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Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Suggested donation is $8-$10.
Americana music hails from the Elvis Presley marriage of hillbilly
and R&B that birthed rock 'n' roll. Our line-up for the day:
Since its birth in 1996, Solas has been loudly proclaimed
as the most popular, influential, and exciting Celtic band on the
scene. Even before the release of its first Shanachie CD, the Boston
Herald trumpeted the quartet as "the first truly great Irish
band to arise frm America" and the Irish Echo ranked Solas
among the "most exciting bands anywhere in the world."
Since then, the praise has only grown louder. The Philadelphia Inquirer
said they make "mind-blowing Irish folk music, maybe the world's
best" and The New York Times praised their "unbridled
vitality", the Washinton Post dubbed them one of the "world's
finest Celtic-folk ensembles".
Not in the past 30 years has a group taken the international
stage with such a vocal power and stage presence, capturing the
essence of their Irish folk music genre, while standing out as something
truly unique. A host of various instruments and five male vocals,
using precise three-part harmonies blend perfectly for what many
have described as a wall of sound. The Makem Brothers continue the
lineage of one of Irish music's dynasties, begun by their grandmother
Sarah Makem and her vast store of traditional Irish songs. Their
father, Tommy Makem, now considered an icon, helped bring Irish
music out of the corner and into the international spotlight, where
it has remained ever since.
The Molenes forge hard-twang melodies and driving steam-train
rhythms into compelling songs that have been firing up the stages
of the Northeast’s burgeoning Americana/Alt-Country scene since
the band’s inception in 2005. Evoking the burnished lyricism
of Son Volt, the organic atmospherics of Wilco, and the rootsy swagger
of Steve Earle, The Molenes’second album, Songs of Sin and
Redemption Redemption, takes the listener on a tour through both
the dark and light sides of the American experience, a jaunt through
the heartland—both figurative and geographical—that’s
in turns jolting and unsettling, inspiring and uplifting. Jamie
Perkins of the Portsmouth Herald declared, "Songs of Sin and
Redemption seems to be presenting The Molenes as one of the Seacoast's
more compelling and most promising Americana acts."
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY....
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