A gig held at The Stag And Hounds on Thursday 8th May. The event starts at 20:00.
Morgan O'Kane Music
http://www.morganokanemusic.com
Every so often, just when you think the well is dry and the tradition is dead, you are gratefully reminded that there is still water down there and that the tradition was only sleeping.Morgan O'Kane from Charlottesville, Virginia is one of those reminders. A virtuoso banjo player, shouter and activist now based in New York City, Morgan recalls two other transplanted legendary southern artists; Reverend Gary Davis and Aunt Molly Jackson. Like the reverend, Morgan honed his skills making a living as a busking street artist. Like Aunt Molly, he has kept his connection to his Appalachian home and its issues, taking part in the campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining, which destroys the land and the people who live on it. Check it out:http://www.mountainjustice.org
While Morgan O'kane clearly knows his way around the old tunes, he is more interested in creating his own. That's how the tradition survives new songs being created on old foundations. This ain't no revival ; this is a contemporary artist who knows where he comes from. He tours with an amalgam of virtuosic musicians including; New York City's Dobro genius, Zeke Healy New Orleans based, Leyla McCalla on Cello, and Ferd Moyse the IV on fiddle (of the Hackensaw Boys) amongst others. He is also comfortable playing solo, with a sort of one- man- band percussion set up complimenting his banjo. He has released two albums in as many years on Dollartone, Nine Lives in 2010 and Pendulum in 2011. A third release is anticipated in 2013.
Morgan is in the film The Porchlight Sessions, which documents bluegrass in America. He also created the sound track for the documentary film, Low Coal, which addresses the coal mining industry in Appalachia. The film, like the music Morgan makes honours the traditions of the Appalachian region but addresses the current struggles faced.
Morgan has to date toured and performed at festivals in Canada, The U.S., Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and the UK.
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Boxcar Joe Strouzer
Boxcar Joe Strouzer plays dark folk and blues on harmonica and parlor guitar.
Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, Joe learnt blues from his father and spent his teenage years listening to Gypsy Dave Smith playing along the cobbles of Pink Lane. He took up the Harmonica aged 17.
On harmonica, Joe has supported blues guitar legend Johnny Winter and performed at venues and festivals all over the UK, Europe and Amercia.
He plays harmonica with John Fairhurst, veteran New York Folk singer Weston Gavin and is a regular collaborator with Heymoonshaker.
As a solo artist he sings, plays guitar and harmonica and recorded and produced his first album Locomotion And Devilment in 2012.
SUPPORT TBA
FREE ENTRY - 8PM
Entry requirements:
http://www.morganokanemusic.com
Every so often, just when you think the well is dry and the tradition is dead, you are gratefully reminded that there is still water down there and that the tradition was only sleeping.Morgan O'Kane from Charlottesville, Virginia is one of those reminders. A virtuoso banjo player, shouter and activist now based in New York City, Morgan recalls two other transplanted legendary southern artists; Reverend Gary Davis and Aunt Molly Jackson. Like the reverend, Morgan honed his skills making a living as a busking street artist. Like Aunt Molly, he has kept his connection to his Appalachian home and its issues, taking part in the campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining, which destroys the land and the people who live on it. Check it out:http://www.mountainjustice.org
While Morgan O'kane clearly knows his way around the old tunes, he is more interested in creating his own. That's how the tradition survives new songs being created on old foundations. This ain't no revival ; this is a contemporary artist who knows where he comes from. He tours with an amalgam of virtuosic musicians including; New York City's Dobro genius, Zeke Healy New Orleans based, Leyla McCalla on Cello, and Ferd Moyse the IV on fiddle (of the Hackensaw Boys) amongst others. He is also comfortable playing solo, with a sort of one- man- band percussion set up complimenting his banjo. He has released two albums in as many years on Dollartone, Nine Lives in 2010 and Pendulum in 2011. A third release is anticipated in 2013.
Morgan is in the film The Porchlight Sessions, which documents bluegrass in America. He also created the sound track for the documentary film, Low Coal, which addresses the coal mining industry in Appalachia. The film, like the music Morgan makes honours the traditions of the Appalachian region but addresses the current struggles faced.
Morgan has to date toured and performed at festivals in Canada, The U.S., Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and the UK.
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Boxcar Joe Strouzer
Boxcar Joe Strouzer plays dark folk and blues on harmonica and parlor guitar.
Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, Joe learnt blues from his father and spent his teenage years listening to Gypsy Dave Smith playing along the cobbles of Pink Lane. He took up the Harmonica aged 17.
On harmonica, Joe has supported blues guitar legend Johnny Winter and performed at venues and festivals all over the UK, Europe and Amercia.
He plays harmonica with John Fairhurst, veteran New York Folk singer Weston Gavin and is a regular collaborator with Heymoonshaker.
As a solo artist he sings, plays guitar and harmonica and recorded and produced his first album Locomotion And Devilment in 2012.
SUPPORT TBA
FREE ENTRY - 8PM
Entry requirements: