Dear All
Although it is still bitingly cold as I write this, the soil
is beginning to dry out and yesterday I actually felt the sun on my back which
all means it is not long until The
Spring Harequinox!
To celebrate the lengthening days, Wild Hare Club favourites
Morning Bride and rootsy bluegrass
outfit The Fordsons will be playing
for your pleasure upstairs at The Black
Lion in Hereford on Thursday 21st
March @ 8.00pm.
Morning Bride
will be showcasing songs from their long-awaited second album The North Sea Rising. Created over three days in a basement studio
beneath a ukelele shop on East London's Brick Lane, The North Sea Rising
captures Morning Bride's natural evolution towards a warmer and more intimate
sound, allowing lead singer Amity Joy Dunn's delicate, honey-dripping voice to
truly shine, and Mark James Pearson's songs to breathe more deeply. Now a streamlined three-piece, Amity and
Mark's lush harmonies blend effortlessly with Pete Bennett's trademark
bottleneck and slide. Variously described by other writers as gothic Americana,
off-kilter folk rock, alt-country pop and most things in between. However the thing
about Morning Bride for me is that at the heart of their music are some simply
glorious tunes.
Amity of Morning Bride
The Fordsons
promise to bring a musical programme of old time and mountain music from their front porch in the Black Mountains. Beautiful harmonies, gutsy guitar, banjo and
joyful fiddle ... sounds like a celestial choir meets the devil at the
crossroads and then they all get down for a big knees-up! Well that’s what they told me and who’s going
to say no to that?
Entrance is FREE but a hat will be
passed round to cover petrol costs and, of course, copies of the new Morning
Bride CD will be available for purchase. To quote the early fliers of the
Carter Family 'The Programme is Morally
Good'…..
So long ‘til then, Richard
