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Alison Ferrier
ALISON FERRIER & BAND (RES)
+ TRACY MCNEIL (SOLO)
WEDNESDAY 26TH FEBRUARY
FREE ENTRY
ALSION FERRIER 9:30PM-10:30PM
TRACY MCNEIL 8:30PM-9:10PM
Full of dreamily melodic waltzes, heartsick ballads and haunted blues, evocative of the timeless, romantic music of years gone by.
Stepping from Country duo The Wayward Fancies and 4-piece band The Hallrunners, Ali Ferrier releases her debut solo album Sugar Baby on April 14th 2012. You can find her playing live and in person, usually accompanied by Double Bass player Tim Murphy (the pair also play together in Sean MacMahon's Western Union) Justin Bernascone on electric guitar and Cat Canteri on drums and harmonies.
“Ali Ferrier’s songs could easily fall into the hands of people who would recognize their incredible charm, wisdom and grace but who then might try and flatten their glory with ‘lush this’ and ‘smooth that’ in some expensive recording facility that provides catering, plush couches and table tennis. Then we, the listening public, would have to wait ten years or so for the great, archived, dusted off, original version of the album to come out, containing these mighty and tender, harrowing and beautiful songs, superbly performed and captured.” Charles Jenkins
Tracy McNeil
After the success of her acclaimed sophomore album Fire From Burning in 2011, Tracy McNeil returns in early 2014 with her much anticipated follow-up LP, Nobody Ever Leaves. It’s a fitting title for a Canadian singer-songwriter who’s been happily living in Melbourne Australia for the past seven years. Although McNeil’s decision to stay in Australia has never been without struggle – which luckily tends to make for some good songwriting. Her latest single from the new LP is called Tooth To A String – it’s lush and loud and heavily steeped in pop sensibility, signaling an exciting departure from McNeil’s previous, more rootsy releases. Following on from the first single Wildcats, this new offering travels along the same vein but the sound has a delightfully rougher edge. Exploring the frayed boundaries of a failing relationship – the characters in the song never quite make it out, but remain tumbling around inside a self-inflicted endless cycle.
