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Mick Flower and Matt Valentine play guitar my two amplifiers

Golden Cherry Ball

Golden Cherry Ball

A chance to connect to the source of the folk spirit; for sure. We wanted to do an event that really explored the anarchic, communal and kind of self-validated vibe of musical creation that’s a big part of why we dig some of the of the great revenant folk players of our time. What’s it like to actually hang back at Matt Valentine’s house (Maximum Arousal Farm, Vermont), late at night and listen to the songs being swapped.

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So we’ve invited MV & EE with their band the Golden Road to sit in with The Cherry Blossoms – Middle Tennessee’s finest anarchic post neo-skiffle collective specializing in kazoo-exotica – to sit about, take turns to swap a few songs, sink a pint of 80/- at the bar and come back and sing a few more.

MV & EE and The Golden Road – an intoxicating brew of revenant folk and avant-garde/ beat/ outsider techniques fused in the sun of Neil Young’s heaviest electric cuts.

The Cherry Blossoms – just about the finest good time, back to the source jug band you’ve maybe never heard. Sweet as all hell vocals and a kazoo sound to die for.

Watch out for a guest appearance from Glasgow’s own ecstatic folk poet Richard Youngs and a film of him pootling around by Luke Fowler.

Documentation

8 images, 5 audio
MV+EE The Golden Road Set 1
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MV+EE The Golden Road Set 2
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The Cherry Blossoms Set 1
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The Cherry Blossoms (with MV+EE) Set 2
The Cherry Blossoms MV+EE The Golden Road
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Erica Elder sits with a guitar on her lap smiling in a floral skirt

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

a Bearded and hatted Matt Valentine plays guitar and sings

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Peggy from The Cherry Blossoms plays guitar and sings

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Mick Flower and Matt Valentine play guitar my two amplifiers

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Three members of the Cherry Blossoms sing and play guitar

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

members congrate on stage some clapping, some singing, smiling playing guitar

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A stage full of band members all conversing with each other

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

one band member is sprawled on the floor as other gather around

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Erica Elder sits with a guitar on her lap smiling in a floral skirt

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

a Bearded and hatted Matt Valentine plays guitar and sings

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Peggy from The Cherry Blossoms plays guitar and sings

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Mick Flower and Matt Valentine play guitar my two amplifiers

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Three members of the Cherry Blossoms sing and play guitar

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

members congrate on stage some clapping, some singing, smiling playing guitar

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A stage full of band members all conversing with each other

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

one band member is sprawled on the floor as other gather around

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

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