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Cahalen Morrison & Greg Spatz

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Cahalen MorrisonCahalen Morrison, born and raised in northern New Mexico, now residing in Seattle, writes songs that sound like a Cormac McCarthy novel: simple, beautifully crafted, and seemingly formed from raw natural elements. A student of everything from Jazz and poetry to Dwight Yoakam and rodeo, Cahalen tugs at the taproot of American music, and taken it one step further. Equally at home on fingerstyle guitar, clawhammer banjo or singing unaccompanied, his styles range from old-time, bluegrass and country blues, to honky-tonk and avant-garde folk. Not a virtuoso, or anything of the sort, but a hard working student of music drawn to the subtleties and basics of American music.

Born in New York City, Greg Spatz begged for violin lessons and began playing at six years old. Now he plays fiddle professionally with the renowned John Reischman and the Jaybirds, and bouzouki with the old-time world-folk stringband MightyGreg Spatz Squirrel. “When I was five or six, my parents were reading aloud to me from J.R.R. Tolkien,” Spatz says. “Pretty much simultaneously, I heard the Mendelssohn violin concerto. I could not believe or understand how these two artistic expressions weren’t one and same thing–the lyrical, soaring violin and the narrative. Ever since, music and stories have been intertwined and at the center of my life.”

He is also the author of novels Inukshuk, Fiddler’s Dream and No One But Us, as well as short story collections, Half as Happy and Wonderful Tricks. His short stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines such as Glimmer Train Stories, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Epoch, Santa Monica Review, The New Yorker, etc., and he has published numerous book and music reviews for The Oxford American.

Together, the two wordsmiths will explore a catalog of Cahalen’s original songs and tunes, and a handful of traditional tunes from America and abroad.


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