Saturday 10 June 2023, 8pm
Always a pleasure to welcome back the one and only Diane Cluck, a singer-songwriter who leans on classical piano training in approaching guitar, dance as an inspiration for rediscovering piano, and voice as a rhythm instrument and paintbrush. She's currently at work on House Tears, her follow-up album to 2020's Common Wealth.
“Bell-clear and hotly austere, her lithe, dynamic voice hasn’t much kin. Categorizing her as folk is simplistic. (Cluck) emanates something humble but mythic. Appalachia or ancient Athens?” – Time Out New York
DIANE CLUCK a singer-songwriter of intuitive folk music based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She employs singing as a healing, textural experience in which audiences may wander, ponder, or simply be. Her vocal style has been noted for its clipped, glottal beauty, and described by NPR as "an unlikely mix of Aaron Neville, the Baka people, and Joni Mitchell--unaffected yet unusual". She accompanies herself on various instruments including guitar, piano, harmonium, zither, and a copper pipe instrument she built by hand. She contributed to New York's burgeoning Antifolk scene in the early 2000s; since then singer-songwriters Laura Marling, Florence Welch (of Florence And The Machine), and Sharon Van Etten have cited Diane's work as influential.
Johanna Warren is an acclaimed American songwriter currently living in rural Wales. She has released six solo albums to date, and is currently workshopping a new musical adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae co-written with Landon Marcus. Also a Reiki master and herbalist, she embarked on her extensive “Plant Medicine Tour” in 2018, playing 70+ shows around the US and partnering with local herbalists and regenerative farmers in every place to share their work with their communities.
Links:
www.johannawarren.com
IG @johahahanna
