Broad Horizons
Peppered with some breck-neck bluegrass, Irish fiddle and bodhran, the night promises a truly transatlantic experience.
Right from the beginning of the year, the Norwich Arts Centre approaches its calendar with its horizons as broad as they could possibly be. Throughout the calendar year, every nuance and divergence of music will be explored between the church walls of the NAC, and it starts with full force with a couple of particular January events.
Tuesday 24th January sees contemporary Appalachian group Acaysha make a long overdue return to NAC to launch their new album 'Whispers from the Woodland'. The Norfolk-based trio are celebrating 15 years of playing together! Acaysha's old-time sounds of frailing banjo, fiddle and guitar, have influences from the likes of Gillian Welch, the Be Good Tanyas and Alison Krauss. Peppered with some breck-neck bluegrass, Irish fiddle and bodhran, the night promises a truly transatlantic experience.
From the north of our kingdom, but channelling the sounds of the deep south USA are Southern Tenant Folk Union, who hit the NAC on Thursday 26th Jan. Taking their name from the groundbreaking multi-racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930’s, the Edinburgh-based Southern Tenant Folk Union are now one of the most highly rated folk and bluegrass outfits in the UK today. ‘The band knock up a fierce, raw and earthy music that is the stuff of Mumford & Sons’ dreams…the results are as compelling as they are oppressively bleak’- Maddy Costa, The Guardian.
