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Erin McKeown with Trina Hamlin
Thursday Oct 29, 2009 8:30 PM
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Trina Hamlin | 8:30 PM
 Trina Hamlin combines gentle understanding with raw emotion in a way that is, quite simply, captivating from the first note.
With a rich, powerful voice, Hamlin reveals a rare confluence of Midwestern innocence, contemplative focus, and raw passion while adding a disarmingly sharp wit in her stage banter. She seamlessly moves from guitar to piano with self accompaniment on harmonica leaving many who have seen her wondering what she can't do.
Regarded as one of the best harmonica players around, she presents a driving, sensuous rhythm in her performance reawakening audiences to the art of the instrument. In the current climate of "sounds like" artists and "heard it before" lyrics, Trina offers an intelligent and refreshing musical experience. Her unique combination of ballads, folk-rock and blues has earned her a steady national following. Trina tours full-time throughout the US and Europe. Additionally, she is a much sought after harmonica player and percussionist, accompanying numerous nationally recognized singer/songwriters in the studio and live on stage.
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Erin McKeown | 9:30 PM
 Hundreds Of Lions
Ten years into a dynamic career marked by 7 LPs, 2 EPs and a live concert album, Erin McKeown delivers Hundreds of Lions, her first collection of original songs since 2005’s We Will Become Like Birds.
Although Erin started writing songs while still in high school in hometown Fredericksburg, Virginia, she really began earning her chops while attending Brown University, releasing two albums before graduation and gigging on weekends whenever and wherever possible. She hasn’t slowed down, famously averaging 200 live shows a year. As a multi-instrumentalist, Erin’s become in demand as a session player, recording vocals, piano, bass lines and of course guitar tracks for other artists’ records all while steadily working material that became Hundreds of Lions.
At the center of the album, the song “The Lions” brims with bright piano, cathedral spire atmosphere and traces of carnival-noir pop as Erin sings, “There’s a risk, there’s a twist, in anything worth doing,” with a voice clear and strong as glass ribbon.
Indeed, the whole Hundreds of Lions project—from the experimental production techniques to the decision to record independently, without label support--is a risk, with a twist that finds Erin collaborating with Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records.
It’s an alliance that has been in the stars a long time, as Erin and Ani’s creative paths have crisscrossed ever since Ani first heard Distillation—the only other album Erin recorded independently--and invited Erin on tour back in 1999. In the decade since, Erin’s built a catalogue and career that influences a whole new set of songwriters in the way Ani’s music first inspired Erin.
The decision to create Hundreds of Lions independently allowed Erin to spend an unprecedented, luxurious amount of time nurturing new songs to life. Some simmered for three years as Erin traipsed through the American songbook with 2007’s Sing You Sinners and the live recording, Lafayette, released later that same year. Independence also gave producer (and longtime musical partner) Sam Kassirer the freedom to produce his vision of a watershed, modern Erin McKeown album, with Erin’s voice as its center.
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