Bill Mallonee Christmas House Show
Guild Centrum
19003 River Road, Leavenworth, WA
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
7:00pm $12
'Tis the season to think of music! Bill and his wife Muriah Rose are touring around, performing Christmas house concerts, and we get to host one. The sets will include Bill's songs from 'Yonder Shines the Infant Light' (available at http://volsounds.com as well as his standard tunes, old and new. So, think of Christmas trees, candlelight, friends and family, and good music at the Guild this holiday.
"...the best folk-rock act nobody's ever heard of... The intelligence and intensity of Mallonee's writing has elicited comparisons to Dylan from his loyal underground admirers. Given the consistency and quality of Mallonee's work over eight albums, he is arguably the first writer since John Prine to make the comparison plausible." - New York Press
"Dylan-tinged vocal and introspective lyrics that spin out big-picture stories imbued with chilling small details." - Billboard
"Bill Mallonee... [has] remained fascinated with the shadowy emotional toils and struggles inherent in the American experience, compelling, insightful, [he] continues to probe through Americana rock and roll proving that sometimes the only story worth telling is that of the journey." - Rolling Stone
"Mallonee's songs give words to shadowy fears of intimacy, of it's loss, even of the value of what he feels compelled to do." -USA Today
Paste Music Magazine, in a 2006 poll conducted by both writers and artists, listed Athens, Ga. musician Bill Mallonee as #65 in their "100 Best Living Songwriters." Mallonee, the lyrical and musical source behind the late Americana indie band Vigilantes of Love, started playing music in the late 80's. His early work was inspired by the post-punk-pop of XTC, Joy Division, the Clash, and Echo and the Bunnymen. Still, his deeper love for Dylan, Neil Young and other artists and writers of the "American experience" left an indelible mark on his writing and vocal delivery.
"Being a son of the South, it's hard not to be surrounded by the beauty of things fractured and incongruous...it's the stuff of real songs...you learn a lot by doing 180 shows a year. From 1994 till about 2002 we recorded, played and toured constantly...It was the best way to 'find one's own voice'." With Vigilantes of Love behind him, Bill is focusing on his solo artist career. He's 8 albums into his solo work and back to being "just a guy from a college band from Athens, GA." He tours and performs with his wife, keyboardist and vocalist, Muriah Rose.
Cost of this intimate holiday concert is $12. Make it an overnight for $50, or even for the entire Advent Weekend for $150 more. Register online or contact us at (509) 763-3693 or office@artfaith.com.
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