Bandits on the Run, featuring Earlville native Adrian Blake Ensco will present 'Back Home For The Holidays' at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 19 at the Earlville Opera House. (Submitted graphic)

EARLVILLE - Bandits on the Run, featuring Earlville native Adrian Blake Enscoe, present Back Home For The Holidays at the Earlville Opera House on Friday, December 19 at 7pm. This performance will close the Opera House’s 53rd season on the 1892 historic Main Stage, right in time to get you in a festive mood.
Bandits On The Run are a musical trio comprised of Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn, known for their distinct combination of cello, guitar, accordion, and found-percussion with sophisticated three-part harmonies and rotating lead vocals. The theatrical indie-pop band will indeed be Back Home For The Holidays with this special performance.
Enscoe, who made his Broadway debut in 2024’s Swept Away (with music by The Avett Brothers), attended Sherburne-Earlville High School and performed in productions for Sherburne Music Theater Society throughout his childhood. It’s a real full-circle moment for him to return home to the stage that he grew up on.

“Back Home For the Holidays” is a nod to Bandits on the Run’s single, “Back Home,” released just around this time last year. As stated by Enscoe, “Time changes you, places change you, and, for sure, relationships change as we wend our way through evolving connections with our loved ones,” he says of the song, which mirrors his feelings about the upcoming show. “Earlville is a very special place to me — it’s not just where I grew up. I’ve written songs here, my band and I have had many writing sessions here, Sydney and I got married at my folks' place up here two years ago! That feeling I got standing on the raked stage of EOH when I was 6 years old, looking out at an audience huddled in those creaky old theater chairs, that feeling is written somewhere on the background of every performance I’ve ever given, in school, on Broadway, and on tour across the world. It’s always with me.”

The now-Brooklyn-based trio burst onto the national stage in 2019 when their song, “Love in the Underground,” was featured on the NPR Tiny Desk Contest’s Top Shelf. After recording their 2021 EP, Now Is The Time, with producer Ryan Hadlock (Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers), the Bandits took to the screen, devising a short musical film, Band At The End Of The World, commissioned by Prospect Musicals. Since then, they have continued to explore the nexus of indie-folk and theatrical storytelling, composing music for the Netflix animated series, Storybots, scoring the movie, The Same Storm, adapting several songs from texts by William Shakespeare for a production of As You Like It and subsequent EP, The Shakespeare Tapes, receiving an NEA grant for a new musical with Prospect Musicals, all the while touring the globe with appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Floydfest, Summerfest Milwaukee, Americanafest, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Mile of Music, and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. For more information, please visit banditsontherun.com

Join us for a true treat as we welcome these talented musicians with hometown roots. Tickets for this show are $30/$27 for members (become a member!), $10 for youth 17 and under, with college students half off general admission with valid ID. Premiums apply to select rows. Tickets can be purchased at www.earlvilleoperahouse.com, or by calling (315) 691-3550. 

Thank you to our show sponsors: The Mid York Foundation, WEAR 88.3, NBT Bank, Preferred Mutual Insurance Company, Bruce Ward, Architect, Hamilton Community Chest and Sidney Federal Credit Union. And thanks to our hospitality sponsors Poolville Country Store B&B and the Huff Brau. 

Earlville Opera House Arts Center is located at 18 East Main Street in the quaint Village of Earlville, NY. At EOH we believe accessibility and inclusion are critical to everything we do. Our historic Opera House has been upgraded to ensure accessibility throughout the building, including a hearing loop system in our 1892 theater provided by Hamilton Hearing LLC.

EOH events are made possible with support from the Office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, the New York State Council on the Arts, and through the generosity of EOH members.

- Information from the EOH