Brown Bird To Be ‘Live At ETH’ Featured Guests, August 3

MorganEve Swain, who along with Dave Lamb makes up the acoustic indie folk band Brown Bird, will return to her hometown for the second time in just over a year on Friday, August 3, for a “Live at the Edmond Town Hall” concert. Brown Bird opened for the indie folk rock quartet Low Anthem last June at the same venue.

Likened to blues, early Americana Appalachia, European folk, and old time country, the couple pulls from many music styles when writing their original lyrics and music. Ms Swain plays upright bass and cello, as well as the fiddle for which she is best known in Newtown. Mr Lamb adds acoustic guitar, banjo and percussion, and both of the musicians provide vocals to songs that are as haunting as they are lyrical.

Eastern European “Gypsy” bands, metal bands like Mastodon, and old country classics weave their ways through the music of Brown Bird, and not surprisingly, there is some influence of the Cape Briton and classic music that has played a big part in Ms Swain’s musical life.

Tickets for the 7 pm concert at Edmond Town Hall, Friday, August 3, can be purchased at edmondtownhall.org, for $19.99 per ticket, plus $5.01 Theater Restoration fee (total $25). The concert continues a series of special events organized by Newtown resident Hayden Bates since June 2011, when he introduced the series with the Low Anthem performance mentioned above. Partial proceeds from tickets sales go directly to renovations of the Main Street landmark.

For tickets or additional information, visit EdmondTownHall.org.

Doors open at 6:30, and there will be an opening set by the New Haven-based folk rock trio The Proud Flesh.