The Spring Harequinox! Thursday 21st March

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 21^st 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