The Hanging Stars

Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars join forces with the album "Dreams" coming out this summer on Loose Music. The Canadian folk singer renowned for her purity of voice and composer of the ever-fresh ’Morning Dew’; once at the heart of Greenwich Village heyday when she sang at Gerdes Folk City with the likes of Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan. The UK’s premier purveyors of Cosmic Americana riding a wave of creativity and acclaim, with two successive classic albums Hollow Heart and On A Golden Shore. The spry octogenarian and the psychedelic cowboys proved a match ripe to be made. Since Bonnie’s reemergence, at Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown, she’d been interacting with a host of London musicians, but when the Stars came onto her horizon she sensed she’d found the perfect accompanists for her new compositions. With no concrete plan they worked up a few songs, then went into Sean Read’s Famous Times to see what might happen. What might happen is now a forthcoming album with some new titles, notably the autobiographical ‘Dreams’ giving the lie to ‘Morning Dew’s finality, and opening up the future that former song closed down, an older favourite ‘Stay With Me Tonight’, and a revisit to Dino Valenti’s 60s anthem ‘Get Together’. A select number of dates in the UK and Sweden have been announced: 18/05: Oxford, UK - Wood Festival 10/07: Norwich, UK - Norwich Arts Centre 12/07:London, UK - Theatreship (Broadside Hacks Folk Club) 19/07: Löderop, SWE - Solhällan 20/07: Malmö, SWE - Pildammsparken 23/08: Stanford Hall, UK - The Long Road