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Gwen Knighton : Box of Fairies
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This is not your mother's harp music. Versatile wire harp style and driving vocals produce lyrical and sometimes off beat views of lives, loves, and the costs of "happily ever after."
Genre: Folk: Modern Folk
Release Date: 2002
Box of Fairies Record Label: Bedlam House
  • Buy CD - $13.00
Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Common Land 4:55 Album Only
Ghosts 3:06 Album Only
My Fairy Tale 6:18 Album Only
Love Song for a Friend 4:04 Album Only
Joan of Arc 5:56 Album Only
Cinderella Sleeps 5:06 Album Only
Free Fall 4:07 Album Only
Stepchild 5:54 Album Only
Night Shuttle 4:27 Album Only
Gwen's Lullabye to Ygerna 4:16 Album Only
Last Run 6:56 Album Only
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Album Notes

Gwen Knighton is currently best known as the harper with the Atlanta band Three Weird Sisters, but she has a repertoire and a solo style all her own.

Gwen is a past national title winner in the Scottish Harp Society of America's Journeyman division. In recent competitions she has placed as high as fourth in the SHSA's Master level.

Gwen's musical background runs the gamut from classical vocal training, arranging, harmony, conducting and theory classes to her lifelong fascination for traditional music and special love for murder ballads.

In 2005, Gwen relocated to the United Kingdom and now makes her home in London with her family. She also has a park for a front garden, and is twenty minutes away by bus or train from both an 8,000 year old forest and Central London. It's a great life.

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REVIEWS

Harp sparkle
author: howeird
I went to Gwen's concert at Consonance (filk convention) near San Francisco and ordered the CD as soon as I got home. You will be amazed at the harpistry on this CD, but it is even more amazing to see her magic in concert. As the liner notes say, it's as if a box of fairies is hidden somewhere on the instrument. While you're being dazzled by the harp, don't forget to listen to the words. Some of the tracks are clever take-offs, while others are more traditional minstrel ballads. Cinderella Sleeps is one to listen to closely. Contrary to the info here on CDBaby, Gwen know lives & works in the UK.
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Great album! Interesting songs, lovely harp, wonderful voice!
author: Mary Ellen Wessels
This is definitely *not* just another newagy harp album! Gwen's playing is beautiful as is her voice, but the songwriting is what really sets this album apart. Her lyrics will make you think, make you laugh, maybe even make you squirm a little. I find myself listening to this album over and over and hearing something new each time. -- Highly recommended!
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Amazing! We want More!
author: natasia kith
This album is fantastic. I listened to it just before work one night, and "Last Run" ran through my head all night. If you've ever played Shadowrun, you *must* hear that song.
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