All tagged Aoife O'Donovan
There is a tendency at multi-venue music festivals like Americanafest to overthink the line-up card. You race from one venue to another to try to create the perfectly curated live music experience from the dozens of great acts playing all over town, only to stand in the back or miss half the acts you wanted to see. I’m more of a pick-a-venue-and-settle-in guy, and the Day One evening we had at 3rd and Lindsley is one reason why.
Aoife O’Donovan is a Grammy award-winning artist whose career has spanned twenty some-odd years, and whose musical diversity extends from playing with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, to appearing on Prairie Home Companion, and even writing music for HBO’s True Blood.
Indeed, diversity seems to be a key component of O’Donovan’s upcoming 11-track release, Age of Apathy. While her Irish heritage and childhood summers peep through the lilting musical arrangements, the descriptive lyrics and phrasing belie her influences of early folk legends Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
One song, “Galahad,” combines these elements, and incorporates a nod to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Victorian poet. The song leads the listener on a watercolor dream journey of unrequited love between a modern dreamer and her legendary, possibly imaginary, complement, chiding him in the end for being too late to act.
