23.01.11 Oh Ruin, Dana Falconberry, Matt Bauer and Judson Claiborne
This is an amazing night courtesy of London's The Local off of the back of their sublime - Shhh! Festival, in Camden, which features exemplary players of quiet music and songs that reward close listening. Our night features not one but four! awesome talents...
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++ A little loose, a little rough around the edges, Eoin O’Ruainigh melodies borrowed from old Irish folk songs, and stories set to intricate finger picked paeans.
++ Judson Claiborne visits from Chicago Illinois with his effortlessly ethereal music underlying narratives about strange and beautiful travels, encounters, adventures, family, lovers, and dreams. He had retold the story of his Great Grandmother, Vida’s tragic relationship with her third husband Crow. Written a love song to Elegua, the mythological spirit or orisha who stands at the crossroads in our lives. And there are a few covers, songs by James, Tim Buckley, Ross Cashiola, and Paul Seibel.
++ Dana Falconberry: LoFi Intimacy out of Austin Texas
Falconberry possesses old soul herself, her songwriting and voice haunting deeper than 28 years warrant. Her 2006 debut EP, Paper Sailboat, balanced a brazen, bluesy power, in songs like "Leave in the Middle of the Night," with achingly intimate narratives, such as "Sadie," Falconberry's voice encompassing a playfulness and beauty alongside a crushingly honest yearning and regret.
Born in Michigan, Falconberry began playing music only after moving to Arkansas to attend Hendrix College. She was drawn to the Mississippi Delta blues to the south and the folk of the Ozark Mountains to the north. http://www.danafalconberry.com/
Matt Bauer http://www.myspace.com/mattbauer
And from Kentucky - "Matt Bauer plays a ghostly sort of folk, wreathed in delicate webs of banjo and whispered with a lightness Sam Beam might envy." -Philadelphia Weekly
"Matt Bauer's banjo-driven folk songs hang together on a gossamer thread, moving from background to foreground with an understated power." -30music.com
"While the murder ballad is a time-honored tradition in folk music, Matt Bauer’s latest effort, “The Island Moved in the Storm,” takes it to a higher level in the form of a suite. Incorporating imagery from his Kentucky roots, Bauer creates a gorgeous musical travelogue, both spare and fully orchestrated, based on a murder victim known for years only as ‘Tent Girl.’ Matt Bauer whispers the details in a beautiful feathery rasp, inviting you join him as and eyewitness to the secrets of this sad story." --Irene Trudel, WFMU Program Host