Posts Tagged ‘harry smith night’
Video: When that great ship went down – Gavin Friday and Mary Margaret O’Hara
Gavin Friday, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Eric Mingus performing When that great ship went down at the Harry Smith Night in New York, November 1999
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There will be another Hal Willner organised ‘Harry Smith Project’ on November 11 & 12 at St. Ann’s Church (157 Montague St) in Brooklyn. Gavin will play both these dates.…
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On July 2, Gavin and Maurice performed two songs at Hal Willner’s Harry Smith Project (Meltdown Festival). ‘Fatal Flower Garden’ was orginally performed by Nelstone’s Hawaiians in 1929. The second…
Read MoreHarry Smith’s Project Meltdown; Royal Festival Hall, London: Star collective pays homage to folk collector
WHO IS Harry Smith, and why would Bryan Ferry, Beth Orton, Nick Cave and others want to pay tribute to him? The films shown at the start of the evening…
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Maurice and Gavin are doing a one off, 3 song performance of songs from the Harry Smith archive of American folk ballads as part of the Nick Cave organised Meltdown…
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