TONIGHT! BSS Presents - Sharron Kraus, C Joynes & Peter Delaney
Wednesday 14th October 2009
Venue: CB2 Restaurant and Cafe
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Kick-off UK tour
Price Info: £5 on the door
Time Info: 8pm - 11.30pm
Sharron Kraus is a singer/musician/songwriter who creates music rooted in
the folk traditions of England and Appalachia. Her work is characterized by
soil-rich vocals, haunting banjo, fine acoustic guitar and visionary
wordcraft. Her songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally
charismatic characters, telling tales of enslavement, perversion, incest,
obsession, love and death. Sharron’s live performances are stark,
compelling, and delicate. She is like the roving storyteller, bringing
tales of terror, sadness and joy to a stranger’s hearth on a dark and stormy
night.
Sharron has been interviewed on BBC Radio 3 and recorded sessions for BBC
Radio Scotland, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across
the US. Her fanbase includes veteran folkies Shirley Collins and Archie
Fisher as well as indie figureheads Michael Gira, David Tibet and Thurston
Moore.
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"English acoustic guitarist C Joynes uses traditional country-blues and
early ragtime to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English
folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music;
proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical
tradition. His approach contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation,
with a penchant for reworking over-familiar pieces and stripping them of
their kitsch and cliché, presenting them afresh. Joynes' music is
instinctive, placid, and evokes a certain simplicity and naiveté." - Rhodri
Davies
Joynes has released albums through labels such as Bo'Weavil and The Great
Pop Supplement. He has recorded a live broadcast session for Andy Kershaw
on BBC Radio 3, and played extensively across the UK and Ireland, sharing
bills with performers including Alasdair Roberts, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Jack
Rose, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Sir Richard Bishop and Steffan
Basho-Junghans.
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Peter Delaney lives in Limerick, Ireland. He comes from a folk music
background and plays his own unique style, drawing on early Hawaiian folk
songs and Alan Lomax field recordings as well as more contemporary musicians
such as Joanna Newsom and Josephine Foster. Peter released his debut EP/Mini
Album "Duck Egg Blue" in April 2007 to much acclaim.
Peter has played throughout the UK, Ireland and Norway and has shared the
bill with A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Alasdair Roberts, Jozef van Wissem, Juana
Molina and The Swell Season.
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