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[DID NOT ATTEND: June 28, 2024] Dakhabrakha / Native Harrow

I saw DakhaBrakha about two years ago.  I had wanted to see them for a while, but the timing was right after Russia invaded Ukraine.  I can’t believe the war is still going on.

Their music is like nothing else I’ve heard and their visually are just as compelling.  Traditional music but with contemporary elements.  It’s mesmerizing.

I have wanted to see them again and they seem to be playing around the area from time to time, but nothing ever works out.  Once again, King of Prussia is just a little too far, especially if I’d just gone out the night before.

I am still genuinely surprised they haven’t played McCarter in Princeton. It seems like a perfect combination.

Native Harrow are a folk band from Philadelphia.  They remind me a more soulful Cowboy Junkies, which is not really my thing,  Their bio says

The songs move dramatically from the opening field recording of the Brighton seaside, to Laurel Canyon-esque folk-rock, piano and rhodes tinged soul-jazz balladry, oud and harpsichord driven 60’s technicolor psychedelia, dense modernistic string quartet writing, and wide-as-the western skies panoramic pedal steel with sepia toned 12-string.

Might be nice on a summer night in an outdoor venue.