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St Andrew's in the Square

After mounting acclaim for her five previous albums, Louisiana’s Mary Gauthier won a remarkable sweep of critical superlatives with 2010’s The Foundling, exploring her experiences of childhood abandonment and adoption. Rarely can such unanimity have prevailed between No Depression (”the most raw, brave and ultimately satisfying album I’ve heard in a very long time”) and the Sun (”one of the most brilliant and heartbreaking pieces of music you’ll hear this or any year”).

Also appearing tonight will be Transatlantic Sessions favourite Tim O’Brien. If ever there was an argument against fears that today’s roots music melting-pot tends inexorably toward homogeneity, it’s the US singer and multi-instrumentalist. Few musicians can ever have had their fingers in so many different traditions and styles – from hardcore bluegrass to Dylan rarities, Irish trad to old-time jazz and way beyond – while so vividly preserving each element’s individual character, even when newly cross-fertilised.

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