O'Donovan hopes to find the magic
The release is the follow-up to her 2013 solo debut "Fossils." Produced by Tucker Martine (Neko Case, The Decemberists), "In The Magic Hour" features 10 songs, 9 written by O'Donovan. I'm With Her band mates Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz, Chris Thile (Punch Brothers) and Nate Query (The Decemberists) help out.
O'Donovan will support Glen Hansard on his U.S. tour this November, and play shows with I'm With Her, before year's end. Her In the Magic Hour tour will start on the Irish shores in Dublin. Headlining dates for 2016 in the U.S. will be announced soon.
As O'Donovan began writing the songs for the new CD, her grandfather, an O'Donovan family patriarch, died. His passing opened a flood of memories for Aoife, who was raised in the Boston area, but spent childhood summers alongside many of her grandfather's 26 other grandchildren in the small Irish town of Clonakilty where he lived.
The album artwork for "In The Magic Hour" features a photograph of a seven-year-old O'Donovan on one such trip, and a faint recording of her grandfather's singing can be heard on the album's track and traditional Irish song "Donal "g."
The track list is:
1. Stanley Park
2. Magic Hour
3. Porch Light
4. Hornets
5. Magpie
6. Donal "g
7. The King of All Birds
8. Not The Leaving
9. Detour Sign
10. Jupiter
2015 North American Tour Dates:
Oct .18 - Brooklyn, NY - St Ann's Warehouse %
Nov. 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Walt Disney Concert Hall *
Nov. 10 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic *
Nov. 13 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
Nov. 14 - Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre *
Nov. 16 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre *
Nov. 17 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater *
Nov. 19 - Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre *
Nov. 20 - Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre *
Nov. 21 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre *
Nov. 23 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant *
Nov. 24 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theatre *
Nov. 25 - Atlanta, GA - Buckshead Theatre *
Dec. 10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
Dec. 11 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg ^
2016 European Tour Dates:
Jan. 27 - Dublin, IE - Tradfest
Jan. 28 - Belfast, UK - Out to Lunch Festival
Jan. 29 - Glasgow, UK - Celtic Connections
Jan. 30 - Sheffield, UK - Greystones
Jan. 31 - Bury, UK - The Met
Feb. 1 - Bristol, UK - Tunnels
Feb. 5 - Oxford, UK - Bullingdon
% w Thomas Bartlett, Sam Amidon
* w Glen Hansard
^ w I'm With Her: Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz
More news for Aoife O'Donovan
- 03/31/23: O'Donovan rises with "Phoenix"
- 03/16/21: O'Donovan goes "Transatlantic"
- 01/22/16: O'Donovan tops releases
- 08/21/14: Pikelny, O'Donovan team up for tour
- 03/03/14: O'Donovan sets new tour
- 06/11/13: Guthrie tribute concert out today
CD reviews for Aoife O'Donovan
Whether Aoife O'Donovan has made the decision to leave her day job with Crooked Still remains to be seen, but based on the results of her second solo album, "In The Magic Hour," she'd clearly fare just fine if she opted to pursue her own career full time. It's not like she hasn't spread her wings far afield already; in recent years she's loaned her talents to a diverse array of musicians that includes Ollabelle, Jerry Douglas, Jim Lauderdale, Darol Anger, Sarah ...
Aiofe O'Donovan has been on a roll. As lead singer of the well-regarded alt.-bluegrass band, Crooked Still, O'Donovan helped put the alt. in the bluegrass with her light, sometimes breathy vocals. She also gained attention for singing on two songs on "The Goat Rodeo Sessions." She's now on her own (Crooked Still is on hiatus) for her first full-length disc.
O'Donovan shows she is more that up to the task, starting with Lay My Burden Down, which the Massachusetts ...
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