TEMPO Concert Hall ~ Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:00 PM ~ Next Songs of the Sea Social Sing on Thurs, Nov 12

Join singer and ballad keeper Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley for a special group sing evening lit by oil lamps and the dying light of the season. Gather to hear the old songs of monster, murder and mayhem accompanied sporadically by Harvey on TEMPO's original 1907 Emmons Howard pipe organ. At every performance Harvey teaches the audience the choruses verse by verse, so that by the end of the night the room is singing as one crew.

On all hallows the hills darken with old stories. In this witching window traditional ballads come alive — the jealous sister who drowns her kin, the revenant lover who knocks at midnight, the ship's carpenter haunted by the Demon Lover, the spectral fiddles and harps strung from bone and hair. Murder ballads and haunted aires, once whispered by the fireside, are given voice beneath the shroud of dead leaves. Forget watching a horror movie - these songs will spook you to the marrow - the perfect activity for the ghosts' corner of the year.

Kids 10 & up are welcome but parents please be aware of your own child's fear factor limit, these are very scary stories!

ABOUT THE BAND

Shinbone Alley is the old-world folk project of multi-instrumentalist and folklorist Alex Harvey, dedicated to the street ballads and sea songs of the 18th and 19th centuries — shanties, broadsheet ballads, come-all-ye's, whaling serenades, lovesick dirges, and haunted supernatural aires. Named for the legendary tavern named in the shanty "Bully in the Alley," and for the sailors' lanes of that same name in ports from Bermuda to Lower Manhattan. The project began as a duo with Jordan Shapiro and has grown into a collective with a rotating cast of musicians and yarn-spinners including Aldo Lavaggi, Jerry Bryant, Alan Short, The Jonson Girls, Brad Lail and others. Alex is an advisor to the Connecticut Sea Music and Tradition Association.

TICKETS

$15 community / $20 standard / $25 supporter
Appropriate for Kids 10 & up only, parents please use discretion. Beer, Wine and Cider bar offered.

Choose the ticket that feels right for you. All tickets are General Admission. Every option supports the artists and instructors as well as TEMPO Performing Arts Center programming.

TEMPO Performing Arts Center is a project of Kingston Music Initiative (KMI). Kingston Music Initiative is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, recognized by the IRS. Our EIN is 99-0864420. Contributions to Kingston Music Initiative are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Supernatural Ballads Social Sing with Shinbone Alley

Supernatural Ballads Social Sing with Shinbone Alley