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String of Pearls, with Rhiannon Giddens and Laurelyn Dossett from Laurelyn Dossett on Vimeo.
We filmed this in my backyard on one of those warmer fall nights in North Carolina. You can still hear the cicadas in the background.
Special thanks to Harvey Robinson and Carolyn deBerry who came over for some gumbo that night, and brought their cameras and talent (psst … save the monkeywhale).
And please, join us for the last show of 2011 in New York City. Gather your friends and family and join us.
Saturday, December 17 in New York, NY
Roots/Americana Holiday Concert at the Winery with Laurelyn, Rhiannon, Joe, Mike and Jason for one night only.
New York, NY
citywinery.com
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Photo by Justin Catanoso
“Here was no bland, generic ‘happy holidays’ observance, but a full-throated celebration of the upcoming Christmas season.” Paul D. Williams
CVNC reviews “A Carolina Christmas” with “The Gathering” debut.
Album reviews are in for “The Gathering” recording of the string band featuring myself, Rhiannon, Joe, Mike, and Jason. And they’ve all got me seeing stars.
Purchase “The Gathering” online
“It’s what the holidays were before shopping and Irving Berlin.”
Wall Street Journal
“They bring a breath of fresh, pine-scented air to an intensely crowded field.”
3 stars
Los Angeles Times
“A goosebump inducing ‘O Holy Night,’ stripped down to just standup bass and voice, is alone worth the price, but this classy offering is a much needed alternative to the typically overwrought fare that clogs the season’s racks.”
4 stars
American Songwriter Magazine
“It’s a fresh approach to wintry music, with mountain-music instrumentation and crystalline harmonies.”
4 1/2 stars
San Antonio Express News
“Collections of Appalachian holiday tunes have come along before, but one of the finest is now ‘The Gathering,’”
4 1/2 stars
Chicago Sun-Times
Jason Sypher and Rhiannon Gidden’s “O Holy Night” featured in USA Today’s Holiday Playlist
USA Today
“This sublime folk quintet out of Raleigh, N.C., have created a holiday gem …’The Gathering’ is a must-hear for stringband aficionados.”
Press Citizen
“If it’s one and done, this quintet made it count for this Yuletide and for Yuletides yet to come.”
The Bluegrass Special
“Perfect with a glass of bourbon.”
Jazz Wax
From a photoshoot with the NC Symphony.
I am laughing because the North Carolina Symphony conductor, Grant Llewellyn, has just joked that I am about to stand there and sing The Gathering with the orchestra for our first rehearsal.
He had the last laugh, he wasn’t joking!
It’s really happening. And tickets are going fast. So please, if you plan to come, order your tickets now. There will be sniffles and laughter, predominately.
Symphony world premier of “The Gathering: A Winter’s Tale in Six Songs” November 25 and 26.
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Triad Stage performance of music from Beautiful Star and The Gathering, featuring The Gathering string band December 6 at 8 pm.
Tickets available online.
“Welcome departure from the usual acoustic holiday fare, ‘The Gathering’ brings together several luminaries from the bluegrass and Appalachian folk worlds—including Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Laurelyn Dossett of Polecat Creek and Mike Compton of the Nashville Bluegrass Band—for a set of Dossett-penned originals and underplayed American hymns like ‘I Wonder As I Wander’ and ‘Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn.’ Dossett’s light-hearted ‘Redbird,’ a finely detailed paean to a holiday family gathering, is one of many highlights, as is Compton’s gorgeously intricate take on the Bill Monroe instrumental, ‘Old Ebenezer Scrooge.’”
From my front porch, I can almost see the downtown pharmacy where William Sydney Porter (pen name, O. Henry) worked at his Uncle’s drug store.
The writer is among the most read authors in the world, after Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe. Among his quotes:
“There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”
This month the new arts magazine in the Piedmont – named after the Greensboro-born writer – featured a story on my new project, “The Gathering: A Winter’s Tale in Six Songs.”
If you see the free magazine around town, please pick up a copy. It’s put together by a talented group of writers, designers, and photographers in the Piedmont. It’s also a perfect sized-magazine; stays steady on your lap with a cup of coffee.
Read the article online, or pick up a copy around O. Henry’s hometown.
