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Colcannon (Australia) - Saturday, November 24, 2007

Leigh, of Bragg Creek Performing Arts has heard Colcannon and has been trying to get Colcannon to our stage for years. Colcannon is a band from Adelaide, South Australia so their trips to western Canada are not frequent.

Their feel is slightly Celtic but the songs are strongly Australian.

With 8 CDs to their credit, Colcannon can be heard from Germany to Japan and beyond with international touring becoming a regular occurrence  performing at some of the world's most prestigious festivals such as Winnipeg and Calgary Folk Festivals in Canada, and the renowned Edinburgh Festival (usually in The Famous Spiegeltent) and Fylde Festival in England.

Information from a review -
On the go now for around 17 years, the Adelaide-based five-piece are well practiced musically and also in the elusive art of easy-going stagecraft and audience engagement.

Led by garrulous Glaswegian émigré John Munro and ably supported by vocalist Kat Krause, guitarist Peter Titchener, fiddle player Emma Luker and bassist Jenna Bonavita, the band lived up to their well established reputation with a frequently inspiring blend of rich vocal prowess and pointed, personal, and often heavily politicized lyrics.

Obviously aware of their harmonic ability, the group eased their way into the first of two 45-minute sets with a pair of massed vocal-driven songs that sat nicely within the folk idiom established by late sixties bands such as Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention and, although they would probably balk at the comparison, Aussie compatriots the Seekers. Impressive as the easy-going upbeat excursions were, it was with the slower, more melancholic, numbers that they really hit their stride.

Both Border, a song written by Munro about his yearning affection for Scotland as an exile, and My Only Son, another song penned by the Glaswegian, this time based on his relief that his child had decided against a career in the army, hit the mark.
Duncan Forgan - Glasgow Evening News

Tracks

Colcannon (Australia) has a new myspace site. Great tracks.

Reviews

"...The high level of musicianship was exciting, as was the interplay between the members. The repartee between John and Kat had the audience in stitches, as well as demonstrating the extreme closeness and appreciation between them, but it was Peter's one liners at the end of John and Kat's banter that had the audience rolling in the aisles and the band falling apart. I jest not. At the beginning of the second set Colcannon got a fit of the giggles. The audience watched amazed. Pity you can't bottle an atmosphere like that. 100% au natural..."
GABLE END THEATRE - HOY - 7TH AUGUST 2004

Web Site

There are two international groups named Colcannon. Australian Colcannon's web site is www.colcannon.net.

 

 

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