US folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman are bringing their latest album to Australia - and taking time out of their huge tour to play at The Sound Doctor.Over the years, Bonny Light Horseman has accumulated many miles on the collective odometer of life. The band’s core trio – Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman – has amassed an incomparable collected resume. Mitchell is a celebrated solo artist as well as the playwright and songwriter behind the hit Broadway musical Hadestown, which notched eight Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Johnson is best known as the mind behind beloved indie mainstays Fruit Bats, as a longtime collaborator with The Shins, and as a film score composer. And Kaufman is a multi-hyphenate extraordinaire: songwriter, producer, and position player, having recorded and performed with artists ranging from Bob Weir to The War on Drugs to Taylor Swift, Hiss Golden Messenger and The Hold Steady. As a group they've received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album and been nominated for Best American Roots Performance.
More important than any of this, though, they’ve also lived a big ol’ messy and tangled up pile of life, and all that living permeates their music with the wisdom, humour and depth that underlies the accolades. Theirs is the stuff that defines folk music as a genre - love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time. The Big Stuff, with the stakes sky high.
At the centre of Bonny Light Horseman is, always, the singular combination of three powerful and tender artists, artists who expertly dodge superlatives but are quick to acknowledge that their bond makes each one better, braver and more vulnerable than they’d be on their own. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the force of their voices together, which work with complete trust in one another through the gentlest moments and the most ruthless wails.
This will be a stunning night of upbeat indie folk that you'll remember for a lifetime!
Standing event.
Tickets $55
Supported by Surf Coast Events, Creative Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria
Australian tour presented by Jet Black Cat Music
Event Venue
1B McMillan Street, Anglesea, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3230
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