'Rounder Songs' Release Show - 11/30 at National Sawdust
By: Emily Bruno
Folk composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Emily Pinkerton and contemporary classical composer/NOW Ensemble member Patrick Burke announce the album release performance for their new collaborative work with chamber group NOW Ensemble, Rounder Songs, on November 30at Brooklyn's National Sawdust. Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Grey McMurraywill also perform.
Rounder Songs is a song cycle for voice, banjo and chamber ensemble that brings together the sounds of 21st century post-minimalist classical music and North American old-time. The work is based on public domain songs and legends from Kentucky and West Virginia that tell the stories of several "rounders": rural drifters who include a gambler, a murderer, and a mill laborer who strikes a deal with the devil. The album will be released November 17 on New Amsterdam Records, more album info here.Album trailer for "Rounder Songs" - featuring track "Pretty Polly"
