Phosphorescent performs at Baltimore Soundstage on April 18, 2019. (Photo by Matt Ruppert)

As I stood outside the door of Baltimore Soundstage recently, Matthew Houck and Jo Schornikow strolled past us and their touring bus, children and a nanny beside them. Simple smiles sparked, little laughs swelled; they meandered away, or maybe to a different entrance, barely a glance behind them.

Theirs is an easy grace now, and like all graces, tenuous but suffused with contentment. It looked like happiness.

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