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Kate Fagan
Indie / Akustik / Folk

Diamond Wheel



Sydney
Avustralya

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Son Giriş:  25.11.2009
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   İletişim | Kate Fagan

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   Kate Fagan: Genel Bilgi
Üyelik Tarihi10.02.2007
Grup Web Sitesihttp://katefagan.com
Etkilendikleri ...this old world & all its things like rivers or birds or clouds or today the Carter Family Ruby Hunter Anne Briggs Nick Drake Lucinda Williams Maria Callas The Band Karen Dalton Natalie Merchant Bob Dylan chapter four of Chronicles Elizabeth Cotten Nick Cave Joni Mitchell Will Oldham Palace Neil Young Dead Man Gillian Welch Kate & Anna McGarrigle Richard Thompson Nic Jones Peggy Seeger Tom Waits Sam Beam Festival Express Lloyd Cole Davy Graham Ali Farka Toure & Radio Mali JSBach CSNY Odetta Pete Seeger Chrissie Hynde Emmy Lou Harris Fred Neil George Oppen Jody Stecher Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music Six Organs of Admittance Ry Cooder Treachery Head autumn anywhere Roscoe Holcomb Dock Boggs a hundred banjos Townes Van Zandt Bill Callahan Linda Ronstadt Emily Dickinson Pete Minter & Empty Texas killdeer Kathmandu Warumpi Band tea Wong Ka Wai Steve Earle Arkadii Dragomoschenko parkour & the art of displacement The Last Poets Terry Riley Kelly Joe Phelps Johnny Cash Bill Monroe Janis Joplin Reckoning Led Zeppelin Morning of the Earth Gram Parsons Louvin Brothers Kings of the Wild Frontier Misery is a Butterfly Ralph Stanley Calexico PJ Harvey Martin Carthy Rosalie Gascoigne Mark Rothko mountains pianolas celadon green and that crazy feel when the first drops of a late afternoon storm hit the dust...

Neye Benziyor?"Kate's music hovers between country and folk (think Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter) and her lyrics are lucid, emotionally persuasive and evocative. Her palette of musical styles ranges from touching ballads such as Highway of Rainbows and through the backwoods folkiness of One More Drive and Dollar Bills and Diamond Towns to songs such as Roll You Sweet Rain, which sounds as though it is part of some ancient folk tradition. And, well, Clear Water sounds like a song Joni Mitchell forgot to add to one of her early albums. Seriously, Diamond Wheel is that good. Welcome to a major new Australian talent."
Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald

"Kate Fagan has managed to discover a niche somewhere between older folk forms and a more impressionistic poetic language that sits musically and lyrically somewhere between Lucy Kaplansky, Natalie Merchant, Suzanne Vega and early Joni Mitchell."
Country Update

"Diamond Wheel compares favourably to the work of fellow indie roots singer-songwriters Natalie Merchant and Gillian Welch."
Drum Media

"The songs have real tunes with subtle melodic hooks and lyrics full of evocative imagery, all sung with that rare skill of the great folk singer of being totally involved in the song."
Canberra Times

"Kate Fagan will be worth following for the next decade or two."
Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald


Diamond Wheel reviewed by Peggy Seeger

What a treat, an album made by a poet who is a musician - or alternatively a musician who is a poet. Steeped in folk music all her life, Kate Fagan is coming into her own on her first album, Diamond Wheel. Her high range is now delicate now commanding, her low range glowing and precise. She is musically literate and the songs are very singable, the accompaniments excellent. The melodies are memorable and varied. She combines her education in literature with her knowledge of folksong, giving not only a solidity but a fanciful creativity that makes you listen to every line:

There's a story for every road / And a riddle for every rhyme / Every high mountain once was a cold sea, / Shall I go your way or will you go mine?

The texts are sometimes straightforward, sometimes almost mystical. Kate the Poet expects you to fill in the holes in the logic that lead you from the beginning to the end of the song. Kate the Musician provides variety: one or two songs are bleak and harsh (O Janey Janey), others begin solo and draw you in as the harmonies develop. Then there's the plain old passionate love song: 'Love me now, love me now'... 'my door is open' - and she wants the key to yours. A thoroughly adult album, where the music speaks for itself and the singer is content to facilitate. These songs have been carefully crafted - no filler lines or easy get-out endless repetitions of the same words. The album held me from beginning to end. Only twelve tracks - and then you put track 1 on again and go with her down her 'highway of rainbows'.

Peggy Seeger
Asheville, NC

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Kate’s session times, Sydney Opera House 9th July: 1pm, 4pm and 8pm  (devamı)

Kate to perform at Sydney Opera House for Biennale of Sydney  (devamı)

SORRY: Vanguard show rescheduled after fire  (devamı)

Australian Flatpicking Champ: Robbie Long  (devamı)

’Welcome to a major new Australian talent...’ Bruce Elder, SMH  (devamı)

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'SOLO IN A DUET? THINK OF IT AS POETRY'
by Bernard Zuel
24th March 2007, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

To quote 'Roll You Sweet Rain', a song on her impressive debut album, you could say Kate Fagan is "foolish and reckless" for choosing the career paths of poetry and folk music; both are almost guaranteed to leave her penniless. What was she thinking?

"I don't think I was thinking at all; I was feeling," laughs Fagan. "I've always had a real love of both sound and language and I've worked very much in both areas. Sometimes I feel like words and language have been my work but music is my breath; they are pretty hard to deny. And, yes, it is foolish, and that's part of it, you know. Living is foolish.''

Fagan, a member for most of her life of her family's band, The Fagans, with her parents and brother, is also an internationally published poet with two collections and a concurrent job editing an American journal of innovative poetry. Reviewing one of her poetry collections, one critic said: "Silence and nothingness mingle with the world, with otherness, with the bodies of lovers, to produce complex and engaging fugues.''

Last year Fagan self-released her first solo album, Diamond Wheel , which easily and attractively blended country and blues into the folk. It won her not just praise but the National Film & Sound Archive National Folk Recording Award for best folk album, which in turn helped secure national distribution for a reissued, repackaged version of that album.

Clearly there's genuine talent here, in both disciplines, and Fagan doesn't see the need to choose one over the other.

"Those things kind of took hold, they're just responding to the state of being alive,'' she says. "In my view we get one crack at life and there are many different ways you can navigate what being is about, and for me those two came up pretty early in my life and I've been playing some kind of duet, or maybe just a roulette, with both of them."

It's easy to see from her album and her published poetry that the two disciplines complement each other. "To me they are extensions of the same thing,'' Fagan says. "One of the things that attracted me so much to folk music in all of its incarnations is its responsivity to lyric: it's a lyrical form. And poetry and folk are really close friends, there is a lot of conversation between them. Getting that collision of feeling and thought and sound and words really interests me. [Poetry and music] are not that different.''

She mentioned earlier that both forms "took hold'' early in her life. Just how early? "Probably very early. I was, I guess, fortunate in the sense that there was a lot of music and poetry in the family I grew up in, so I had some interesting coordinates for starting out on that adventure. It was never presented to me as a kid as anything spectacular or unusual, it was always completely OK to express yourself in that manner. It's what we did.

"My brother and I started performing with my family as really young kids. We would be sitting in the car on the way to a gig and we would be chiming in extra harmonies, and then we just started doing that on stage, probably when I was eight or nine. I remember at the same time I was really interested in books and words, and from about five or six I started to make little books, drawing and writing stories. Something was going on.''

Something was going on, and it stuck with her. "That experience of performing as a family has shaped me as a performer, but also shaped a sense of adventure and travel, and that it's OK to travel to the end of the earth for a great gig if necessary. Or just to follow a particular inclination, no matter how wild it is.''


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Lutz Lagemann

Lutz Lagemann



16 Kas 2009 23:23

Dear Kate, thank you so much for the
add. I first listened to you singing harmony on Lucy Thorne’s myspace site. Since then
I’m your fan. Our new CD „Slow Horses“ was released November 14th, available
via CD Baby & ITunes. Country & Americana from Germany. Check it out
now! Our current single "Take me back to Graceland" is very often played by Australian radio stations.



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Gregory

Gregory Lea



16 Kas 2009 17:13


Check out my page
http://www.doulike.us/photos/7100840.html?b=4&w=46




Let me know if you like me YES or NO
http://www.doulike.us/photos/7100840.html?b=4&w=46

Ruby Jane

Ruby Jane



14 Kas 2009 17:22

Ruby Jane and Mark O'Connor: Virtuosos of the American Fiddle: http://www.poptech.org/blog/mark_oconnor_and_ruby_jane_smith_virtuosos_of_american_fiddle

Ruby Jane Article in New York Times!!
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/who-do-these-guys-think-they-are/
AND
Check out the new pictures and video! Let me know what you think!
Ruby Jane
After Sunset

After Sunset



13 Eki 2009 12:52

Hi Kate,

Thank you so much for the friendship.
Have a great week.
Greetings from Germany

Klaus
Ash (TOUR BUILDING) Mandrake

Ash (TOUR BUILDING) Mandrake



12 Eki 2009 16:46

Enjoying your site.

Playing @ The Royal Oak (Windsor Bridge Bath)
on Fri 23rd Oct 2009
This is to let you know what's in store:



Hope you enjoy it.
Ash :o)
Staircase Wit

Staircase Wit



11 Eki 2009 20:09

Hey Kate!

thanx for the friendship!

love your music

cheers

Fabone
Andy Nicholls

Andy Nicholls



11 Eki 2009 11:03

I love ya music Kate, Cheers for add.
Drop by sometime and let me know what ya think of my page.
Cheers Andy 
Fred McNeill

Fred McNeill



10 Eki 2009 23:14

Thanks Kate for add kool music '
drop by check out my writing on blogs shine on ' Fred xox




 

David Franks: Walkabouts Verse

David Franks: Walkabouts Verse



4 Eki 2009 15:58

After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace... 

Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
(please see my blog): 
TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001 

Where traditions are not so rare; 
    Sea, country and works scent the air; 
A multitude of monuments, 
    Planted tubs and patterned pavements. 

The longish pedestrian malls; 
    The remnants of defensive walls; 
Historic buildings are a gauge 
    Of the respect for heritage. 

Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; 
    Estuaries guarded by shields; 
Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; 
    Romantic-ruin go-betweens. 

Rivers in parts licked by trees, 
    Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, 
And crossed by practical delights - 
    Varied spans, forming pleasing sights. 

Fine churches headed at Durham; 
    Football kits ad infinitum; 
Kept castles - one for study; 
    Masonry behind masonry. 

And, with moulding-works out that way, 
It’s somewhere for a longer stay..? 

(C) David Franks 2003
Carl Corbett

Carl Corbett



26 Eyl 2009 10:23

Hi Kate
Peace and love from sunny Manchester, England.
Gregory

Gregory Lea



14 Eyl 2009 19:09

Thanks for the add; have a great 2009.
Cilla Jane

Cilla Jane



31 Ağu 2009 03:04



Ruby Jane

Ruby Jane



4 Ağu 2009 03:16




Hello! New pics posted!

and Im putting up some new video today too!
Share love everybody!
-Ruby Jane
Cilla Jane

Cilla Jane



27 Tem 2009 06:57

Darren Waller .... vocalist and blues harmonica

Darren waller



18 Tem 2009 19:49

Dropping by to say HI ! love n respect Darren xxx
Ruby Jane

Ruby Jane



23 Haz 2009 23:21

Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too!
Ruby Jane
David Franks: Walkabouts Verse

David Franks: Walkabouts Verse



19 Haz 2009 18:29

(Hi: enjoyed my visit.) 

After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace... 

Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
(please see my blog): 
WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN 

Once drove an old sedan, up north, 
From a place in Sydney to Cairns; 
Then to Kuranda I went forth, 
By train, to look without set plans.

I browsed through the trendy market, 
With fresh fruits of tropical kind; 
Walked to the creek through lush thicket - 
Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.

I dined in a scenic cafe; 
Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, 
Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, 
You go walkabout with your pen.” 

Request or question, I don’t know -
Assured voices, elderly men.
That’s now several years ago, 
And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.

(C) David Franks 2003
adam fagan

adam fagan
Online!


17 Haz 2009 06:18

thank you kate, really great voice you have and your musics cool! :)
Manger

Manger



15 Haz 2009 00:21

Don't forget now ...

Manger + Emma Davis + Nina Stamell this Thursday at the Sando!

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oxxxx
Ian Gothe

Ian Gothe



10 Haz 2009 06:40

Thanks for the friendship Kate! Love your voice!

Cheers,
Ian
alone

alone



8 Haz 2009 18:39

Hey Kate!!! Thank u for being my friend!!!!
xo
Memo Scarletto

Memo Scarletto



8 Haz 2009 16:56

Hello from the amazing windy plains just outside Calgary , Alberta
 Wonderful sites and sounds in your space.Many discoveries made at your space, very nice indeed to be Space m8s.

In a act of Kindness endorphin levels are elevated in the Giver, the Receiver and the Observer, how nice is that.

"do not seek happiness .. but .. do rid your self of unhappiness = Zero Negative thoughts"

"Share knowledge ,it is a way to achieve immortality"

InNeR PeAcE ,LoVe and JoY ..mO

Electronica side of things at
www.myspace.com/shaubyaella

Please vist our good friend at
www.seasidepeddler.ca
Bathhurst NB
Roselands

Roselands



8 Haz 2009 07:51

Thanks
The Certifiables

The Certifiables



8 Haz 2009 05:12

I can only squeeze one name on the door (see GUESTS ARE ADVISED... which is our version of 'influences' on our myspace site).
However, please do come along to one of our thirteen $10 Thursday The Certifiables gigs as we work a residency at The St. Kilda Bowling Club, Melbourne, Australia (some profits flowing to Sacred Heart Mission) from Sept 3 2009 to Nov 26 2009.

faithfully,

Hugh Tolhurst
The Certifiables
waiting for guinness

waiting for guinness



31 May 2009 08:31

Come Down for last show til December. New Songs, NEW VENUE, New Guitarist, New Shoes!!
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