This show is part of the Southern Fork Americana Fest. Discounts are available when purchasing tickets to more than one show, for more information please visit www.southernfork.co.nz
EB & SPARROW
Eb & Sparrow is a genre-defying, five-piece New Zealand folk band that has been gaining attention across the country from city bars to folk clubs, festivals to house concerts. They have supported Rodriguez, Pokey LaFarge, Beth Orton, Wagons, Delaney Davidson & Marlon Williams, The Warratahs, Anika Moa, Tami Neilson, and Aldous Harding. Their new album is self-titled, self-released and self-assured. The songs are proudly soaring and grounded, dark and bright, dreamy and direct, country and Spanish, 1850s and 1950s, delicate and propulsive, all the while lamenting and laughing. We cast aching crescendoes of a time long gone, into a modern landscape says singer and songwriter Ebony Lamb. Her impressionistic lyrics are imbued with a simple strength that comes from both heart and heartache. Her voice is unique - a cross between Cat Power and Gillian Welch and seems to resurrect an old-time soul into the here and now. Eb & Sparrow will be released in September 2014.
ALDOUS HARDING
Lyttleton-based Aldous Harding has just released her self-titled debut on Lyttelton Records. Co-Produced by Marlon Williams, the album has been critically acclaimed, Rip It Up Magazine giving it 4 stars, and Radio NZ’s Nick Bollinger calling Harding a “unique new voice” who “shifts the air with rarefied grace”. Aldous recently supported Marlon Williams and Melody Pool at the Tuning Fork, with Marty Duda of 13thfloor.co.nz noting “Aldous has a unique stage presence and she knows how to make it work for her.” Of an earlier show supporting Tiny Ruins, 13thfloor.co.nz said “Aldous Harding was wonderful, and really earned the crowd’s standing ovation after a stunningly intimate version of Roy Orbison’s “Crying.”
