Rees, Phoebe
Bring In The Light
Subtitled "Si Kahns Songs of Courage and Resistance" Phoebe is now 31 years old, and her life was strongly influenced by music. Her mother worked in a music store and she bought home clarinet, concertina, accordion, recorder and ocarina. Phoebe grew up listening to Schubert, Bob Dylan and traditional Bolivian dance music; she worked in a community arts project in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and as a volunteer director for a choir for poor children in Mumbai, India. Phoebe also drew inspiration from various Celtic, English and American folk traditions, living and playing music in the Scottish Highlands, studying classical viola in Edinburgh and a growing and passionate commitment to social justice. It was no surprise that legendary long-time organiser, American musician and brilliant songwriter Si Kahn was so impressed by her recording of his Mississippi Summer that he invited her to record her first full-length album to celebrate his 80th birthday and to carry his music forward long after he is gone. Bring In The Light was recorded and mixed at Studio Doornenburg in The Netherlands and has 14 tracks of Sis wonderful songs, boosted with Pheobes assured voice, her viola, fiddle and her piano; Janos Koolen accompanies her with banjo, guitar, accordion and bodhràn, Lucas Beukers is on acoustic bass and Sophie Hanna harmonises on vocals.