Faun Fables / Brian Dewan / Liam Singer
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 (EDT)
07:30PM - 10:00PM
Troubadours of animist, otherworldly folk music since 1998, FAUN FABLES are known for exquisite, visceral adventures in song and live performance. Dawn McCarthy's writing and voice (which THE NEW YORKER described as “one of the more compelling instruments in contemporary music") opens hearts and minds with a whisper to a rallying battle cry into her mythical world, animated by the adventurous musicality and vocals of partner Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum). FAUN FABLES have been touring the club, theater, grass roots and festival circuits of North America and Europe since 1998, and will be releasing their eighth record on DRAG CITY RECORDS in 2024.
https://www.dragcity.com/artists/faun-fables
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A strikingly independent and original talent, Brian Dewan blends whimsy tradition and a subversive sense of humor into his many projects, which include (and sometimes combine) music, artwork, and furniture-making. A resident of Catskill, Dewan plays an orchestra's worth of quirky instruments, including the autoharp, accordion, Moog, and theremin -- as well as guitar and organ -- but his signature instrument is the electric zither, which he built in 1989 from pieces of an electric guitar and a harpsichord. With its eight humbucker pickups and 88 strings, it resembles an overgrown autoharp, and is the key to Dewan's avant yet approachable folk-rock.
Along with writing for and playing with the Blue Man Group, Dewan collaborated with artists like the Sixths, Drink Me, Brian Woodbury, Laura Cantrell, and most notably cousin Leon Dewan, with whom he created Dewanatron, a project which revolves around the duo's homemade, custom cabinetry synthesizers. He has also worked with his good friends They Might Be Giants several times. As a visual artist, Dewan designed artwork for David Byrne's Uh-Oh, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and the Music Tapes' First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad, among others. He also makes I-Can-See Filmstrips, which satirize the authoritarian nature of educational films, giving his shows a multimedia dimension.
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A strikingly independent and original talent, Brian Dewan blends whimsy tradition and a subversive sense of humor into his many projects, which include (and sometimes combine) music, artwork, and furniture-making. A resident of Catskill, Dewan plays an orchestra's worth of quirky instruments, including the autoharp, accordion, Moog, and theremin -- as well as guitar and organ -- but his signature instrument is the electric zither, which he built in 1989 from pieces of an electric guitar and a harpsichord. With its eight humbucker pickups and 88 strings, it resembles an overgrown autoharp, and is the key to Dewan's avant yet approachable folk-rock.
Along with writing for and playing with the Blue Man Group, Dewan collaborated with artists like the Sixths, Drink Me, Brian Woodbury, Laura Cantrell, and most notably cousin Leon Dewan, with whom he created Dewanatron, a project which revolves around the duo's homemade, custom cabinetry synthesizers. He has also worked with his good friends They Might Be Giants several times. As a visual artist, Dewan designed artwork for David Byrne's Uh-Oh, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and the Music Tapes' First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad, among others. He also makes I-Can-See Filmstrips, which satirize the authoritarian nature of educational films, giving his shows a multimedia dimension.