A Folklahoma number
Feb 11 2010 - 20:00
Where: New Empowering Church, 1a Westgate Street, London Fields, E8 3RL
Open Mike:
Not at this event
Price:
£8
Description:
Fay Hield After a year or two off the folk radar, during which she researched her PhD thesis and discovered motherhood (one of each) and self-sufficiency (an allotment), Fay returned to public view via occasional performances with partner Jon Boden. By this time she and Jon had fetched up on the moorland fringes of Sheffield. In 2009 a new concert line-up with Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead) came into being, built around a striking repertoire of often obscure material drawn from rarely-thumbed collections. This spicy stew of songs and ballads, catches and caprices is showcased on her debut solo CD - Looking Glass, due for release in 2010 on the prestigious Topic Records.
Instrumentation includes fiddles, concertina, nyckelharpa, symphonie and guitar. The sound is at once crafty and nimble, airy and graceful, full of zest and nuance, sensitive to the tradition yet utterly distinctive. Fay leads with a voice whose rough edges are still thrillingly intact, and which goes straight to the living heart of the songs.
"Sophie & Fiachra perform a captivating fusion of traditional Irish and Québecoise music, mainly on Uilleann pipes and Fiddle. They sound like a Big-Big band, oweing to the nature of the instruments and their style of playing. Sophie & Fiachra are old Ireland and Québec meeting again."
