Deftly mines forth 24-karat nuggets that hark back to some of America?s deepest musical roots and can simultaneously set your toes-a-tappin? and heart-a-breakin?.
Contemporary Classical Music: ambient, meditative and introspective, drawing on minimalism, world music and contemporary pop. Piano tunes often based on pop-like chord progressions.
Since forming in 1998 under the name Skarlet O'Hara, and after developing a unique style of acoustic rock and funk, a strong following has been steadily building. After playing various open mics for only a few short months, Skarlet O'Hara received local recognition when the Toronto-based company, Friends in the City, selected them as winners of the "Undiscovered - Out Loud" showcase in December, 1998.
Skarlet O'Hara is: Marnie Pettle - Voice, guitarz Heather Kirby - Guitarz Jenny Casarella - Drumz Mary Plasterer - Bass
As featured on LETTERMAN and NPR. Waking Hour takes listeners on an emotional ride through gentle piano ballads to multi-layered productions with lush landscapes.
Fans of Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann & Patty Griffin will appreciate the novel's worth of emotion and storytelling in each cinematic track. You'll make new friends in every song, and you'll want to invite them in over and over again.
simple, bittersweet, earthbound stories, refracted through the panoramic scope of the heavens. Soaked in luxuriant delay, slide and strum, her songs strike a perfect balance between melancholy and hopeful
Free-folk, art-folk, dark-folk-made in basements and motels: Amy Rude twitters and unfurls folky melodies inspired by old guitars, desperate landscapes and ancestral ruminations. Each song and each album is lovingly handmade and intimate.
Magical realism involving pickles, death penalties and hot baths... influenced by the anti folkers, the punkers, tom waits, bjork, mozart, and many others... a secret let loose.