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FOLKLORE:
2005 - present
Folklore is a mini-orchestra of players led
by Jimmy Hughes. A veteran to the Athens music scene where he
plays with the likes of Elf Power and Vic Chesnutt, Hughes
took the songwriter role when he formed Folklore in 2005 to create two
conceptual albums: The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman (2007) and
Carpenter’s Falls (2008). Both based around a
grandiose tale with different vocalists cast to sing each song, these
albums offer splendid melodies at every turn
with clarinets, strings,
trumpet, didgeridoo, and more forming
the backdrop to songs that critics have called poignant, provocative,
heartbreaking, and haunting.
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The new album, Home Church Road, presents 13
songs telling the epic story of a future Earth after human extinction
and
features performances by all of the Athens cast as well as the
Philadelphia players.
In this story, only a few species of mammals, birds, lizards, and bugs
remain. They peacefully coexist on Earth until the day they
discover, alive but buried in the ground, a human priest. This is
Loki. Loki is a shape-shifter and his friendly manipulations and
seductions will ensure the rebirth of the large carnivorous beasts and
dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth.
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In 2005, Jimmy started writing the
Folklore songs as an outlet for unfinished fiction, a collection of
connected stories written as songs rather than prose. From this
experimental project the Athens GA band was born and performed and recorded
the first two records: Jon Croxton (drums / guitar), Aaron Jollay
(bass / trombone), Ian Rickert (bass / clarinet / harmonica), Che-Na Stephens
(clarinet), Raoul De La Cruz (trumpet), and David Specht (oscillator
/
violin / bells)
ATHENS BAND PIC click here
In 2009, Jimmy relocated to
Philadelphia PA where he managed to find eight people who wanted to
continue playing as Folklore, and within months of moving there, the
band was already playing regular club shows and house shows. So
what would have most likely faded into a lost bedroom project is now a
stronger than ever live band in Philadelphia: Jason Henn (drums),
Chad
Arnett (guitar), Scott Churchman (bass), Avalon Clare (clarinet),
Yianni Kourmadas (bass clarinet), Cheryl Nguyen (violin),
Andrew Keller
(viola), Jordan Burgis (guitar)
PHILADELPHIA BAND PIC click here
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