Two of the leading lights of the Cursing Kerouac fraternity of traveling Hobo Troubadours, Carrie and Danny are life as well as music partners, and just about as good as it gets individually, so together they will be wonderful. Check out Cursing Kerouachttp://www.youtube.com/user/CursingKerouac and we highly recommend you go see them at your local show, heres more information, look out for more from this tour at the Cursing Kerouac web log as it happens .
CARRIE ELKIN www.carrieelkin.comhttp://houseconcerthub.ning.com/profile/CarrieElkin : A troubadour in the most classic fashion, Carrie Elkin has ridden a Gypsy breeze of serendipity for the last ten years, landing for a time in Cleveland, Athens, Taos, Steamboat Springs, Colorado Springs and Boston, finally coming to settle in Austin, TX in the summer of 2007. It’s exactly this sort of openness to the people and places that pass through her life, and to the opportunities that might emerge in every new and particular circumstance, that grew to become the central theme of her brilliant new album “The Jeopardy of Circumstance”. The album features two other stalwarts of the Austin scene, her best friend Danny Schmidt and long-time friend and colleague Colin Brooks of The Band of Heathens. While already making quite a buzz around the Austin scene with her highly spirited and spontaneous performances, Elkin spends the majority of her time on the road still, touring nationally and in the UK and Europe.
DANNY SCHMIDT: Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter, Danny Schmidt www.dannyschmidt.com has been building an enthusiastic (nearly cult-like) following while simultaneously inspiring the admiration of his fellow artists and critical acclaim from industry professionals. He is an authentic timeless troubadour in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Dave Carter, who delivers his craft with a quiet power, a level of complexity and an underlying humanity that is truly rare in this age of sound bite marketeering. It's his songwriting which won him the prestigous Kerrville New Folk award, but it's his intense live performances that leave listeners with a sense that each of his songs is necessary, plain and simple. His guitar work is effortless and sparkling, his arrangements are fresh and unpredictable, his voice ageless. Stylistically and musically, Danny’s writing spans an impressively diverse reach, from deeply-rooted Appalachian mountain gospel to haunted English balladry, from syncopated Piedmont country blues to vagabond 60’s protest folk-stumpery. He tackles universal themes of love, loss and longing . . . restless discontent and grateful joy. And he captures both the sorrow and the beauty inherent in our everyday lives with the wisdom of a perceptive, compassionate elder and with the innocent awe and tenderness of a child.
In the words of Sing Out Magazine: "He is perhaps the best new songwriter we've heard in the last 15 years." And in the words of Texas Monthly: "With seductive simplicity, his music simply demands your attention."
Sunday 29 November 2009
Venue The Beacon Hotel, Beacon Folk Club
Tunbridge Wells
Postcode TN3 9JH
Venue website www.the-beacon.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 01892 524252
Other ticket outlet
Doors 8pm
Monday 30 November 2009
Venue London House Concert
Postcode Private
Venue website
Venue/box office tel:
Other ticket outlet by invite only
Doors
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Venue The Six Bells Chiddingly, Sussex
Postcode BN8 6HE
Venue website www.6bellsfolk.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 01825 873337
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30 pm
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Venue The Kitchen Garden Cafe,
17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham,
Postcode B14 7SA
Venue website http://www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/
Venue/box office tel: 0121 443 4725
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30 pm
Thursday 3 December 2009
Venue Lauries Bar
34 King Street,Glasgow, Scotland
Postcode G1 5QT
Venue website www.lauriesacousticmusicbar.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 0141 5527123
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £10
Friday 4 December 2009
Venue The Cluny 2
Lime Street Newcastle, Tyne on Wear
Postcode NE1 2PQ
Venue website www.jumpinhot.com
Venue/box office tel: 01912304474
Other ticket outlet ticketweb
Doors 7.30pm
£10
Note 24th Anniversary gig -Headline will be Peter Molinari
Saturday 5 December 2009
Venue Belper Music & Arts @The Kings Head Belper
Postcode DE56 1FF
Venue website www.belpermusicandarts.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 01773 825525
Other ticket outlet None
Doors 8pm
Sunday 6 December 2009
Venue Barnsley House Concert
Wombwell, Barnsley, Yorkshire
Postcode S73 8ES
Venue website www.wombwellfolk.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: by invite only
Other ticket outlet None
Doors 8pm
£ suggested donation £10
Monday 7 December 2009
Venue David A Connolly House Concert Linford House , Lichfield
Postcode WS13 7EU
Venue website
Venue/box office tel: By invite only
Other ticket outlet
£ suggested donation £10
Tuesday 8 December 2009
Venue Amberley Folk Club @ The Black Horse
Amberley
Postcode BN18 9NL
Venue website http://www.amberleyfolkclub.com/index.php
Venue/box office tel 07787 570207
Other ticket outlet None
Doors 7.30pm
£ £7
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Venue St Bonaventura Social Club
Bristol Avon
Postcode BS7 8HP
Venue website http://www.crhmusic.com/
Venue/box office tel: 0145 255 0575
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £10adv
Thursday 10 December 2009
Venue Taylor John's House Coventry
Postcode CV1 4LY.
Venue website http://www.thetinangel.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 024 76559958
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £8 adv / £10 door
Friday 11 December 2009
Venue The Old Courthouse
Thirsk, Yorkshire
Postcode YO7 1QS
Venue website www.inthedock.net
Venue/box office tel: 01845 595911
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £10
Saturday 12 December 2009
Venue Private House Concert (venue TBC - might be in a formal venue)
Chippin, Lancs Lancashire
Postcode
Venue website
Venue/box office tel: By invite only
Other ticket outlet
Doors
Sunday 13 December 2009
Venue The Green Note
London
Postcode NW1 7AN
Venue website www.greennote.co.uk
Doors 7pm
Venue/box office tel 020 7485 9899
Other ticket outlet None
£ £9 adv.
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