Music from main new Scottish people musical Ballad Lines to be launched as a teaser EP on 18th July and full 18 observe idea album on twelfth September.
The model new recordings function an all-star solid of visitor artists together with Gaelic Singer of the Year Kim Carnie, JUNO Award-winning banjo participant Kaia Kater and four-time BBC Alba Scots Singer of the Year Siobhan Miller alongside prime musical theatre expertise together with Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn and CATS Award-winner Kirsty Findlay.
The album will probably be launched with a particular one-off live performance at Cottiers in Glasgow on Monday fifteenth September, that includes artists from the album
Featuring authentic songs alongside re-imagined conventional Scottish and Appalachian ballads, Ballad Lines is conceived by acclaimed Scottish songwriter Finn Anderson and theatre director Tania Azevedo
‘It is brilliant: an ambitious, expansive, evocative show about music and motherhood that brims with heart and history.’ ***** Fergus Morgan The Stage
The music from main new Scottish people musical Ballad Lines will probably be launched as an formidable 18 observe idea album on twelfth September, bringing collectively main feminine people and theatre artists from either side of the Atlantic.
The newly-recorded album will function a gifted solid of prime musical theatre performers together with Olivier Award-winning actress Rebecca Trehearn (Show Boat, New London Theatre), Frances McNamee (Girl from the North Country, West End), Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland Award-winner Kirsty Findlay (The Carol King Musical, Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress in a Musical winner Danielle Fiamanya (The Colour Purple, Curve Theatre, Leicester/ Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre and shortly to be quickly within the lead position at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s summer season manufacturing of Brigadoon), Parisa Shahmir (Jesus Christ Superstar, Watermill Theatre) and Dylan Wood, at present enjoying the main position of Orpheus in Hadestown, West End. Joining them on the album are a number of Scottish and North American visitor artists together with Gaelic Singer of the Year Kim Carnie, JUNO Award-winning banjo participant Kaia Kater, four-time BBC Alba Scots Singer of the Year Siobhan Miller and Celtic Connections pageant common Beth Malcom. The album’s all-female band is made up of one in every of Scotland’s foremost acoustic guitarists Anna Massie, famend Highland fiddle participant Laura Wilkie (Kinnaris Quintet, Rachel Sermanni), electrical guitarist Jenny Clifford (recent from performing in Thom Yorke’s Hamlet Hail to the Thief), bassist Charlotte Printer (who has carried out with Joesef, Altered Images and Skipinnish) and Scottish-Icelandic percussionist and drummer Signy Jakobsdottir (who has carried out with Lloyd Cole and Karine Polwart).
In the run-up to the complete album launch, a teaser EP of 4 tracks will probably be launched on 18th July and a single, Queen Among The Heather, will probably be launched on twenty ninth August. The launch of the complete album will probably be celebrated with a really particular one-off live performance at Cottiers in Glasgow on fifteenth September, that includes artists from the album.
Ballad Lines (beforehand A Mother’s Song) is a heart-opening, 5 star-reviewed new musical that shines a light-weight on how the songs and decisions of our ancestors can change the course of our futures.
Sarah comes from a protracted line of ballad singers, however has severed ties with the folks traditions of her childhood. In modern-day New York City, Sarah’s rediscovery of those songs and the household tales inside them, drive her to go on an sudden and life-changing journey throughout time. Spanning continents and generations,Ballad Lines follows three girls certain collectively by blood, music, and selection. In Seventeenth-century Scotland, Cait, a minister’s spouse, wrestles with the constraints of her position. In 18th-century Ulster, Jean, a spirited teenager, steps into an unsure future. In the current day, Sarah, a queer lady, finds herself torn between the life she’s constructed and the deep, sudden pull of her ancestors’ voices. Ballad Lines weaves collectively authentic new songs with centuries-old conventional Scottish, Irish, and Appalachian ballads, respiratory new life into music that has echoed by means of generations, unearthing the deep ties between storytelling, heritage, and id.
The new album will function 18 songs, together with new preparations of conventional ballads like Handsome Molly, The Four Marys and Let No Man Steal Your Thyme alongside 14 authentic songs by songwriter Finn Anderson. The musicians on the album come from a various vary of people, roots, pop, rock and various music scenes, and the music attracts on a spread of types whereas staying true to its people origins.
Conceived by Finn Anderson (whose earlier musical Islander was carried out Off-Broadway and Off-West End and recorded for BBC Radio 4) and Tania Azevedo (Resident Director & Juliet London West End), the musical started in 2014, commissioned collectively by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Northwestern’s American Music Theatre Project. Workshops in Chicago and live performance showcases at MacRobert Arts Centre honed the piece from 2018 by means of 2022, culminating in its critically acclaimed world premiere at Stirling’s Macrobert Arts Centre in February 2023 underneath the present’s earlier title A Mother’s Song.
“This has been one of the most challenging and exciting projects of my career so far — a culmination of everything I’ve learned working in music and theatre over the past decade” says Finn. “Our dream for this undertaking was to create a real fusion of people and musical theatre. For the album, we’ve introduced collectively a number of the most fun people and conventional musicians and singers from Scotland and North America, alongside a number of the UK’s finest musical theatre performers. The result’s an 18-track rating that I hope captures each the authenticity of conventional Scottish and Appalachian ballad storytelling, and the dramatic emotional sweep of nice musical theatre.
Most of the musicians and people singers on the album haven’t labored in theatre earlier than, and the Scottish and Appalachian conventional types are comparatively untapped territory for a musical. As an artist who straddles the music and theatre scenes. it’s so rewarding for me to cross-pollinate and mix these two worlds, bringing artists from the totally different sides of my work collectively in a method that feels actually genuine to who I’m and likewise simply actually proper for this story. Ballad Lines explores how songs journey — how they evolve, shift, and alter arms over time. So it feels particularly significant to have assembled a cross-genre, cross-continental firm to carry these songs to life.”
“Ballad Lines places queer and female voices at the heart of an art form historically dominated by patriarchal narratives.” says Tania. “By reinterpreting traditional ballads through the lens of a modern queer woman tracing her matrilineal line, we both hope this show reclaims folklore as a space for diverse, intersectional storytelling—something rarely seen in either folk or musical theatre.”
The teaser EP that includes 4 tracks (Prologue, Unexpected Visitor, Back within the Box and Change of Plan) is obtainable now on all main on-line shops and streaming websites.
The single Queen Among The Heather will probably be launched on twenty ninth August.
The full album will probably be launched on twelfth September.
Tickets for the Ballad Lines launch live performance on fifteenth September are on sale now. Visit https://www.balladlines.com/
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