Grand Vapids is an Atlanta- and Athens-based band described as “thoughtfully executed guitar slow-pop,” but guitarist Austin Harris prefers simply “rock.”
Harris and his co-founding bandmate McKendrick Bearden met in the music program at LaGrange College. They began making music together that would eventually evolve into the tuneful, considered pop sound of Grand Vapids.
Harris speaks reverently of their longtime collaboration, attesting that the project of Grand Vapids was a matter of “trying to keep up with McKendrick’s songwriting.”
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