Diane Cluck with Isabel Castellvi // Sun 20th April // The Riverside

Event information

We're very happy to be welcoming Virginia based songwriter Diane Cluck back to Sheffield. She describes her music as ‘intuitive folk'. She accompanies herself on instruments ranging from guitar to piano, harmonium, zither, percussion, and toy accordian, and will be performing in duo form with cellist Isabel Castellvi.

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http://dianecluck.info/

https://www.facebook.com/DianeCluck

https://twitter.com/DianeCluck

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Diane releases her seventh album, Boneset, through Important Records on 4th March, 2014—a brief and dense journey seeded with birds, death, poverty & riches, fear, boldness and heart. “Cluck’s sparse compositions seem to float defiantly from some fortress the conscious self had long left behind”, a reviewer from The Providence Phoenix recently wrote.

Fellow folk musician Devendra Banhart championed her early, referring to her as “my favorite singer-songwriter in all of New York City”, and choosing one of her songs for his Golden Apples of the Sun compilation. Other supporters / collaborators include CocoRosie, who invited Cluck to open shows in the U.S. and Europe and released her Countless Times album through their personal label imprint. Sharon Van Etten, Florence Welch (of Florence And The Machine), and Laura Marling have all cited Diane’s work as influential.

Prior to developing a loyal underground fanbase, Cluck was a standout performer in New York’s Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn music scenes. She recorded and self-produced six albums that went on to receive international distribution and acclaim. Songs from her album Oh Vanille / ova nil appeared in Noah Baumbach’s film Margot at The Wedding and the U.K. television series, Skins.

In 2012 Diane launched Song-of-the-Week–a fan-funded, subscription-based project through her website (http://dianecluck.info/sotw-songs) in which she writes, records and delivers new songs to subscribers. The process helped her develop many of the songs that appear on Boneset, and continues to generate new material for her live shows and future albums.

“Diane Cluck seems like more of a force of nature than a mere singer/songwriter. She is the rare archetypal artist (without ironic quotes) though whom something pure and true flows.”
-Brainwashed.com

“An unlikely mix of Aaron Neville, the Baka people, and Joni Mitchell, Cluck’s singing is unaffected yet unusual.”
-NPR

“Bell-clear and hotly austere, her lithe, dynamic voice hasn’t much kin. Categorizing her as folk is simplistic…(Cluck) emanates something humble but mythic. Appalachia or ancient Athens? Both hum and lilt in the unpretentious drama of her airy songs…”
-Time Out New York

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Advanced tickets £7

Doors 7:30pm

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This show is promoted through Sheffield Food Collective and Riverside Live. Sheffield Food Collective is an organisation which aims to collect food, raise funds and awareness for Sheffield Food Banks and other similar organisations through the events we host.

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