On Sunday at 2:30PM we will be handing out our 2026 Finding Bright Film Festival awards DURING an incredible bitch-pop performance by Sapling. Doors open at 2PM, Award ceremony at 2:30PM.

You don't want to miss this. Celebrate independent film for creative weirdos alongside filmmakers with live music!

Once declared “the best band in America” by a heavily inebriated gentleman at a pub gig, Sapling is New England’s premier bitchpop and art rock band. Their live show has drawn comparisons to Sleater-Kinney, Roxy Music, and Swans, surely due to their signature blending of pop hooks and confetti with spooky chaos and precariously complex signal chains. Sapling have delighted and confused audiences at intimate basement shows and larger venues alike.

Sapling have released two full-length studio records (2020’s No Sequoia and 2023’s amor fati), both of which have seen them nominated for multiple Worcester and Boston Music Awards and landed them on a number of notable end-of-year favorites lists (Worcester Magazine, Boston Emissions, Bumblebee Radio, If It’s Too Loud, et al.).Sapling’s current lineup formed in 2018 and features Rainy Maple Sugar Candy-Spaghetti on bass, vocals, and extraneous woodwinds; Amber ToiletFire Tortorelli on guitar, vocals, Theremin, and whatever’s in the clown box; and Jonathan Candy-Spaghetti on drums and merriment. At present, the band is based between Providence, RI and Worcester, MA.