Sligo Live Festival confirm another headline show as Canadian Americana and folk artist Frazey Ford confirmed
Sligo Live urge fans to book early to select the best seats and avoid disappointment.
Frazey Ford is one of Canada's most distinctive voices, a singer-songwriter whose music defies easy categorization.
Emerging as a founding member of the folk trio The Be Good Tanyas, Ford helped pioneer a roots revival in the early 2000s that blending Americana, folk, and alt-country.
Her solo career has taken her into new territory. Ford's 2010 debut 'Obadiah' introduced listeners to a more soulful, introspective side of her artistry, fusing folk with slow-burning Southern soul.
She followed it with Indian Ocean in 2014, recorded in Memphis with members of Al Green legendary Hi Rhythm section. Frazey Ford's third album, 'U kin B the Sun', is a luminous, defiant work that deals with themes of transformation, healing, and inner strength.
Her lyrics speak to both personal and political awakenings, delivered with a voice that's both intimate and soaring. Whether she's channelling soul, folk, or R&B, she delivers songs that feel lived-in, real, and rooted in the complexity of human experience.
At turns ecstatic and heavy-hearted, gloriously shambolic and deeply purifying, 'U kin B the Sun' is the outcome of a certain personal transformation that Ford has experienced in recent years.
'I used to speak more in metaphors, but this album came out in a much more raw and direct way,' she says.
'I'd say that's a result of being more in my body and more in touch with the wholeness of anger, with taking up space and having boundaries. On this record I freed myself from the folk-writing format, and it's been a whole different exploration for me.'
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Frazey Ford Tickets are €34.00 plus fees and are available on-line at Sligolive.ie and in person or by phone (071) 916 1518 from the Hawk's Well box office.
Frazey Ford joins a Sligo Live Festival line-up which includes, Sharon Shannon Big Band with guests, Steve Earle, Mundy, Camile O'Sullivan and Liam O Maonlaí in the Knocknarea Arena Oct 25th at 8.30pm.
Steve N Seagulls with guests, Jaywalkers, in the Hawk's Well Oct 24th at 8.00pm. Joel Dommett – 'Happy Idiot', in the Hawk's Well on Oct 25th. Mary Gauthier with guest, Jaimee Harris, in the Hawk's Well Oct 26th at 8.00pm and Daniel Herskedal from Norway play a very special afternoon Hawk's Well show at 3pm on Oct 26th. Ye Vagabonds with guest, Niamh Bury, in the Hawk's Well Nov 1st at 8.00pm.
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