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

Held at the landmark Theater! Theatre! building: 3430 SE Belmont, Portland OR
Sunday November 19th, 8:00 - 10:00 pm
Advance tickets $7 / $8 at the door.

Buy $7 advance tickets here
with Credit Card or PayPal:

     
 
In the suitably intimate setting of Theater! Theatre!'s Arena stage, Birch Book will present new material found on the upcoming album 'Fortune and Folly' (in stores Nov 28). Advance copies of album will be available at the event.
With featured guest performances by Ilyas Ahmed and Kathrine Heilesen.
  
 
 

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, 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 while channeling a personable, self-attuned writing style.

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

 
 

ILYAS AHMED

Pakistani born guitarist Ilyas Ahmed unravels a beautifully eternal, introspective fingerstyle approach which evokes searching, yearning resonances within a raga-like process of development.

Complex stylings converge upon flames of chords, creatively interweaving various modes and intensities within single pieces.
       
  "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..."