Lark & Spur began in Europe as a duo of street performers featuring Jeff Whiteley on guitar and vocals and Lori Decker, providing traffic stopping vocals, and playing the mandolin. A French radio station owner recorded some of those early performances which were later broadcast in France.
Other musicians who have performed at various times with Lark & Spur include Chris Taylor, Evan Coombs, Ray Smith, Greg Peterson, Gawain Mathews, Ryun Louie, Jesse Crosby and Greg Floor.
We perform most often as an acoustic quartet or quintet, including guitars, mandolin, percussion, woodwinds, double bass, and vocals.
How best to describe our music - Angelic vocals over a beautiful weave of guitars and woodwinds. Our repertoire is varied, ranging from jazz, latin, pop, Christmas songs to even French folk songs of the middle ages.
In Europe we have performed at the Deauville, Brienz, Montreux and Juan les Pins jazz festivals and have had radio and TV appearances in France and Switzerland. In our home base of Utah, we have performed for Utah Symphony events, billionaires, movie stars and many other private and public events.
We work for the moments between the ending of a song and the beginning of applause, the silence when the audience is not yet willing to return from the journey, or the moment when the song is so beautiful the audience hesitates to clap, not wanting to break the spell.
Please browse the website, listen to samples of our music and feel free to contact us, we'd love to hear from you.
