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Neptune's Car and Hiroya Tsukamoto
After Holly Hanson wrote Lighthouse Keeper to help her boys with homeschool lessons, she decided they should live in a lighthouse. For an entire week, they were the keepers of an island lighthouse off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Steve Hayes is the other half of this personable Americana duo, contributing his own well-crafted songs, as well as some damn good guitar work. They offer music in a down-to-earth style that is so good the prestigious Great American Song Contest called their Fly Fishing the Big Hole . . . vivid, focused and engaging, and added, Its a pleasure to hear songs of this caliber.
Hollys light soprano blends perfectly with Steves warm tenor. Vibrant lyrics and compelling melodies nestle in inviting arrangements, telling us stories rich in detail, from a miners life in A Blue Sky Turned to Rust, to Emily Dickinson, told with lyrics as beautiful as the poets work. Saugerties, New York uses this charming town as the backdrop to a romantic weekend at a lighthouse where you have to time your arrival so the tides will be out. The title cut of their most recent release, The 45th Parallel, is an engaging road song. With a laid-back feel of guitars, bass, and harmonies, you can envision that broken white line slip by as they sing: The moon it glows like embers in the branches of the pines / In this small town in September on this parallel line. The 45th Parallel is their third album. They are currently composing songs for their fourth.
Their unique name comes from the true story of a clipper ship captained by Mary Patten. In 1857, despite being pregnant, caring for her sick husband, and fighting off mutiny from the first mate, Mary successfully navigated the ship, Neptunes Car, around Cape Horn to San Francisco.
Steve comes from a musical family, from a grandfather who played guitar, banjo, and ukulele, to his brother, a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. Hes an award-winning guitar player who can play just about anything with strings; from his first gig at age thirteen, to his ten-year association with Holly, hes played all kinds of music including rock, country, jazz, funk, blues, and, of course, folk. Holly played music all through school, then took a twenty-year hiatus to raise her kids. She started writing music for her childrens lessons In the Blue Room (Letters from the Road), grew out of a lesson about the constellations. After a successful open mike appearance, she jumped back into performing. You can hear several influences in Steve and Hollys music, from vivid story songs like John Prines, to intricate guitar work inspired by Tony Rice. Whether theyre playing an intimate house concert or on the main stage at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, youll love their welcoming presence and song variety. Theyve shared the stage with Bill Staines, Anne Hills, Archie Fisher, and many others. Their songs have charted on the Folk-DJ list in 2015, The 45th Parallel was number twenty on the CD chart; quite impressive when you realize DJs receive hundreds of CDs a year. Public radios popular CarTalk has featured their songs three times.
If youre looking for watertight harmonies, tasty guitar, and solid songs, look no further than Neptunes Car. You might want to check the nearest lighthouse, too.
Hiroya Tsukamoto is a one of a kind composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He began playing the five-string banjo when he was thirteen, and took up the guitar shortly after. In 1994, Hiroya entered The Osaka University and while at college in Japan, Hiroya was introduced to a musical and social movement in South America called Nueva Cancion headed by musical legends such as Victor Jara and Violeta Parra.
In 2000, Hiroya received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and came to the United States. He is also the recipient of the Professional Music Achievement Award. Hiroya completed a debut album entitiled The Other Side of the World with his band INTEROCEANICO and released in 2004. His composition entitled El Otro Lado del Mundo was nominated as the finalist of The USA Songwriting Competition 2004 and Samba de Siempre in 2005, also Seventh Night is the finalist of International Acoustic Music Award in 2006. Hiroya released his second album entitled Confluencia in 2006 and the third albumWhere the River Shines in 2008.
Hiroya has been leading concerts with his group including several appearances at Blue Note in New York and he performed with Esperanza Spalding, Marta Gomez, Kendrick Scott(The Crusadors), Pete Kennedy(The Kennedys) and Dave Maxwell(Muddy Waters Band).
Hiroyas recent album is Heartland which was released in August 2012 from 333discs. In October 2012, Hiroya did four days live performances on Japan Public TV(NHK) program El Mundo.
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LocationTrinity House Theatre (View)
38840 West Six Mile
Livonia, MI 48152
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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