the John Renbourn group featuring Jacqui McShee & Sue Draheim
Sunday, May 8, 2005
folk baroque innovators, co-founders of Pentangle
Door 7:30pm, Music 8:00pm |
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$20.50
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Master guitarist John Renbourn and vocalist Jacqui McShee, bywords in the British folk-rock world since they helped found the seminal group Pentangle in the late 1960s, bring to the Freight stage the rich repertoire and shared experience that is the fruit of four decades of musical collaboration. And just to make the evening even sweeter, Sue Draheim adds her fiddle to the mix.
Exploring the guitar in unusual and beautiful ways, John takes his listeners through a luxuriant musical landscape of masterful playing, warm vocals, and witty asides. The consummate fingerstylist plays a unique folk-baroque fusion of British and Celtic folk music with jazz, blues, ragtime, classical, Middle Eastern, and pre-Renaissance music. His most recent album, Traveller's Prayer (Shanachie), focuses on traditional Irish and English songs.
Known for her lovely soprano and wide-ranging musical tastes, London-born Jacqui has remained a constantly experimenting presence in Pentangle through many personnel changes (including John's departure in 1978); in 1999 the group released Passe Avant (Park), its first album in its current incarnation as Jacqui McShee's Pentangle.
A talented fiddle player whose eclectic style includes elements of Southern Appalachian, Country, Cajun, Irish and English fiddle styles with a little bit of Indian influence thrown in, Oakland-born Sue is a former member of Golden Bough, Tempest, and Any Old Time Stringband.
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