Last year saw the release of You Never Were Much of a Dancer, the debut album from Welsh-born American primitivist Gwenifer Raymond on the Tompkins Square label. In his review of the album, Glenn Kimpton said of the tune Idumea:
“Things stay dusty for ‘Idumea’, a banjo track played in the claw-hammer style, bringing to mind Appalachian music brought straight from the mountains. The structure of the piece uses subtle repetition and drone playing, sounding much like a tune from Nathan Bowles’s A Bottle, A Buckeye set.”
Gwenifer performed at Sidmouth Folk Festival for the first time recently and this video was recorded within seconds of her arriving (she looks so composed, you’d never have guessed):
Upcoming Dates
August 24th – HUB Festival, Cardiff
August 25th – Foxfest, Oxfordshire
August 31st – Moseley Folk Fest, Birmingham
October 25th – Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer, Adam Smith Theatre, Fife