SØNDAG 14. SEP 2014 - KL 20.30
ENTRÉ: 120KR

DANIEL ROMANO (CA)

MERIGOLD

DANIEL ROMANO (CA)

 Country Music is a study in contrasts. There's glitz and grit, reveling and wallowing, wretchedness and showmanship. Country music's pioneers wore their battered hearts on sequined sleeves. From Bakersfield to Galveston, the legends traded their tragicomic highs and lows for gold records and white Cadillacs. But that was then; the days of Buckaroos, Nudie Suits and various Hanks are over, save for the museum displays. To quote a George Jones title track, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" 



Enter Daniel Romano, a songwriter who delivers mosey croonin' and hard luck storytelling. While references to marquee names like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard are apparent in Romano's music, the obvious influences certainly don't demystify his talent. Romano works with equal parts authenticity and creativity, and his musical world is rich with archetypes and archrivals, wry observations and earnest confessions.

Romano's debut, Sleep Beneath The Willow, was pure honky tonk poetry, and received impressive response from all corners. The "dreamy homage to a bygone country-music era" (Globe & Mail) made the Polaris Long List, and solidified Romano's reputation as a solo artist.

Come Cry With Me furthers his Mosey aesthetic, musical and visual. Again self-produced and played, for the most part, by himself, Romano's new album continues with themes of bad choices, hard times, boozing and losing. Amidst the tales of woebegone orphans, family knots and broken hearts, there are spoken word yarns that recall Hank Williams-as-Luke The Drifter. Romano's deep rumbling baritone vocal dips serve, conversely, to lighten the mood, leaving no doubt that this artist knows how to deliver a punch line. 



The album has since been nominated for a Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Solo Album of the Year.

 

MERIGOLD

Merigold er en folk- og countrysanger, hvis sange beretter om kærlighedens uforståelighed, om fejl og fortrydelser og en ambivalens omkring eksistens, skæbne og tro. Sangene er leveret af en oprigtig og diskant vokal, der akkompagneres af akustisk guitar og hylende lap steel.

Merigold, der denne aften optræder som duo, arbejder i øjeblikket på at færdiggøre sit debutalbum, Songs and Reality, der udkommer omkring årsskiftet.

TILFØJ TIL KALENDER
Søndag 14. sep 2014
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