Give me a reason
By daithi ~ September 9th, 2008. Filed under: Music.
New Yorker Clare Muldaur and (most of) her merry band of comrades, collectively Clare & The Reasons, are on tour. They are a genre-jumping group, with a jazz-ish sound, an ever-changing cast of instruments and an album with some critical buzz, The Movie. They’re working their way across the UK and Ireland, before a longer spell “on the continent” through the autumn. Connected with this, they’ve been picked up by a couple of BBC shows, notably Radio 4’s Loose Ends (this month) and BBC 2’s Culture Show (last month); this clip (alternative link) is taken from the latter, taking on an 80s classic:
Irish fans get a twist on the deal as they form part of an event of some sort with the quirky, talented and engaging Duke Special in a Fringe Festival event tomorrow (Wednesday) night.
