Event

Kyle Alden, CD Release Show

Kyle Alden is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter/guitarist best known for his award winning folk music settings of W.B. Yeats' poetry. With roots in the San Francisco Irish music community, Kyle has played guitar accompaniment for top Irish musicians (including Randal Bays, Athena Tergis, Todd Denman, Tommy Peoples, Gearoid O'hAllmhurain and Paddy Keenan) in concerts, dances and sessions, performing on stages from Palm Springs to Redding, from Berkeley to Honolulu.

Kyle Alden's new CD, "Down In The West, Vol. I", is a collection of songs evoking the west coasts of the U.S. and of Ireland through a series of loosely connected but interlocking stories--a lone fisherman's twilight chance meeting and a boat plying the waters of the Alaska gold rush, among others. Rendered in the appealing acoustic/Americana style of "Songs From Yeats' Bee-Loud Glade", Kyle's highly praised 2011 CD, "Down In The West" features songs based on poems by W.B. Yeats, Robert Burns and William Blake, plus two originals and two covers (by Richard Thompson and Fred Neil).

For this show, Kyle will be joined by Robert Powell on guitars, pedal steel guitar, and vocals; and Paul Eastburn on bass.