”¦ to a growing crowd on the [subway] platform”¦ commuters missed their trains to stay and listen, unsure what was happening–only that it was a New York moment not to be missed.” Pearl and the Beard did a terrific short set at the 2014 Ann Arbor Folk Festival.