Staycation Festival Artist Profiles #1
Featured Artists:
Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble and Rita Hosking
The Staycation Cyber Festival takes place Easter Weekend, April 10-12, 2020 on Facebook Live and will feature the artists on the Evangeline Presents Roster plus a couple who are not. Please see below the profile for full schedule and links for the festival. Three more artist profile blogs to come!
More information on Evangeline Presents, our artists and the festival is at www.evangelinepresents.com
Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble
"A flat out superb vocalist... Glaze delivers warm, amber-toned vocals that explore the psychic depth of a lyric with deft acuity and technical perfection." - LA Weekly
Named the BEST NEW FOLK artist by LA Weekly in May of 2019!
Award-winning vocalist Susie Glaze and mandolinist Steve Rankin are The Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble, the newest version of the acclaimed Los Angeles-based Americana group, a lush new folk Americana fusion ensemble, presenting gorgeous eclectic blends of mountain folk and exciting new grassy and Celtic-inspired originals, all with the remarkable voice of Susie Glaze. The group has been likened to the classic British bands Pentangle and Fairport Convention in that they blend classic folk music with rough-edged stories of tragedy and fate, all with orchestral arrangements sounding like chamber music gone folk! The band has appeared at many premier venues and festivals on the West Coast, including Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage, McCabe's Guitar Shop, The Broad Stage, the Hollywood Bowl, Palms Playhouse, Don Quixote's Music Hall, Kuumbwa Jazz Center and CalTech Folk Music Society among others. Their CD “White Swan” was released in March of 2013 to critical acclaim from No Depression, FolkWorks, Pop Matters, M Magazine for Musicians, Music News Nashville and FolkWords UK among others, and charted in the Top 50 on the Roots Music Report's Combined Internet and Terrestrial Folk Chart. Their new album "Not That Kind of Girl" produced by Herb Pedersen was released in June 2015 and is enjoying critical acclaim and radio airplay around the country. “If there were a word to describe this fine band, it would be sophisticated. They draw influences from disparate sources to meld their sound. The level of musicianship is exemplary.… display a great range of prowess and work as a tight unit.” -- Bluegrass Unlimited. “…one of the finest and most original Americana groups in California (or in the country for that matter).” No Depression. Augmenting their sound is the lush, Celtic sounds of Rankin’s bouzouki and the mountain sounds of Susie’s Appalachian dulcimer and traditional autoharp.
Susie Glaze has been honored to be included on the newly-released Compass Records tribute album "Dear Jean - Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie" alongside such artists as Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Janis Ian, Tim O'Brien, John McCutcheon, Robin and Linda Williams and many more.
Rita Hosking
"Authentic American folk-music that stirs the soul." - Alan Harrison for No Depression
"Arresting lines and images come thick and fast. Her songs are observational, political and philosophical in an unaffected, organic way." - Songlines Magazine
Rita Hosking’s s style of country-folk has been lauded for story and sense of place, and her performances praised with capturing the audience. Honors include winner of the 2008 Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Sisters Folk Festival, finalist in the 2009 Telluride Music Festival Troubadour Contest, and honors in the International Songwriting Contest and West Coast Songwriters' Association. "This California girl comes by her mountain music sensibility with true authenticity, with original songs deeply rooted in her family's frontier experience," (Dan Ruby, FestivalPreview.com) and Rita's fans call her "the real deal." A descendant of Cornish miners who sang in the mines, Rita grew up with deep regard for folk music and the power of the voice.
A Northern Californian, Rita sings of forest fires, culture clash, dishes, rivers, black holes and hope. An award-winning and prolific songwriter characterized as "here and now" by The Observer, her stories, songs and soul-stirring, country-folk voice are partnered with longtime collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Sean Feder on dobro, banjo and guitar. Together, they deliver what Acoustic Magazine calls “timeless, unhurried elegance.”
Rita has a new interactive project called The Oar, a new online journal, is an invitation to her fan base to grab an oar and keep the proverbial boat afloat, and on its journey. Now the ultimate source for all current, original Rita Hosking works, The Oar includes her up-to-the-minute latest songs accompanied by development notes, poems with readings, articles on the process of songwriting, visual art, and more. Fans are encouraged to leave comments, suggest poem titles or articles, as well as join Rita for live streaming, interactive demonstrations. To learn more or subscribe, visit www.ritahosking.com/the-oar