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EMILY BARKER and The Red Clay Halo + special guest Danny Schmidt + Eoin O’Ruainigh

Fri 1st May 2009

The Local presents
EMILY BARKER and The Red Clay Halo
+ special guest Danny Schmidt
+ Eoin O'Ruainigh

7.30 Doors
8.00 Eoin O'Ruainigh (30)
8.45 Danny Schmidt (30)
9.30 Emily Barker (60)

£6 at WeGotTickets
£8 door

Emily Barker returns from a huge UK tour, many sell our shows, a five star review in the Times, and with Danny Schmidt in support. An excellent lineup, if we do say so ourselves.

Emily Barker is a singer-songwriter hailing from the quiet town of Bridgetown, Western Australia. Emily first entered the UK music scene via the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2002 where she appeared with guitarist Rob Jackson (Boo Hewerdine's guitarist). The success of this performance, lead them to form a band called the-low-country of which Emily was the songwriter and front person. They released two albums, played numerous Alt-country venues and festivals, and enjoyed several plays on John Peel's show.

Now having gone solo and setting up her own band the Red Clay Halo, Emily has a growing reputation as one of new country/americanas brightest new talents.

'incredible voice …surpasses any critical superlative' - Americana UK

'one of those talents that comes along once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.' - Maverick

'echoes of Lucinda Williams' rasp and Martha Wainwright's cutesy purr' – Word

'sharply observed, original songs …adventurously embellished by gypsy flourishes and haunting desert echoes that'd be at home on a Calexico album' – Uncut

'a gorgeous, sincere voice that grabs you and won't let go' – The Sun

'her fellow Australians The Waifs are an obvious comparison, but perhaps a more relevant name is that of Laura Veirs - with All Love Knows and particularly Disappear sounding a lot like the American's earlier work' – Musicomh.com

'music that's going to take you away from the scummy smog filled streets and leave you in a warm forest dappled with green light shining through the leaves of sycamores and ancient oak' – Unpeeled.net

'simultaneously haunting, relaxing and uplifting… A hugely enjoyable album that will doubtless translate just as well in a live setting.' 7/10 - The Music Magazine

'Nobody sounds quite like them, and there are moments of transcendence here (on 'Nostalgia and 'All Love Knows' in particular) when everything is just so...perfect that it's all too much and a lump appears in the throat. An album of quiet power.' **** Rock 'n' Reel

'another lovelorn excursion into spooked Americana and old school backwoods trad folk that will conjure thoughts of Gillian Welch, Laura Veirs, Be Good Tanyas and, on Breath especially, the golden age of Emmylou.' Netrhythms.co.uk

'prepare to melt - these are campfire lullabies sent down from the Gods.' 7/10 stars -Teletext

'Astoundingly good.' Morning Star

'The country/folk hybrids here, wash over the listener, effortlessly warm and cosy, with the band opting for a minimalist approach that really allows the music to grow.' Subba-Culture

Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt is a writer's writer, with a lyrical depth drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and Dave Carter. Upon winning the prestigious Kerrville New Folk award in 2007, Sing Out Magazine tagged Schmidt "the best new songwriter we've heard in 15 years." Just one man sitting alone on stage with his acoustic guitar and his poetry, in the timeless troubadour tradition, his musical influences draw from deeply-rooted Appalachian mountain gospel to haunted English balladry, from syncopated Piedmont country blues to vagabond 60's protest folk-stumpery. But it all boils down to just great songwriting, in a singular style all his own. Not to be missed.

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