"Cheshire Moon is a fanciful melding of trickster bird Lizzie Crowe and mad hatter Eric Coleman.
"These two-time Pegasus Award recipients are part of the growing music genre known as MythPunk, bringing old gods and folk tales into modern day, and bringing faerie tale princesses into the light of dark magic.
"They weave journeys of song and story, bringing their listeners along for the ride. Care to come along?"
- from their Facebook page
"Cheshire Moon is Lizzie Crowe and Eric Coleman and includes the occasional wandering fiddler such as former member Susan Weiner. The band started when Eric wrote music that didn't fit either his solo act or his then band Toyboat. He heard Lizzie sing in a filk circle one night at Windycon, knew she had the voice he was looking for, and the duo began...
"Their music falls firmly in what Catherynne M. Valente, S.J. Tucker and others refer to as Mythpunk."
- from their entry in the Pegasus Awards website
"Lizzie Crowe always considered herself a poet and a musician. But a performer? Not until Eric Coleman persuaded her to join him on stage during a performance.
"It was at the 2010 Capricon, a Chicago sci-fi convention. Coleman, a poet and musician himself, wanted a new voice for a project he was starting—something different than the hard rock sound of his last band. And after hearing Crowe sing at Windycon, another Illinoisan sci-fi con, he knew she was the one.
“I just heard this voice,” he said. “This amazing voice, and there’s the singer for the band.”
"It took several months of convincing, though, to make anything happen. He finally got Crowe on stage at Capricon. The duo played two songs. Crowe was nervous the whole time. 'I was shaking like a leaf in the wind,' she said, mimicking her trembling performance. 'The vibrato was effective. Not on purpose, but it was effective.'
"She might have been even more nervous if she had known what was to come of the whole thing—namely, a husband and a new band, Cheshire Moon. Even more nerve-racking, Coleman and Crowe decided their new group wouldn’t play something mainstream like punk or country."
- from the post, "Over the (Cheshire) Moon", by Sydney Schulte on the Urban Plains website
Lineup:
Vocals & Violin - Lizzie Crowe
Guitars & Voices - Eric Coleman
Bass - Jared Coleman
Drums - Gustavo A. Rodriguez Diaz
Recorded, produced and mastered by Donna Miller at the Record Mill in Ames.
Fallen Angel Studio & Production
Home page:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/cheshiremoonmusic/
BandCamp:
https://cheshiremoon.bandcamp.com/
To download the podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode52/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2052_.mp3
Labels: 2010s, 2017, acoustic, Ames, Ames area, Cheshire Moon (band), Ep 052, Eric Coleman, folk music,Ghost Train (song), Gustavo A Rodriguez Diaz, Halloween, Halloween 2017, Jared Coleman, Lizzie Crowe,MythPunk
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