Jude Brothers Album Release Show with Moriah Bailey and Kalyn Fay

Join us at Clapp Auditorium at Mount Sequoyah for a celebration of Jude’s new record, ‘render tender / blunder sunder,’ out May 12nd on Gar Hole Records. Jude will be joined by fellow harpist Moriah Bailey from OKC and recent Arkansas transplant Kalyn Fay.

Tickets are $15 (pay what you want) in advance and $20 at the door

Doors at 6:30 / music by 7:30

Jude Brothers – Fayetteville, AR

https://judebrothersmusic.bandcamp.com/

Moriah Bailey – Oklahoma City, OK

https://moriahbailey.bandcamp.com/

Kalyn Fay – Bentonville, AR

https://kalynfay.bandcamp.com/

render tender / blunder sunder

Blending traditional sensibilities with contemporary concerns, render tender / blunder sunder arrives ready to propel listeners into the heart of songwriter Jude Brothers rich emotional experience journeying through the underworld of doubt, longing, heart-break, and loss of identity, and arriving on the other side lighter, at a place of expansiveness and healing.

Recorded over two days in a light-filled and scrub-jay surrounded room on a mesa in Lamy, New Mexico, the album is suffused Brothers extended search for space, clarity, and expression following profound grief and doubt in the bizarre and often-public end of a long and fruitful romantic and musical partnership. Listeners accompany Brothers as they move through the dismantling of both artistic and private dreams and identities, confronting the reality of separation, and reasserting their distinct creative voice.

The nine track record, a stripped down and honest presentation of Brothers free-form compositions on tenor guitar and Celtic lever harp, displays their ease working within the framework of American Folk Music paradigms gleaned from a musical childhood in Northwest Arkansas, steeped in its attendant regional influences and enriched through their abiding and engaged love of various world folk traditions. Gliding atop delicately plucked harp-laden lullabies and adventurous freak-folk romps is Brothers effortless, playful, and expressive lyricism, propelled by a fearless and dynamic vocal range reminiscent of Karen Dalton, Joanna Newsom, and Joni Mitchell.

Living at the intersection of heartbreak and psycho-drama, the collected songs of render tender / blunder sunder fall beautifully within the tradition of music that interrogates life in this case, the often-baffling distances that can exist between what is imagined and what is lived, what is remembered and what is still being learned.