Join the SUNY Oswego Music Department and the Oswego Music Hall for a screening of folk duo Ordinary Elephant's award-winning documentary "Across the Quiet." This film captures the artistic evolution of the married duo Crystal Hariu-Damore and Pete Damore through recording and releasing an album along with producer Dirk Powell. With powerful moments of introspection, particularly Crystal's candid reflections on anxiety, the documentary examines what it means for these artists to explore their relationship and their music through the lens of their unconventional creative path.

Crystal and Pete Damore from Ordinary Elephant will be present to answer questions and to discuss their filmmaking process, their creative works, and the challenges of touring singer songwriters.

About Ordinary Elephant

Award-winning folk duo Ordinary Elephant has spent the better part of the last decade on a never-ending tour that’s earned married couple Crystal and Pete Damore widespread critical acclaim and made fans of luminaries like Tom Paxton and Mary Gauthier. In 2017, the pair took home the International Folk Music Award for Artist of the Year on the strength of their breakout album, "Before I Go," and two years later, they returned with the similarly lauded "Honest," which the Associated Press hailed as “one of the best Americana albums of the year.” Their most recent self-titled album was nominated for the 2024 IFMA Album of the Year by Folk Alliance International.

The band’s new stripped-down collection is the purest distillation of their sound yet, showcasing the power of the couple’s gorgeous harmonies and intricate fretwork. The songs are timeless, rooted in rich, character-driven storytelling, and the performances are similarly transportive, fueled by delicately intertwined banjo, guitar, and octave mandolin. Though the songs were born out of a period of deep uncertainty, the record itself is a work of profound self-assurance, one delivered by a duo whose personal and professional lives embody the limitless possibility of honest, organic collaboration. The new record offers more than just a husband and wife but the sound of sincerity and commitment, of patience and gratitude, of learning to let go of expectation and revel in the simple beauty of the moment.