Pamela Wyn Shannon

about

Massachusetts-based musician, Pamela Wyn Shannon's inventive and intricate guitar work has been described as "a tiny chamber orchestra working in unison at the end of her hands." She has walked with the legends of British and Irish folk music, garnering respect and admiration wherever she goes. The songs on her new CD, COURTING AUTUMN, have an elliptical quality which creates its own timeframe, rules, and kingdoms, reminiscent of that magic found in UK '60s psyche-folk artifacts. In August 2007, in advance of the album's release, she performed live on BBC Radio One and played the Green Man Festival in Wales, where the line-up included Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsome, Vashti Bunyan, John Renbourn & Robert Plant. This year she will perform at the Green Man again where two of her greatest influences will also perform (Pentangle, Richard Thompson). Pamela's new CD, Courting Autumn, which she recorded largely on her own throughout New England, is a rustic almanac of autumnal songs burnished with a melancholy mood, wistful vocals, delicate hand-spun guitar playing, weather-worn and windswept by plaintive string and recorder arrangements. COURTING AUTUMN VOTED THE TOP 10 BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR: "A MELANCHOLIC AND MYSTIC MASTERWORK. BRILLIANT!” – HEAVEN MAGAZINE, The Netherlands "A MOST BEAUTIFUL ALBUM...GENTLE ANDSENSITIVE... LOVELY AND SLIGHTLY STRANGE ATMOSPHERE... MADE ME SHIVER...LOVELY, SWEETLY PONGIANT" - SHIRLEY COLLINS "AN ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED MASTERPIECE!" - PSY

top songs

albums

Courting Autumn

Nature's Bride

Oak Ash Thorn

Weirdlore: Notes from the Folk Underground

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Echoes From the Mountain

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fRoots 31

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Weirdlore

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The Oak, Ash & Thorn Project

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_`I3 These Chains

Weirdshire at Babar

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Nature's Bride demo stage

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Fire, Feathers, Felony & Fate. Songs & Tunes from the Leigh Folk Festival 2011

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