Thursday 4 June 2009

Press Release from English Folk Dance and Song Society

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, Camden Town, London NW1 7AY

A Hawk and A Hacksaw

Thursday 18 June 2009

Performance: 7.30pm, Kennedy Hall

Tickets: £12.50

Ticket office: 020 7485 2206 / www.wegottickets.com

www.efdss.org

Miles of Smiles productions in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society are delighted to be hosting an evening with the internationally acclaimed A Hawk and A Hacksaw at Cecil Sharp House on Thursday 18 June.

Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, the A Hawk and A Hacksaw core duo are Jeremy Barnes (former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer) and Heather Trost.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw first released its self-titled debut, a solo effort by Barnes exploring 20th century American music, on Leaf Records in 2004. The following year, after enlisting help from tuba player Mark Weaver, trumpeter Dan Clucas, and violinist Heather Trost, Barnes and the band issued Darkness at Noon, which delved into both Eastern European and American folk music.

Ever the traveller, Barnes relocated to Romania for the group's third album The Way The Wind Blows, recording songs with the Gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia. Having expanded to a six piece band for their upcoming tour A Hawk And A Hacksaw return to London to play in support of their fourth album, Délivrance, recorded in Budapest, Devon and Albuquerque during the second half of 2008. A single, Foni Tu Argile, released on 10" and cut at 78rpm precedes the album.

Support is provided from Doug Shaw’s (White Magic) solo project Highlife and Stephanie Hladowski.

http://www.myspace.com/ahawkandahacksaw

http://www.myspace.com/highlifehighlife

http://www.myspace.com/stephaniehladowski

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For further information please contact Jon Garlick at EFDSS Marketing Department on 020 7485 2206 ext. 22 or marketing_at_efdss_dot_org

NOTE TO EDITORS:

§         For nearly a century the English Folk Dance and Song Society have been preserving and disseminating our folk heritage. The Society aims to promote the best of folk arts through a range of mediums including dance, music, song, film, exhibitions, publications and our library collections; engage new generations with the folk arts through workshops, classes and study, and to ensure that the folk arts are a fundamental part of the cultural life of the UK. The EFDSS is a charity registered in England and Wales, No. 305999

§         Highlife is the solo project of London-born / NYC based musician Doug Shaw (White Magic), influenced by varying styles such as Tropicala and African music including the genre Highlife. Doug Shaw is primarily a vocalist and guitarist, but he also uses samplers, drone machines, shruti box, hand percussions and household fans, to recreate his music live. Highlife toured the UK in early 2009 with Animal Collective and here we present another rare opportunity to catch one of his mesmeric solo performances.

§         Stephanie Hladowski was one of the founder members of Glaswegian free-jazz-improv-folk ensemble Scatter. With experimental Eastern-European elements to her music within the range of traditional folk, Hladowski has been wowing critics with her mature and ancient voice, ‘handling the great ballads with ease and grace’.