South Street

Frank Fairfield + support from Daniel Pattison

Friday 3 September 2010, Doors 8pm

The California based fiddle, guitar and banjo player and ardent 78 collector Frank Fairfield sings soaring hillbilly ballads, arcane rambling songs and murder ballads delivered with that irresistible dust to digital quality. Still in his early twenties but steeped in the pre-War Americana of Mississippi, he cut his teeth as a street performer and has the raw intensity and spellbinding technique to make your hairs stand on end.

Fleet Foxes handpicked him to open for them on their 2008 US tour and he has found fans elsewhere in Grammy winning producer Chris King (Charley Patton, People Take Warning box set), Phil Alexander (Mojo) and Greil Marcus. His debut album is out now on Tompkins Square and picked up rave reviews across the board.

'A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who’s crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it.' - Greil Marcus

Myspace: www.myspace.com/frankfairfield

All tickets £7

Subject to booking fee