Concert: Covenhoven with Audra Rodgers

Covenhoven with special guest Audra Rodgers live at Salon Sage in Taos.

Quietly forging his own path through the crowded indie folk landscape of 2025, Joel Van Horne (AKA Covenhoven) released his fifth album The Color of the Dark to glimmering reviews and embarked on an extensive tour schedule that took him all over the U.S. and Canada.  Funding the album with the help of 250 of his loyal fans and self-releasing it in April of 2025, Denver’s Westword called it a “masterpiece album of lyrical excellence.”  He worked with producer/engineers Dave Wilton (Gregory Alan Isakov, Nathaniel Rateliff, A Boy and His Kite, etc.) and Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, etc.) to record 10 new songs. Then during his tours through the spring and summer, he re-recorded another version of the album in its entirety… calling it Field Notes… made entirely outdoors, finding make-shift “studios” in stone alcoves and forest hollows in places like Joshua Tree, Big Sur, Banff and beyond… he set up a single microphone and let the local birds, wind, water, and other sounds of nature take part in the performances.  Then, as if two full albums in a year wasn’t enough, a new single Aeroplane dropped a few months ago that shows Joel dipping his toes into the Americana and folk-rock pools of his heroes.