This newsletter was originally sent to my mailing list 2/17/20 and looked like this: https://mailchi.mp/9cbb9cd47599/pacific-nw-concerts-and-workshops Here it is in repost: Wait, That’s Not Actually the Pacific Northwest, 02/16/20 Good Day to everybody on the west coast, and Good Evening to my contemporaries on Eastern Time, and Good Night, I suppose, to my friends in the UK …
I’ve been lucky to get to play a bunch of great shows with the Session Americana guys this year. I’m looking forward to a bunch more in the coming one. Here’s a video of us playing “This Ragged World We Spanned” on a farm in Ipswich, MA, produced by Jason Elon Goodman and Salt Stage Presents. This …
On February 19th, at a sold-out awards show in London’s historic Royal Albert Hall, Anais and Jefferson won a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for “Willie of Winsbury,” the opening track of their 2013 release Child Ballads
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/21/255266029/the-top-10-folk-and-americana-albums-of-2013 Child Ballads by Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer is named one of the top-10 Folk and Americana releases of 2013 by NPR music.
Hey, it’s with gratitude and humility we announce that Child Ballads has been nominated for two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: Best Album, and Best Traditional Track “Willie Of Winsbury.” So happy to be included among our friends and fellow nominees. Best wishes and luck to everyone!
Here’s a link to Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer live on BB2 The Folk Show with host Mark Radcliff. Date: 2/27/2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015q45y
“Through Mitchell and Hamer, these characters, made flat by design and even more by time, spring into full dimension, ache and grieve and flirt, live and die and get born again.” Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads | Album Reviews | Pitchfork.
In the spring of 2012, bouzouki player, guitarist, and singer Eamon O’Leary and I recorded ten tracks in our apartments on the Lower East Side, in Park Slope, and in a studio space in Dumbo, seven floors up, right beside the Manhattan bridge. We had to wait for the trains to rumble by before we …
The Murphy Beds – Eamon O’Leary and Jefferson Hamer – record now available on bandcamp Read More »
The Murphy Beds, featuring Eamon O’Leary and Jefferson Hamer, are playing some shows in October to celebrate the recording and imminent release of their new self-titled album.
Please help support Jefferson and Tashina’s new album with a $20 pre-order!