Folkhouse music this weekend

Sweet Laredo

Friday, 21 May 2010

http://www.myspace.com/sweetlaredo

Ticket price:£6

Doors:8pm

Sweet Laredo

The subtle influences of Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone combined with Erykah Badu make Sweet Laredo compelling Listening.Evening Standard

Sweet Laredo are Sarah J. Scott and Dan W. Coggins T. Finding a shared love of soul, jazz, blues and hip-hop they began to collaborate on smoked-out,beats-driven tunes. These were then stripped back to be played only on a battered old spanish guitar giving full reign to Sarah's incredible voice which veers wildly between the gutsy blues moan of Etta James and the smoked-out rasps of Eryka Badu.

www.myspace.com/sweetlaredo

VANDAVEER

Sunday, 23 May 2010

http://www.myspace.com/vandaveer

Ticket price:£5 adv/6 door

Doors:7pm

“Superb. Vandaveer’s Divide & Conquer avoids the sophomore slump by miles and miles.” – POPMATTERS

“Jarring new folk.” – ROLLING STONE

“Divide & Conquer is as good as we could’ve hoped–slightly more delicate than Grace & Speed and punctuated with crescendos that explode in mid-air. ” – LA BLOGOTHEQUE

Vandaveer’s debut album, Grace & Speed, a mostly live, stripped down affair, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007 garnering rave reviews and comparisons to Donovan, Dylan, Waits, Drake, Simon, and the like. Touring continually on both sides of the Atlantic ever since, Vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including Bon Iver, Alejandro Escovedo, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Evan Dando, Scout Niblett, The Ditty Bops, Smog, Fleet Foxes, Alela Diane and his dear friends in DC’s ramshackle collective, The Federal Reserve. In addition to said Vandaveering, Heidinger has been known to fraternize and conspire with other music-making hooligans, primarily as a bassist with fellow DCers These United States.