Music - Plague Dad & Whitney Walker

Plague Dad is the most recent project from Portland's  Frank Gallagher. A veteran of the indie rock scene, Gallagher grew up in Bangor and got his start back in the day out in San Francisco, after he dropped out of the Berklee College of Music and split for the west coast. His first band, Scouts Honor, gigged all over SF, the Bay Area, and beyond, sharing stages from LA to Seattle with a long list of acts, including Nirvana, the Goo Goo Dolls, Primus, Mr. Bungle, Love Battery, Alice Donut, and more.

Plague Dad is an acoustic act, steeped in the old-timey sounds of Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, and the Stanley Brothers, but infused through and through with the punk-rock ethos that let Gallagher to start playing music in the first place. The repertoire draws from a deep well of tightly crafted original tunes and carefully curated covers. And…