Alasdair Roberts
+ special guests
Landless
The Vintage Room, The Workman's Club,
Thursday 18th December
Doors 8pm
Tickets €10 available here http://tinyurl.com/n678usw
“Few, if any, artists are pushing the boundaries of traditional music further.” Uncut
“A master of scordatura techniques on the guitar… an exceptional lyricist… the sound of new myths and new music being hewn from folk’s stone.” The Wire
A very special night lies ahead in the intimate surroundings of The Vintage Room with Alasdair Roberts, one of the most singular, captivating & prolific folk artists of his generation. Support on the night is from the heart-meltingly wonderful Landless.
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is a musician (primarily a singer, guitarist, writer of songs and interpreter of traditional songs and ballads) based in Glasgow, Scotland. Since 1997 he has released eleven albums of his music, mostly on the Drag City label, and has worked with a wide range of musical collaborators. He has toured widely both at home in Scotland and abroad - in USA, Canada, Europe, South America and Australia - and both solo and with various bands.
His musical work mainly consists of two parallel strands: self-written song material - which can be heard on albums such as Farewell Sorrow (2003), The Amber Gatherers (2007), Spoils (2009) and A Wonder Working Stone (2013) - and interpretations of traditional songs and ballads from Scotland and beyond - which can be heard on albums such as The Crook of My Arm (2001), No Earthly Man (2005) and Too Long In This Condition (2010). In 2001 he collaborated with Will Oldham and the late Jason Molina for a project named Amalgamated Sons of Rest, with the resulting self-titled LP/CD being released on Galaxia Records. He has also released an album made in collaboration with the Scottish Gaelic singer Mairi Morrison entitled Urstan (2012), and featured on a couple of CD releases on the Delphian label in collaboration with the Scottish early music group Concerto Caledonia.
Alasdair has collaborated with artists from other disciplines such as puppeteers (Shane Connolly of Sokobauno Puppet Theatre, with whom he worked on a puppet theatre interpretation of the Scottish folk play ‘Galoshins’), film makers (including Luke Fowler, contributing a soundtrack to his film ‘All Divided Selves’) and, more recently, a poet - Robin Robertson, with whom he made the 2013 album Hirta Songs (Stone Tape Recordings), a song cycle about the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda.
In addition to these projects, Alasdair also recently became a member of the English/Scottish folk quartet The Furrow Collective, along with Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton and Emily Portman. The group’s first album At Our Next Meeting was released earlier this year on Furrow Recordings. Alasdair’s next CD/LP, a collection of self-written material, is entitled ‘Alasdair Roberts’ and will be released in January 2015 on Drag City.
www.alasdairroberts.com
www.dragcity.com
Landless
Landless are Lily Power, Meabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinead Lynch. Formed in 2013 in Drogheda and based in Dublin and Belfast, they sing unaccompanied traditional songs in four-part harmony
http://landless.bandcamp.com/
+ special guests
Landless
The Vintage Room, The Workman's Club,
Thursday 18th December
Doors 8pm
Tickets €10 available here http://tinyurl.com/n678usw
“Few, if any, artists are pushing the boundaries of traditional music further.” Uncut
“A master of scordatura techniques on the guitar… an exceptional lyricist… the sound of new myths and new music being hewn from folk’s stone.” The Wire
A very special night lies ahead in the intimate surroundings of The Vintage Room with Alasdair Roberts, one of the most singular, captivating & prolific folk artists of his generation. Support on the night is from the heart-meltingly wonderful Landless.
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is a musician (primarily a singer, guitarist, writer of songs and interpreter of traditional songs and ballads) based in Glasgow, Scotland. Since 1997 he has released eleven albums of his music, mostly on the Drag City label, and has worked with a wide range of musical collaborators. He has toured widely both at home in Scotland and abroad - in USA, Canada, Europe, South America and Australia - and both solo and with various bands.
His musical work mainly consists of two parallel strands: self-written song material - which can be heard on albums such as Farewell Sorrow (2003), The Amber Gatherers (2007), Spoils (2009) and A Wonder Working Stone (2013) - and interpretations of traditional songs and ballads from Scotland and beyond - which can be heard on albums such as The Crook of My Arm (2001), No Earthly Man (2005) and Too Long In This Condition (2010). In 2001 he collaborated with Will Oldham and the late Jason Molina for a project named Amalgamated Sons of Rest, with the resulting self-titled LP/CD being released on Galaxia Records. He has also released an album made in collaboration with the Scottish Gaelic singer Mairi Morrison entitled Urstan (2012), and featured on a couple of CD releases on the Delphian label in collaboration with the Scottish early music group Concerto Caledonia.
Alasdair has collaborated with artists from other disciplines such as puppeteers (Shane Connolly of Sokobauno Puppet Theatre, with whom he worked on a puppet theatre interpretation of the Scottish folk play ‘Galoshins’), film makers (including Luke Fowler, contributing a soundtrack to his film ‘All Divided Selves’) and, more recently, a poet - Robin Robertson, with whom he made the 2013 album Hirta Songs (Stone Tape Recordings), a song cycle about the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda.
In addition to these projects, Alasdair also recently became a member of the English/Scottish folk quartet The Furrow Collective, along with Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton and Emily Portman. The group’s first album At Our Next Meeting was released earlier this year on Furrow Recordings. Alasdair’s next CD/LP, a collection of self-written material, is entitled ‘Alasdair Roberts’ and will be released in January 2015 on Drag City.
www.alasdairroberts.com
www.dragcity.com
Landless
Landless are Lily Power, Meabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinead Lynch. Formed in 2013 in Drogheda and based in Dublin and Belfast, they sing unaccompanied traditional songs in four-part harmony
http://landless.bandcamp.com/
