Party: Charlie Parr - Stumpjumper 2016

Party: Charlie Parr - Stumpjumper 2016

One of the top voices in American Folk Music returns to Australia in February 2016 Many people play roots music, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota's Charlie Parr. Parr's heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don't strive for authenticity: They are authentic.

A favourite of Australian audiences thanks to his national tour supporting for Paul Kelly, dates with You Am I and spots on festivals such as Falls, Sunset Sounds, Southbound and Wave Rock, Parr returns to Australia in support of his latest album ‘Stumpjumper’.

His first release for acclaimed indie label Red House Records ‘Stumpjumper’ - 10 originals and his version of the venerable murder ballad, ‘Delia’ - could be lost field recordings from another era. Switching between acoustic guitar, dobro and banjo his blistering picking and keening, cut-through-the-crowd vocals resonate with a conviction that runs deep and true. It's the music of a self-taught guitarist and banjo player who grew up listening to his dad's recordings of America's musical founding fathers, including Charley Patton and Lightnin' Hopkins, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly.

---- "The native Minnesotan’s style can best be described as new music from an older time – sometimes dark and desolate, sometimes raucous and danceable." Vintage Guitar
"One of that dwindling band of living folk musicians with truly original voices and an approach that really isn't a direct derivative of anything that came before." Maverick Magazine