Myself and Dave Colohan join Mike and Cara Gangloff this Monday March 10th in Whelanslive. Tickets €12.50
'Southwest Virginians Mike & Cara Gangloff have been exploring the world in the last couple years, playing a personal, rural music that draws on Mike’s decades with Pelt and Black Twig Pickers and extends it into duo a capella harmonies and duets with fiddle, hurdy gurdy, sruti box and banjo for a sound that’s sometimes fierce and clattering, sometimes smooth and sweet. Expect ancient tunes learned from Appalachian masters and an improvisatory songcraft that blends deep drones with unexpected melodic and lyrical turns.'
Full details here: http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/mike-cara-gangloff/
David Colohan
Meitheal play at TUSK Festival, Newcastle this October
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Meitheal (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmɛhəl]) is the trio of Vicky Langan from Galway, David Colohan of Longford and Mike Gangloff of Virginia. All are deeply involved in esoteric musical forms of various kinds (Wölflinge, Raising Holy Sparks and Pelt respectively) but each succumbs to the irresistible pull of some kind of folk music, both through influences weighing on their aforementioned identities and via, for example, Langan’s deep involvement in the Irish Sacred Harp community and Gangloff’s fiddle and voice in old-time trio the Black Twig Pickers.
Meitheal was born earlier this year when Colohan arranged a series of solo Irish dates for Gangloff, leading to an inevitable three-way throwdown that drew from their collective well of ancient music lore and their skills as improvisors. Meitheal is still very much an embryonic entity, we fully admit – no releases, one gig under their belts, no one’s ever heard of them – but knowing them individually, combined with being blown away by the 8 minutes that appeared on Youtube means we had to have them here.
We don’t doubt that when you hear them, you’ll know why.
Meitheal
Photo by Declan Q KellyOn March 8th 2012, a solar storm was passing over the Earth. Three friends sat down to play together for the first time. A new trio, Meitheal, was borne out of charged particles and warm conversation.