... delicious texture, gorgeous melody and harmony, new places visited, deep heartfulness, care and insight, beautiful poetry, wonderful weaving of solo and rhythm instruments and vocal rhythms! ... MEF ... a bit of a departure for Paul and Eleanore as they worked on this recording w/ a new producer (Tom Menig, who works with Alela Diane) ... here, they've reached out a bit more into a folky sort of world venue, as well as calling on the Muse for political, environmental ... and modern folk music ... influences. Joe Craven, Nina Gerber, Bill Douglass, Tom Menig, Mikail Graham, Maggie McKaig, Rob Holland and a bunch of others lend their acoustic influences to the songs ... All are original except for one, 'Ship Gonna Sail' written with their dearly departed friend and honored mentor, Utah Phillips. BIO- PAUL KAMM & ELEANORE MACDONALD PO Box 181 Nevada City, CA 95959 paulandeleanore@gmail.com 530.432.9336 Modern folk musicians Paul Kamm and Eleanore MacDonald, from Nevada City, CA., have been writing and performing original, contemporary folk music for 28 years. A blend of contemporary and traditional styles, their music is graced by exquisite harmony, compelling songwriting, deceptively simple arrangements and intricate guitar work… all embraced by great heart. They’ve been applauded throughout the US as well as overseas for the lyrical content of their songs and vocal blend…a haunting style which weaves unique harmonies into a rich tapestry of guitar work and storytelling. They are Kerrville, Telluride and Rocky Mtn New Folk award winners, to name just a few, but the real nature of their musical voice doesn’t come into focus as easily as reciting a list of these coveted prizes. The quiet way they live and work flows through their music like water, and washes over you as surely as the notes do. You get the impression that working for issues like peace and justice shouldn’t keep us from dropping everything to help a stray animal in need, and that ambition is nothing without love, because one thing follows another, one hand connected to the other. In an uncompromising yet comforting way their music is patient, like talking with someone who looks you in the eye, someone who reminds you to breathe, because these things might take a little time. Their songs are filled with stories that touch us all, and whether it’s love or politics, war and peace, old farmers, old women or the earth and our children, this music brings to life both history and today with a powerful mix of inclusion and compassion. At home in large venues like the Strawberry, Kerrville or Kate Wolf music festivals, a late night ‘in the round’ tribute to Woody Guthrie with folks they greatly admire like Jackson Browne, Eliza Gilkyson, Steve Earle and Jimmy Lafave, or in the small intimate setting of a living room house concert, Paul and Eleanore sing with the same voice. One that is personal and unguarded… a voice draped in stark and ethereal harmonies that are as welcoming as the crackling warmth of a fire. Since 1987 Paul and Eleanore have independently produced 9 albums of original music, receiving critical acclaim from all of the various trade reviewers worldwide. Music from these CDs are played on NPR, Community, College and Public radio stations the world over as well as on internet and satellite radio. They’ve been featured in Sing Out! Magazine, Air America, Democracy Now!... ’Josephine’, from the CD ‘Fool’s Paradise’, was used at a multimedia event in 2002, commemorating the events of 9/11/2001 at Ground Zero in NYC. They’ve been seen on PBS performing on a few episodes of the ‘California Heartland’ series, and have had their song ‘Calling on Love’ used in a PBS ‘Visionaries’ segment. Most recently their song, ‘The Dark Seed’ is to be featured in a upcoming documentary film by Aaron Lucich, ‘We Are What We Eat’, and their rendition of Kate Wolf’s song ‘Unfinished Life’ is included on Nina Gerber’s latest CD ‘Good Music With Good People…Live at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival’. Their newest CD, ‘From the Fire’, has just been released – May 2010 … and now Paul and Eleanore are hoping to start work on a long planned recording of mostly previously unrecorded songs written by their dear friend, the late Utah Phillips. A concert with Paul and Eleanore is a night to remember…the depth and beauty of their lyrical and harmonic mastery is filled with colour, their songwriting is stimulating, inspirational, magical, folky yet somehow all smoky jazzy and far away places too, and it might make you want to get up and move…their powerful lyrical imagery and haunting and moving harmony always in honor of their folk roots. Archived Radio Interviews: - podcast - W/ Jeffrey Callison, Sacramento’s CPR ‘INSIGHT’ program http:/www.capradio.org/programs/insight/default.aspx?showid=1632 -w/ Che Greenwood, Folk Say, KVMR Nevada City http://www.kvmr.org/programs/fs/index.html Sonicbids EPK - http://www.sonicbids.com/PaulKammandEleanoreMacDonald CDBaby - http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/PaulKammandEleanoreMacDonald Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/paulkammandeleanoremacdonald Homepage – in process - http://www.kammmac.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Paul-Kamm-and-Eleanore-MacDonald/52634676765?ref=ts “As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower livings beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” Pythagoras