BEND YOUR KNEES (for NPR's Tiny Desk contest) live at Southgate Roller Rink - Henry Mansfield

Описание: I wrote this song while falling in love with someone at the roller rink. It only made sense to one day play it there... with the whole band on skates, of course. Even the desk got to roll around! For NPR's Tiny Desk Contest 2026.

Learn more on Instagram: @henrymansfieldmusic

I still genuinely can’t believe we pulled this off. Huge thanks to everyone listed below, and special thanks to Cody and Austin for rolling (no pun intended) with a really ambitious idea. Y’all are the real deal.

musicians:
Henry Mansfield (he/they) - vocals, songwriting, arrangement
Erika Gersten (she/her) - vocals
Mal McDowall (they/them) - bass
Craig Suede (any) - guitar - @craigsuede
Nikhita Sheller (they/them) - saxophone
Sunny Radford (he/they) - trumpet
Alex Roemmele (he/him) - snare, marching drum arrangement
Jon Shumi (he/him) - bass drum
Rickey (he/him) - cymbals
Rachael McQuarrie (she/it) - keyboard

helping hands:
Taylor Long
Kirsten Macfarlane
Bekah Gehrke
Max Bernstein

crew:
Austin Smith - Director / Lighting / Edit / Color - @austinismedia
Cody Kilpatrick - Producer / DOP / Camera / Lighting / Mix / Master - @codykilpatrick.mus
Elton Zebron - Audio Record / Monitors - @sistinechaplain
Isaac Ordonez - RF - @cannonaudio

Special thanks to @oliverstellfox for extra RF equipment and to @southgaterollerrink for letting us come through! And to @tedbrownmusic in Tacoma for renting us some marching drums — sorry I didn’t mentioned they’d be played on skates 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

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