Alan Sparhawk has been HowWasTheShow's Photo of The Week before as Chicken Bone George from his band Black Eyed Snakes. This week's photo comes to us from Sara Montour of Barefootphotos.net, who snagged this shot of the Low singer/songwriter at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in Manitoba last weekend. The photo was taken Friday afternoon, July 7th at a workshop called Strange Songs No So Long hosted by Canadian singer/songwriter Hawksley Workman.
In the round robin of workshop performances, Sparhawk performed a slow, haunting song which almost seemed made up on the spot. On the surface it was a gentle reminder that even "the writers and the poets are all going to die," but in the joyous sunshine of this Canadian festival, and in the context of the rest of the workshop, the song took on a deeper meaning, reminding me that there things more terrifyingly beautiful than death: life, for example.
HowWasTheShow was on hand for the entire weekend of music and fun in Canada July 6th through 9th. I filed my report here. My colleague Lauren Knapp an account here. And Eamon McGrath, a Canadian music journalist from Edmonton who traveled 2,000 miles just to see Low, reviews their full band performance Friday night here.
Alan Sparhawk's side project, Retribution Gospel Choir plays the Uptown Bar in Minneapolis on Friday, July 21st.
See more of Sara Montour's photos from the 2006 Winnipeg Folk Fest in her Flickr set from the 2006 festival.
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