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"To me, life has always felt like a place reverberating with all kinds of shrieking and laughing things. At some point I learned that my role as a singer was to be a storyteller, a shape shifter."
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FAUN
FABLES is Dawn McCarthy's vivid imagination come to life in song and theater,
made to explore human pathos amid an animate earth with musical & physical
storytelling forms. It has been attracting a devoted and eclectic following
since 1997 with numerous performances throughout North America, Europe, Israel,
Australia, New Zealand, Iceland and four record releases distributed worldwide
on Drag City Records:
EARLY SONG, MOTHER TWILIGHT, FAMILY ALBUM and THE TRANSIT RIDER.
Dawn McCarthy is a writer, singer and theater artist whose work is a sea of
gorgeous elemental nitty gritty; haunting melodies, breath, stomping, and natural
theatricality led by the voice, rooted in the physical body. It is a crossroads
where ancient ballad, art song, physical theater and rock music meet. Her lyrics
speak to people of all ages about things like rugged housekeeping, street kids,
growing old, sleepwalking and exiled travelers returning home.
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She was raised in Spokane, WA by two piano players
from Chicago and grew up making sounds and dances with a big family of Italian
and Irish descent. Her primary education and inspiration came from all kinds
of unorthodox and self-taught means. At home her parents played romantic, impressionistic
and folkloric melodies via Bartok and Debussy, while older siblings helped develop
her taste for rock and experimental music. In New York City, Dawn studied at
the School Of Visual Arts and New School for Social Research and cut her teeth
as a performer with several adventurous theatrical and musical groups. A solo
& musical exploration through Europe plus a fateful meeting with Oakland
based entertainer NILS
FRYKDAHL began a creative chapter in 1997 that eventually relocated her
to the thriving arts community of the Bay Area, California, where she is still
currently based.
In recent times, Dawn has been inspired by studies with Polish theater director
WLODZIEMIERZ STANIEWSKI, Action Theater artist CASSIE
TERMAN, a primitive skills anthropological workshop called ‘RABBITSTICK,'
and singers LOLE
MONTOYA, MARIANA
SADOWSKA and ROKY
ERICKSON.
