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Sun26Mar202320:00Futurum Music Bar, Praha-Smíchov
Lauren Ruth Ward (US)
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A multifaceted warrior heralded from Baltimore, Maryland, LaurenRuth Ward‘s lyrics are alchemy drenched in raspy power. Single by single, Ward’s been releasing her new body of work that’s both electric and introspective. Following the death and rebirth of personal and musical relationships, this recent collection of confessions was written, performed, produced and mastered predominantly by women. You can catch Lauren on her headlining tours in the United States this October (2022) as well as her headlining European / UK tour in March and April of 2023.
She has played to sold out crowds in US and overseas, sharing stages with artists as diverse as Keith Urban, Shirley Manson, Eddie Vedder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shakey Graves, LP and Liz Phair.
The concert is financialy supported by Ministry of culture of the Czech Republic and State fond of culture of the Czech Republic.
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Tue11Oct202220:00Kasárna Karlín, Praha-Karlín
Sam Lee (UK)
[show details…]Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. He’s an acclaimed, award-winning inventive singer, a folksong collector, conservationist and promoter of live events as founder/director of The Nest Collective who’ve helped shake up the music scene and injected life back into the folk trad and world acoustic scene.
His 1st release, "Ground Of Its Own" in 2012, was short-listed for a Mercury Music Prize. His sophomore release saw lead track 'Lovely Molly' win a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Traditional Track. Sam was named Artist of the Year at the 2016 Songlines Magazine Awards, the year in which he wrote and performed the lead song for Guy Ritchie’s Hollywood film ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’.
"Old Wow+", released in September 2021, sees Sam update his 3rd album released on the eve of the pandemic and which now features 6 new bonus tracks. On ‘Old Wow’ he includes electric guitar for the first time, played by the album’s producer Bernard Butler (Suede). Special guest appearances are provided by Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack), Cosmo Sheldrake & Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh (The Gloaming) and the new version features performances recorded for English Heritage at Stonehenge as well as on site during his annual ‘Singing with Nightingales’ events. Sam is a founding member of Music Declares Emergency, and is closely involved with Extinction Rebellion.
The concert is financialy supported by Ministry of culture of the Czech Republic and State fond of culture of the Czech Republic.
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Sun02Oct202220:00Café V lese, Prague
McGoldrick McCusker & Doyle (UK/IRL)
[show details…]Folk music's legendary triumvirate of musical magpies Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker & Doyle are on tour again this October. As live music returns, Mike, John & John will bring you their own blend of top-class folk songs, tunes and charming bonhomie. The trio's last join album „The Reed That Bends in the Storm“ was released in 2020.
With their vast repertoire and last year released album, The Wishing Tree, this will be an evening to remember. Described as the masters of flute, fiddle, song and guitar they have worked with the biggest and brightest musicians in the world and bring you a night of beautifully crafted music. Mike McGoldrick (Manchester – flute, whistles, Uileann pipes, bodhran, clarinet, congas) is a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner, founding member of Lúnasa, and current member of Capercaillie, who has worked with Mark Knopfler, Eddi Reader, John Cale. BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner John McCusker (Glasgow – fiddle, whistles, harmonium) has played with The Battlefield Band, Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan, recorded with Paul Weller, and recently produced albums for Eddi Reader, Heidi Talbot and Kris Drever. John Doyle (Dublin – vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandola) is an Irish music linchpin and a founder member of acclaimed group Solas, who has worked with Joan Baez, Linda Thompson and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Mike, John & John are a rare musical treat you'll savour for a very long time.
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Tue13Sep202220:00Café V lese, Praha-Vršovice
Andrew Combs (US) + support: Alasdair Bouch (UK)
[show details…]Though born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and artist Andrew Combs can’t say for certain he identifies with any one place in particular. Through years of drawing on ethereal and visceral beauty wherever he can find it, his work is more accurately a measured synthesis of a wide array of “places”: the literal and the figurative, those he has been to and others he has yet to see. His newest full-length album, Sundays (out August 19, 2022), is reflective of those varied places that inform Combs’ creative work.
Written on the heels of a mental breakdown Combs had at Christmas of 2020—amid the long, monotonous grind of an ongoing global pandemic—Sundays came together in Nashville in early 2021. In the wake of this debilitating psychological crack-up, Combs turned to the practice of transcendental meditation to find balance and to, in the words of surrealist director David Lynch, “catch the big fish”. Alongside his collaborators, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billet, Combs would go into the studio every Sunday, the goal being to capture a song he had penned the previous week as he plumbed the depths of his own heart and mind.
And from the album’s first notes, one does get the feeling of a lazy Sunday: the pace loping along for several measures, creating the sensation of a slow, carefree morning—up until the point it suddenly doesn’t seem so serene. Through the course of the 11-song collection, Sundays manages to capture that sense of being mentally and emotionally unmoored, the anxious tension of falling apart, of being incapacitated and grasping at whatever one can hold onto for equilibrium. As a result of his deep dive into his own fragmented subconscious, Combs’ writing speaks to the absurdity of our tendency to point our fingers rather than look within (“Mark of the Man”), the naivety of youth (“Adeline”), and the perspective gained in deep self-reflection and meditation (“Still Water”). But at the center of Sundays is a pervasive sense of quiet hope, and a recognition of an inherent balance that’s possible, succinctly summarized in the refrain of “(God)less”:
We are capable of such a mess,
But God still lives on in godlessness.As for instrumentation, the often bleak and completely minimal approach on Combs’ newest record lies in stark contrast to his earlier work. Going away from the more traditional roots arrangements on his albums All These Dreams and Canyons of my Mind, Sundays leans away from the more linear Americana-inflected instrumentation and structure and into darker and more sparse territory. Instead of lush strings and longing pedal steel behind fingerpicked acoustic guitar, we find a lonely, thumb-strummed electric being colored by brooding woodwinds—yielding a blend of hopeful lift, and a somberness that channels the dark tension of a film noir detective show.
For Combs and his collaborators, the technical side of the recording process was something of an experiment and a departure of its own:
“[Sundays] was recorded in mono, with no delay or reverberation on anything. It started as an exercise in keeping arrangements simple—adding many overdubs without the option of panning just becomes muddy, so we had to strip things down to accommodate. The mono sound ended up being the perfect match for the minimalist, meditative songs I was writing. The overall tone feels like a black-and-white short film.”
Indeed, the sense of dull ache that underpins Sundays feels akin to the sparse, cinematic silence of an Ingmar Bergman film; the record’s second song, “Anna Please”, was directly inspired by Bergman’s Cries and Whispers (1972). In its own understated way, highlighted by the minimalist sonic palette and Combs’ soft, breathy tenor, Sundays runs the gamut considering the absurdity of human thought and behavior. But, as we make our way through the album, it feels as though an almost-imperceptible progression is happening, a movement toward some kind of resolve, at least, if not peace.
And once we reach the end with “Shall We Go?”, a song informed by Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, Combs’ invites himself and the listener to part ways. But there’s no “place” that we know we should go to, and it’s here that we realize that, even if we did, there would ultimately be no arrival. We are only asked to be patient, to look around us and especially within ourselves, to hold our anxious uncertainty in its delicate balance—while we wait for whatever is next to come up the road.
- Kirby Brown
As a support you will see Prague based, English songwritter Alasdair Bouch.
The concert is supported by grants of Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic.
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Sun26Jun202219:30Cross Club, Open air stage, Praha-Holešovice
Daniel Romano (CAN) + Adrian T. Bell (UK/CZ) + Carson McHone (US)
[show details…]Daniel Romano is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, visual artist and founder of You've Changed Records, member of Attack In Black, Ancient Shapes, Spider Bite and Alias Ensemble. In recent years he has been performing with his backing band Daniel Romano's Outfit, with whom he will also perform in Prague for the very first time.
The Canadian music magazine Exclaim! described him as a musical chameleon and identified the basic musical genres he moves freely from one to another on his albums and in concert: gentle rustic folk, retro country, classic and psychedelic rock and punk. His albums have been nominated several times for the Canadian Juno Award and the Polaris Music Prize. He has certainly not slacked off over the past 2 covid years, releasing 14 albums of new songs and archival material, either on his own or under the name Daniel Romano's The Outfit, including the 22 minute suite Forever's Love Fool with Tool drummer Danny Carey and his latest album "Cobra's Poems".Guest: Adrian T. Bell - Prague-based native of Newcastle, England, a singer-songwriter with a distinctive and exceptional bass-baritone and former frontman of the respected The Prostitutes with his own band.
Carson McHone - an American singer-songwriter from Texas. Her album "Carousel", was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the best country & americana albums of 2018. In 2022, she's releasing her second album "Still Life", produced by Daniel Romano.
The concert is supported by grants of Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic.
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Sun05Jun202220:00Cross Club, Open air stage, Praha-Holešovice
Cash Savage & The Last Drinks (AUS)
[show details…]It's imposible to overlook CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS on the Australian music scene. In an era when the world is falling apart with such a deafening roar, Cash Savage’s voice rings loud over the cacophony. Songs of politics, grief, songs of rage - this is weighty music that has been written to cut through the noise. Savage’s band The Last Drinks are a powerhouse of fierce and brooding energy, every bit as committed to her songs and message. Every performance by this band is as epic as it is honest, raw and human.
The band's last album "Live At The Hamer Hall" came out in november 2020. This stunning live album documents a lockdown performance by Cash Savage and the Last Drinks in the iconic venue, and captures the ferocity of the band’s live show, astonishingly without an audience.
"One of the most powerful bands in the country… you won’t hear much that’s better than this." - The Guardian
The concert is supported by grants of Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic.
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Wed04May202220:00Punctum-Krásovka, Praha-Žižkov
Brìghde Chaimbeul (SCO), NEW DATE
[show details…]Brìghde Chaimbeul plays the Scottish smallpipes, a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a double-note drone. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, she began learning the pipes as a young girl and at the age of seventeen won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Her 2019 debut album, The Reeling, produced by LAU's Aidan O'Rourke, won her major media plaudits, five-star reviews, and a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, for its fresh reading of traditional Gaelic tunes and outward looking assimilation of influences from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland, played with an enticing virtuosic liquidity, emphasising the rich textural drones of the smallpipes. Still just in her early twenties, Brìghde Chaimbeul has established herself among the leading experimental purveyors of Celtic music.
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Sun14Nov202120:00Café V lese, Praha
CANCELED: McGoldrick McCusker & Doyle (UK/IRL)
[show details…]Folk music's legendary triumvirate of musical magpies Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker & Doyle are on tour again this November. As live music returns, Mike, John & John will bring you their own blend of top-class folk songs, tunes and charming bonhomie.
With their vast repertoire and last year released album, The Wishing Tree, this will be an evening to remember. Described as the masters of flute, fiddle, song and guitar they have worked with the biggest and brightest musicians in the world and bring you a night of beautifully crafted music. Mike McGoldrick (Manchester – flute, whistles, Uileann pipes, bodhran, clarinet, congas) is a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner, founding member of Lúnasa, and current member of Capercaillie, who has worked with Mark Knopfler, Eddi Reader, John Cale. BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner John McCusker (Glasgow – fiddle, whistles, harmonium) has played with The Battlefield Band, Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan, recorded with Paul Weller, and recently produced albums for Eddi Reader, Heidi Talbot and Kris Drever. John Doyle (Dublin – vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandola) is an Irish music linchpin and a founder member of acclaimed group Solas, who has worked with Joan Baez, Linda Thompson and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Mike, John & John are a rare musical treat you'll savour for a very long time.
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Wed22Sep202120:00Praha, Café V lese
VickiKristinaBarcelona (US) - Songs of Tom Waits
[show details…]One of New York City’s most beloved and talked-about bands, VickiKristinaBarcelona band transforms the Songs of Tom Waits, showing them in a new light, a genre unto themselves, while maintaining the original humor and pathos. Their repertoire explores the vast landscape of Waits’ styles, by turns danceable and philosophical, humorous, unsettling and heart-warming. The beautiful song melodies are unearthed by breathtakingly gorgeous and inventive three-part harmonies and often surprising arrangements, via an array of instruments including accordion, guitar, percussion, harmonium, banjo, bottles and bells.
Rachelle Garniez, Amanda Homi a Terry Radigan are each seasoned singer-songwriters with distinctive differences.
Rachelle’s genre-fluid Cabaret, Amanda’s Global rhythms and forms, and Terry’s traditional Americana Roots all combine to form a sound greater than the sum of its’ parts.The name of the band is an adaptation of a Woody Allen movie title. As the film centers on the story of three strong women and their complicated dance around a male character, it is a reflection of the group’s dynamic and mission. There is a playfulness to the reference, a sly wink and a reclaiming of female power.
Their first CD, “Pawn Shop Radio” takes its’ title from a lyric in the bluegrass tinged ominous version of “Gun Street Girl” and came out 29 May 2020.
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Tue17Dec201919:30Praha, Potrvá
Ye Vagabonds (IRL)
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Wed27Nov201919:30Praha, Café Vlese
Lauren Ruth Ward (US), support: Emma Cole (US) + Aiko (CZ)
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Tue12Nov201920:00Praha, Rock Café
Flook (UK/IRL), support: Sona (CZ)
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Fri20Sep201920:30Praha, Café V lese
Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni (IT)
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Thu20Jun201920:30Praha, Café V lese
Cash Savage & The Last Drinks (AUS)
