The
Story Song Scientists - MEGAN HENWOOD & FINDLAY NAPIER - UK touring dates
MARCH 2019 We have a few dates left to fill between 3 - 30 March 2019
Findlay Napier & Megan
Henwood
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We have a few dates left to fill
between 3 - 30 March 2019
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh 2016 and Megan Henwood and Findlay Napier are a few hours into an EFDSS
(English Folk Dance Song Society) run songwriting retreat. They are outside
drinking their 7th coffee of the morning. Napier's driven nine hours from
Glasgow and is a bit wobbly. Henwood's back from a month long writing trip to
Nashville and she is jet lagged and delusional. "Fancy writing a song about maths?" Napier
enquires. And so the seed for this songwriting partnership was sewn.
Their collaboration has led to the creation of songs about a hermit
known as The North Pond Phantom, WBAI host
Bob Fass' lifesaving broadcast on 6th Nov 1971, Georg Cantor's struggle with
infinity, maths and God and something about Shepherds and leaders. They are yet
to write a song about pickup trucks... or beer.
CLICK HERE for a video of MEGAN singing 'BREXIT
BLUES'
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The Story Song
Scientists
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If ever an artist called on the elements in her songwriting, it's
Megan Henwood. The distinguished English singer-songwriter is far too
self-deprecating to describe herself as a force of nature, but her third album
'River' reaffirms her unique ability to
create roots music of beguiling purity from what's around her.
One of the finest songwriters and storytellers of the contemporary
Scottish folk scene Findlay Napier is an insurgent talent that comes on like a
Caledonian Loudon Wainwright. Distilled to artful acoustic guitar and Napier's
remarkable voice his most recent album 'Glasgow' captures the timeless essence of one
of the world's great cities.
CLICK HERE for a video of Findlay's Trio singing 'COD LIVER
OIL & ORANGE JUICE
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Findlay Napier & Megan
Henwood
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MEGAN HENWOOD PRESS:
"Henwood's debut announced her as a
promising new voice on the contemporary English folk scene; 'Head Heart Hand'
confirms her as one of its finest exponents"- Folk Radio UK
"A powerful set of songs boasting the
finest lyrics this reviewer has heard in a while" - Album of the Week, Sunday Express
"Raw nerves are constantly prodded
-she has moved far beyond (Folk's) parameters into a world where anything is
possible" - R2 Magazine
"She hones her songs so beautifully
and the production is superbly judged"
- Country Music People: Americana
FINDLAY NAPIER PRESS:
"...one of the finest songwriters and
storytellers of the contemporary Scottish folk scene." - Folk Radio UK
"After his debut release V.I.P.: Very Interesting Persons I wondered
how he could possibly surpass such a start, with 'Glasgow' the master craftsman
just gets better" - FATEA
Magazine
"Napier's epically muscular, grittily
raw yet brilliantly nuanced voice, to both comic and emotive effect, allies with
some of the most fabulous (literally and figuratively) original songs that
anyone's writing today." - Folk Radio UK:
Live Review
CLICK HERE for a video of MEGAN singing
'CHEMICALS'
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Megan
Henwood
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LAST CALL FOR SOME FREE DATES IN
MARCH 2019:
GAIL COOKE
LAUGHING DOG MUSIC
gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk
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