A spooky neo-vaudeville style show, the first of two showcases from Dark Songs 2010!
The background: You may remember that this past June I was a part of the wonderful Steel Bridge Festival Song Festival. Well those folks are doing it again, this time with a dark twist, in the annual “Dark Songs” week of collaborative songwriting, recording, and night time performances in celebration of Halloween.
Sturgeon Bay’s famed Holiday Music Motel will once again host a mixture of local and worldwide talent will fuel the event, including Door County's Purgatory Hill, Abnormal Cattle, and Jeanne Kuhns, along with imports James Hall, and Geri X, Kim Maning, and Johnny Lowebow, to name just a few.
Throughout the last week of October, the motel will be filled, half with invited songwriters and half with paying guests. Songs written during the week will be recorded in the motel's in-house studio by world-class engineers Billy Tripplet (Prince, James Brown, etc.) and Steve Hamilton. The second disc in the motel's "Holiday Series" (Dark Songs For Halloween Vol.2) will be produced on-site.
Each evening, the songwriters will form teams to collaboratively write songs, then document them in the Holiday Music Motel studio. The songs will debut in two special Halloween weekend shows, Friday night at The Ladder House, and Saturday night at Cherry Lanes.
As in Steel Bridge SongFest's Construction Zone, songwriters are challenged to write around a theme. For this event, the theme is “Dark Songs for Halloween.” According to pat mAcdonald, creator of te event, "The theme is flexible. Morbid is okay, dark humor even better."
only $5 Age limit: All ages