Past show:

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When:	Tue. February 14, 2012 @ 8:30pm
Venue:	Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC, Canada
Location:	4873 St. Laurent
Cost:	$9 at the door or online

Molly Sweeney
Diane Cluck

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:30pm

Molly Sweeney met future friends and collaborators while working at a music venue in the heart of Montreal’s indie scene and playing the coffeehouse circuit, including composer Sam Shalabi, who recruited her to appear on his 2009 Land of Kush album Against the Day. She collaborated with Shalabi on a number of soundtracks and live performances, and sang the title track from Land of Kush’s 2010 album Monogamy.

Molly has appeared with Land of Kush in three other incarnations both on record and onstage, performing two years at Pop Montreal, Suoni per il Popolo, and at the FIMAV festival in Victoriaville. Her multi-octave performances with Land of Kush were consistently singled out for critical praise, with Brainwashed.com describing her “smoky vocals” on the 60s spy-theme number Bilocations as “without doubt the centrepiece of Against the Day,” and Strangeglue.com comparing her to “a young Shirley Bassey, alternating between fluttering vulnerability, mournful devotion and empowered passion.”

As a solo artist, Molly has shared the stage with a diverse slate of musicians including White Magic, Elfin Saddle, Josephine Foster, Scout Niblett, MV and EE, Simon Finn, Matana Roberts and Sally Seltmann. In 2010 she assembled a band to record her debut album, Gold Rings and Fur Pelts.


Diane Cluck has been performing her original brand of intuitive folk around New York City and the wider world since 2000. Her songs have been noted for their “irregular, or even cellular, logic” (Other Music), her singing compared to “the broken coo of an outraged owl or howling bark of a horny dove” (Voodoo-Eros). Her self-taught guitar style, influenced by years of playing classical piano, has been described by The Village Voice as “brilliant” and “idiosyncratic.”

Diane’s six home-recorded albums have received international distribution and acclaim; songs from “Oh Vanille / ova nil” appeared in the film “Margot at The Wedding” and the U.K. television series, “Skins.” She has toured both the U.S. and Europe, and often works with textural, jazz-inspired drummer Anders Griffen. Past collaborators include CocoRosie, Jeffrey Lewis and André Herman Düne. Known for oblique vocal harmonies on recording, her live show focuses on singing as a healing, textural experience, leaving space in which listeners may wander, ponder or simply be.

In March 2012, Diane will launch Song-of-the-Week--a fan-funded, subscription-based project through her website, in which she will write, record and deliver a new song to subscribers each week for a period of six months.

Diane's trips to Canada are relatively infrequent; please come out and say 'hello'--en anglais ou française !


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