Among the Oak and Ash with special Guest Sandy Bell

Show Description

On Among The Oak & Ash, Pennsylvania-born New Yorker Josh Joplin and the Mississippi-bred, Nashville-based Garrison Starr lend their distinctive voices to a dozen traditional folk songs drawn from rural Appalachian and Anglo-American musical idioms.  Although much of the material is centuries old, the songs' eloquently simple melodies, and their universal themes of love, loss, longing, cruelty and death, give them a timeless resonance into which Joplin and Starr tap effortlessly.  With the duo's evocative harmonies complemented by spare, stripped-down arrangements, Among The Oak & Ash is a powerful testament to Joplin and Starr's interpretive abilities, and to the ageless appeal of these ancient tunes.

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Caught somewhere between Patsy Cline and Patti Smith, confessional songstress Sandy Bell makes her debut at Joe’s Pub. Born in Cleveland, now living in Brooklyn, Sandy continues to make songs that transform the forgotten into dreamy melodies and washes of sound.