RYAN FRANCESCONI

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"One of the most awe-inspiring musicians I’ve known … This is solo music that sounds like an ensemble ... it is nearly impossible to believe he’s picking those strings with one hand”
Joanna Newsom

Seattle-based RYAN FRANCESCONI's stock has soared of late as the main man on Joanna Newsom’s remarkable triple album “Have One On Me”. He arranged and played all over that stunning opus, as well as figuring centrally in its live incarnation and the Ys Street Band of Newsom’s previous record. But Francesconi does his own thing too: he is an incredible composer for acoustic guitar, and a recent London show with James Blackshaw confirmed he has that special talent for sitting down and spellbinding any given room with just a six-string. “Parables”, the first album under his own name and out in Europe via Drag City distribution, is intended as a deeply personal attempt to realise all compositional potential he could using just the one simple instrument: Ryan recorded the album live and using no overdubs, and his solo acoustic guitar creates an impossibly rich sound that hints at his extensive musical interests - American bluegrass, Baroque lute music, traditional Bulgarian folk (he is a Balkan music scholar) and jazz improvisation. He does it all live.
http://are-f.com/

plus Mrs Pilgrimm
http://soundcloud.com/mrs-pilgrimm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ3-CQyaTsc

PLEASE NOTE RYAN FRANCESCONI will play at 9.30

the support act Mrs Pilgrimm will play last

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