Eb And Sparrow Announce New Album + Tour

Wellington-based indie folk group Eb & Sparrow have announced the impending arrival of a new album and a corresponding 17-date tour of the country. Titled Sun/Son, the record is due out 28th August through Southbound / Deadbeat Records. Here are the details for the tour, which takes place throughout September and October...

Eb & Sparrow National Tour

Saturday 5th September, San Fran, Wellington
Saturday 12th September,Common Room, Hastings
Sunday 13th September,Tin Hut, Wairarapa
Thursday 17th September, The Art Gallery, Tauranga
Friday 18th September, Walton Street, Te Awamutu
Saturday 19th September,Wine Cellar Auckland
Sunday 20th September Leigh Sawmill, Leigh
Monday 21st September, Freida Margolis, Auckland
Friday 2nd October, Whanganui Musicians Club, Whanganui
Friday 16th October, Nelson Arts Festival, Nelson
Saturday 17th October, Dharma Bums Club, Blenheim
Sunday 18th October, Barrytown Hall, Barrytown
Thursday 22nd October, Hilltop Tavern, Akaroa
Friday 23rd October, Wunderbar, Lyttelton
Saturday 24th October, Chicks Hotel, Dunedin
Sunday 25th October, Lot 3 Café, Wanaka
Saturday 31 October, St Peters, Paekakariki

Tickets to most shows available HERE at UTR

Enjoy the brand new video for 'The Sun', the first video from forthcoming album Sun/Son....

PRESS RELEASE:

EB & SPARROW
“Sun/Son” August 28th ( Deadbeat Records/Southbound)

With an edge that harks back to old time jazz and blues singers', Ebony Lamb of Eb & Sparrow has led her band of talented men on a musical journey that began in 2010. They’ve traversed a pathway that has led them onto stages with an astonishing string of folk-heroes: Rodriguez, Beth Orton, Pokey LaFarge, Wagons, The Warratahs, Tami Neilson and Marlon Williams to name a few.

Eb & Sparrow have carved out a niche, creating a soundscape that is at once spacious and lush, nuanced alt-country music that swings out into folk, soul, and rockabilly. Ebony’s voice slides along the edges of Cat Power and Gillian Welch, and with a captivating presence, she delivers lyrics that dust off the truth to life’s hopes and heartbreaks.

With delightful cover art by Grimoire and recorded with engineer and Tui Award winning producer Brett Stanton, they have crafted their new songs into a strong and beautifully articulate album culminating together as Sun/Son. There are moments on the record where the guitar warbles in and out through a timeworn Selmer amplifier, but the band doesn’t try to rehash the past.

They hear the strains of a time long gone, and imbue each song with its memory; but let the songs stand in the present, a contemporary landscape colouring their canon of songs.

Dedicated to the original sound they have created are:
Ebony Lamb (vocals, guitar), Bryn Heveldt (guitars), Jason Johnson (bass and guitar), Chris Winter (brass, guitar, bass) and Nick Brown (drums).

Eb & Sparrow are accompanying the release with a seventeen-date tour from the far north to the far south of throughout September and October.