Family Worship Center plays Enterprise
Published 7:00 am Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Family Worship Center will play March 27, 2025, at the Range Rider in Enterprise. (Madelyn Stellingwerf/Contributed Photo)
ENTERPRISE — Portland-based band Family Worship Center is heading to Boise for three days of the Treefort Music Festival, but first they will detour to Wallowa County.
The band plays Thursday, March 27, at the Range Rider, 107 NW First St. The music starts at 8 p.m.
This is the fourth time the band has played at Treefort, but the first time in Enterprise.
Andrew Krissberg started the band when he was living in Nashville, where he was meeting musicians and making records.
Literally making records — he had a 1920s record lathe, similar to the one seen in the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou?”
“I’d record people straight to vinyl, and I met a lot of really cool musicians,” he said.
He started Family Worship Center in 2017 as a recording project. The name, he said, came from a brochure he picked up in Nashville.
“We’re all about being accepting and having fun. Treating each other well,” Krissberg said.
He later moved to Seattle, then to Portland.
The band released the EP “Sunday A.M.” in 2020, and “Kicked Out of the Garden” in September 2023.
Family Worship Center is, Krissberg said, a rock ‘n’ roll band influenced by music from the late 1960s and early 1970s — The Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, The Band, and Delaney & Bonnie.
“It’s such a wide genre,” he said.
And the band is big — the last record featured 25 musicians, the current tour has 11.
“We’re pretty loud,” he said.
The last record featured 25
Family Worship Center tours the Pacific Northwest, as well as parts of California.
And be sure, he said, to check out their merch table for “records, T-shirts and nunchucks — all the essentials,” Krissberg said with a laugh.