Birch Book CD release Performance:
'Fortune & Folly - Sundry Rues and Wonders of a Wayward Wanderer'

Held at the Conjuring Room, located in the industrial district of the Emerald City right next door to the old Sears Tower at 2203 Utah Street South [take Holgate].

November 18th, 8:30 pm

www.myspace.com/conjuringroom

         
Birch Book/In Gowan Ring celebrate the release of their new album 'Fortune & Folly' with an intimate performance at The Conjuring Room with guest Kathrine Heilesen from Denmark.
('Fortune & Folly' in stores November 28th - advance copies available at performance.)
         
 

Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distill the introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning 'the Bitter and the Bliss' of The Road Less Traveled.

Fortune & Folly blends elements of idiosyncratic folk-pop and outcast-country with brooding layers of sound and sense, yielding a spectral ethereality in a captivating chiaroscuro thick with the visionary allusions of a haunted wanderer bent upon a mythic path…

 


 

BIRCH BOOK /
IN GOWAN RING

As poet, pilgrim, progenitor of wyrd-folk and maestro of Birch Book (and formerly In Gowan Ring), B'ee has developed a homespun sonic tapestry with peculiar richness of vision; recording over ten full length albums and performing throughout North America & Europe amidst a dozen years against the grain.

Variously labeled 'Wyrd', 'Psychedelic' or 'Avant Folk', Birch Book extend roots into poetic-folk traditions cultivating an inimitable, self-attuned writing style that prefigured the 'New-Psyche-Folk' movement.

Performances and recordings utilize many of B'ee's self-made instruments including the recently constructed 'lyre-guitar' to be featured this evening.

www.BirchBook.com - more press photos here

KATHRINE HEILSEN

Hailing from Denmark, Kathrine Heilesen plays a divine mix of old Nordic Folk, medieval and experimental music; variously accompanying herself on harp, guitar, bodhran, davul, & viola.

A robust and windswept traveler, Kathrine brings Scandinavian legends and ballads in her native tongue.

www.sistermoon.dk

 

       
  "With my Staff and One Good Eye
I may Laugh and I may Cry...

 

The Road is Wide, the Passage Free
The Trip Goes On and On Endlessly..."