Thursday, May 7, 2009 / 8:00 PM Regular: $8 |
Broadside Ballads: Alela Dianewith mariee sioux
Following on from the success of the folk series last November The Loft introduces Broadside Ballads a monthly night of folk, rock, Americana and roots featuring national and international artists telling their stories through song.
If you look up Broadside Ballads on Wikipedia you’ll find it’s a term as old as the hills reaching way back to ye olde Robin Hood days! A Broadside was the name given to a sheet of paper on which just a set of lyrics, some news or a story was written and often accompanied a traditional piece of music. The earliest forms of the printed word! Often performed by rural folk and travelers in public houses and on the roads. Among the topics of broadside ballads were love, religion, drinking-songs, legends, and early journalism, which included disasters, political events and signs, wonders and prodigies.
Coming back to the modern day – we love to celebrate these 21st century wandering minstrels, hear their stories and tales of politics, love and woe in our intimate space.
We thought who better to start off our series than Rough Trade artist Alela Diane performing songs from her 2009 release To Be Still in the midst of supporting Iron & Wine on a string of west coast dates.
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