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Coming THURSDAY September 18
Sons of Town Hall
Historic Old San Ysidro Church
Of Ghosts and Gods Release Show
Doors 7:00pm - ALL AGES
MUSIC - 7:30pm
Tickets: $30; Children under 15: $16.55
After far too long, the inimitable Sons of Town Hall is charting their path back to Corrales. Occasional Presents Sons of Town Hall ina truly magical venue (966 Old Church Rd, Corrales), for a much needed evening of harmony, hilarity, and hope.
Stars of the hit fiction podcast Madmen Cross the Water, Sons of Town Hall, is the beloved duo of George "Ulysses" Brown (played byBen Parker of London, England) and Josiah "Chester" Jones (played by David Berkeley of Santa Fe, NM). Dressed in threadbareVictorian outfits ), they sing their breathtaking songs accompanied by bewitching guitar parts plucked on old Gibsons. Those songs would be well worth the price of admission alone, but a Sons of Town Hall show is much much more. In between their angelic singing,George and Josiah's repartee is unique and absolutely hilarious. They spin wild and wonderful tales of traveling the world by a boat they built themselves and roaming the frontier looking for work. The affection they feel for each other is contagious, and audiences fall in love with both of them and with life in general. "Think Simon & Garfunkel lost at sea, and you get a sense of the mythic world at play here," writes the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Part balladry, part performance art, and totally cool." You will laugh. You will cry. You will be transfixed and transformed.
"Seamless vocal harmonies...stories of sea voyages, betrayal and desolation... a more coherent concept album you'll be pushed to find." The Observer
"Amazing...Equal parts care and craftsmanship, joy and sorrow, it is a splendour to behold....They simply exist on a different plane than everyone else, asdoes their album." - Folk Radio UK
Nothing short of stunning" - Lisa Schwartz, Director Philadelphia Folk Festival
"Unique and beautiful. Unforgettable." - Phil Collins
"Sensational!" - John Platt, WFUV, NYC
Coming FRIDAY October 3
Peter Mulvey
singer-songwriter
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Rd, Corrales, NM
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
Limited Seating
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee, he took a semester in Ireland, and immediately began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple years gigging in the Midwest before lighting out for Boston, where he returned to busking (this time in the subway) and coffeehouses. Small shows led to larger shows, which eventually led to regional and then national and international touring. The wheels have not stopped since.
Nineteen records, an illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDx talk, opening for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco and Emmylou Harris, appearances on NPR, emceeing festivals, hosting his own boutique festival (the Lamplighter Sessions, in Boston and Wisconsin)… Mulvey never stops. He has built his life’s work on collaboration and an instinct for the eclectic and the vital. He folds everything he encounters into his work: poetry, social justice, scientific literacy, and a deeply abiding humanism. All are on plain display in his art.
Peter will also play Santa Fe on 10/2 - INFO HERE.