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Folked Up
Hi everyone. Sorry for the delay in new posts. I am working today and tomorrow to play catch up been busy the last week. Rest assured though, tomorrow that's folked up will return with new exciting folk artists!
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Artist Bio: Sorcha Richardson is a 21-year-old folk musician from Dublin, Ireland. She is currently a writing major at The New School in New York City.
She has been a guitarist since she was 9, a drummer since she was 11, and is a self-taught pianist. Throughout high school, Sorcha was the drummer in a number bands. No one, least of all herself, considered her a singer. Sorcha had been writing songs, however, since she was ten. When she arrived in New York at the age of 18 and she realized she had a notebook full of songs and no one to sing them so she decided to sing them herself.
In the summer of 2010, Sorcha played her first showed in Dublin, and has been gigging both in New York and Ireland ever since.
In 2011, she was diagnosed with a treated for thyroid cancer, halting her music career. The song “Midnight Whistle” released exactly one year after her treatment began is about this experience. Almost back to full health, Sorcha has kept herself busy in 2012, and is already seeing the results.
She was recently featured in The Irish Times and on music blog Nialler9 and her song I Heart NYC has been played on a number Irish radio stations.
Sorcha has embarked on many collaborative projects with various musicians, including New York City music collective Colossal Mantis (ongoing), Berlin based DJ Karl M (2011), North Carolina based producer Bookworm (set for release 2012), and Irish singer-songwriter Lisa O’Brien (set for release 2012).
Sorcha will release a 5 track EP early this summer before returning to Ireland in July for 6 weeks to play a string of yet to be announced show
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Artist Bio: Joe Pug is a singer-songwriter from Chicago. He has released two EPs, Nation of Heat and In the Meantime, the latter of which has been made available for free on his website. He has toured extensively since 2008 and has opened for alt-country pioneer Steve Earle, singer-songwriter Josh Ritter and folk rocker M. Ward among others. Pug released his first full-length album, Messenger, in February 2010.[1]
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Artist Bio:Boy & Bear formed in 2009, Boy & Bear originally began as a solo project for Dave Hosking. Jake Tarasenko joined and then they expanded with Killian Gavin and Tim Hart, all members being singer / songwriters.[2][3][4] All the members originally fronted their own groups, and became friends after sharing the stage on many occasions.[5] They later expanded to a quintet with Jon Hart.[6]
The band has received national airplay on NovaFM and Triple J[4] and in October 2009, the band was the ‘feature artist’ on radio Triple J’s Unearthedprogram.[5] The band signed with Universal[3] and they have won Unearthed competition, giving them a spot at Homebake 2009, toured Australia withAngus and Julia Stone and Hungry Kids of Hungary.[1][6] In 2010, they toured Britain with Laura Marling and Alessi’s Ark,[7] supported Mumford & Sons in their Australian tour, and released their debut EP, With Emperor Antarctica.[8] The EP peaked at #63 on the Australian ARIA Charts.[9] In 2010 they were a part of He Will Have His Way, a tribute album to the Finn brothers, where they recorded the song “Fall at Your Feet”. This later placed as number 5 inTriple J’s Hottest 100, 2010. Another one of their successful tracks, “Rabbit Song” also placed as number 45 in that year’s count.
As well as their cover of “Fall at Your Feet” charting at #34 on the ARIA Charts in November 2010, their new single “Feeding Line” recently debuted at #49 on the chart. One of the group’s hits, “Mexican Mavis”, was featured on 90210 episode “Nerdy Little Secrets”.[10]
On 5th August 2011, Boy & Bear released their debut album Moonfire. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Joe Chicarelli. The album reached #2 on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart.
In December 2011, it was announced that Moonfire had come 3rd in the Triple J album poll of 2011.
During the 2011 Hottest 100 Boy & Bear charted three times. “Part time believer” and “Milk & Sticks” came #50 and #49 respectively. While “Feeding Line” cracked the top 5 and came #4, beating their cover of “Fall At Your Feet” they set in the previous year.
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Artist Bio:The Mountain Goats (stylized “the Mountain Goats”) is an American folk indie rock band formed in Claremont, California by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle himself, despite the plural moniker.
Darnielle remains the sole core member of the band, but has worked with a variety of collaborators over the years, including bassist Peter Hughes, drummer Jon Wurster (of Superchunk), singer-songwriter Franklin Bruno, bassist and vocalist Rachel Ware, singer-songwriter/producer John Vanderslice, guitarist Kaki King, and Annie Clark (of St. Vincent).[1][2]
Throughout the 1990s, the Mountain Goats were known for producing “militantly lo-fi” home recordings (most famously, on a boom box) and releasing recordings in cassette or vinyl 7” formats.[3] Since 2002, the Mountains Goats have transitioned to a more polished approach, recording studio albums with a full band.[1][3]
The Mountain Goats are currently based in Durham, North Carolina.
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Artist Bio: First Aid Kit is a Swedish folk duo composed of sisters Johanna (b. 1990) and Klara (b. 1993) Söderberg, whose close vocal harmonies and woodsy, folk-influenced songwriting take influence from the likes of Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsom. Hailing from Enskede, a southern suburb of Stockholm, the teenaged siblings began composing songs in 2007. Their 2008 YouTube video cover of the song “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” by Fleet Foxes spread their name rapidly on the Internet, the sisters subsequently appeared alongside Fleet Foxes performing the song in a concert in Holland.
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Artist Bio:Here is what I know about Mount Moriah, though they have many videos they don’t have very much information listed on their website. So I have requested some and until I hear back from them here are the basics.
They are from: Durham NC/Chapel Hill NC
They are signed to: Holidays For Quince Records
Here’s their website http://www.mountmoriahband.com/
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Artist Bio: Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario,[1] the band is currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and harmonium, Greg Millson on drums, Bret Higgins on upright bass and Miranda Mulholland on violin and backing vocals. Past members included Julie Fader, now a solo singer-songwriter, on backing vocals, Sandro Perri on guitar, and Colin Huebert, now associated with the band Siskiyou, on drums.
The band’s style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine and Neil Young,[2] as well as Will Oldham[3] (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and Sufjan Stevens.[4] Dekker has said his influences include Gram Parsons and Hank Williams.[5]
