RTP-area local music and culture

[Dave Tilley <dave AT hoedown.org>]

taintradio.org is bringing those purveyors of melodramatic popular  
song, Hurray for the Riff-Raff to Raleigh for a show at Marsh  
Woodwinds on Sat Feb 27th at 8pm.   This trio hails from New Orleans  
and their original music is a blend of  blues, thrash and string-band  
music.  Instrumentation includes banjo, bass, accordion, guitar and  
autoharp.  Daytrotter described them as follows:  ”Hurray For The Riff  
Raff makes an odd combination of darkened folk music that contains  
full-bodied crooning, fascinating elements of the macabre and the kind  
of Americana flourishes that show up in music by contemporaries such  
as Dark Dark Dark, The Handsome Family and North Carolina’s The  
Bowerbirds. They aren’t songs of gleefulness, but they can be.”

Hurray for the Riff-Raff is celebrating the release of their second  
CD, just out last week "Young Blood Blues" - available from emusic.com

You can check out Hurray for the Riff-Raff at their websites:
http://www.hurrayfortheriffraff.com
http://www.myspace.com/hurrayfortheriffraff

The show will take place at Marsh Woodwinds - 707 North Person St.  
Raleigh, NC on Sat Feb 27 at 8pm.  Tickets are $10 and will be  
available at the door. Multi-instrumentalist Samuel Doores from New  
Orleans, will open the show.

For more info, see http://taintradio.org or email dave AT taintradio.org  
or call (919)-834-8667


thanks,

    -dave