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Saturday 3rd February 2007 Diana Jones, Beau Stapleton& Isaac Collier played an exclusive concert |
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DIANA JONES: The missing link between IRIS DEMENT and GILLIAN WELCH. "The last time I remember being
this excited by a collection of songs by a new artist
was the first time I heard the opening lines of Iris
Dement's 1992 release, Infamous Angel." MW-Sing
Out! 2006 "A resonant vintage
folk/bluegrass bender, My Remembrance haunts with
it's tales... of the human spirit. Her voice
sounds like the smoke from a hand rolled
cigarette... It's old-time, perhaps even
out-of-time, and it draws you in with it's
musky, dusky tone and emotional nuances that
glow like dying coals." Holly Gleason,
No Depression Her album has spent
months on the Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart,
including the #1 most-played song. It also
charted on the Euro-Americana Chart, where it
debuted at #3, just behind the Guy Clark and
Johnny Cash albums. Her fans were treated to
more good news in 2006 when she was named a
Kerrville New Folk winner, the most prestigious
award in the singer-songwriter world. Previous
Kerrville competitors include Nanci Griffith,
Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle. Adopted as an infant and
raised in New York, Diana left home at the age
of 15 in search of her roots. Unlike her friends,
Diana was attracted to the music of Johnny Cash
and Patsy Cline, as well as contemporary artists
Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. It wasn't’t
until she was reunited with her birth family
and the music of the Eastern Tennessee hills
some years later, that she discovered why that
music had always moved her. Diana honed her
songwriting and performing skills in the
fertile Austin music scene where she released
her first recording, "Imagine Me".
The critical acclaim and grass roots following
that sprung up around this release caught the
interest of Hamstien Publishing and Diana signed
a deal to record her second record, "The One
That Got Away". Diana returned to
the northeast seeking time to heal from the
loss of her beloved grandfather, Robert Lee Maranville,
who as a young man performed with Chet Atkins among
others. The isolation led Diana to write from
a deeper place, and after some serious wood
shedding, she emerged with some of the most
honest songs of her life.
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photo courtesy of Patti Farfan
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Beau Stapleton Will accompany Diana Jones Beau Stapleton is one of the top
musicians in Nashville, who has shared a stage
with Neil Young, The Dave Matthews Band, Badly
Drawn Boy, J.J. Cale, The Counting Crows, Guster,
& John Mayer.
Isaac Collier We're going to try something a bit different tonight and introduce you to the prodigiously-talented ISAAC COLLIER whom we think could have a big future as a classical cellist. To be sure, we are biased...Isaac, 18, lives in Farndale and we'd probably have asked him to grace our stage one day if he had only a fraction of the talent he does. But we've seen him play in other local venues - sometimes in front of people who've never been to a concert in their lives - and, ahead of the thunderous applause, you could have heard a pin drop. Isaac is really that good. We're almost tempted to mention him in the same breath as JACQUELINE DU PRE... or to suggest that, one day, when he takes the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, you will be able to tell your friends you once saw him in a village hall on the North York Moors (and they won't believe you)...or to fantasise about DIANA JONES whisking him away to Nashville to play on her next album. But we won't, just yet. We'll let you make your own mind up.. |
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