{"id":43716,"date":"2019-09-07T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=43716"},"modified":"2019-09-07T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:12:37","slug":"on-stage-halliday-lays-down-the-law-for-folk-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=43716","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Halliday lays down the law for folk fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, <\/span>Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Marion Halliday<\/p><\/div>\n

There are two acts coming to the area this weekend that are performing shows in support of their debut solo albums \u2013 but that\u2019s where the similarity ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marion Halliday plays powerful Americana music with rock influence. Alyse Vellturo, who performs as pronoun, is an indie pop singer-songwriter and one-woman band.<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 7, Halliday will be one of many top-flight talents at the Ninth Annual Haverford Music Festival (Eagle and Darby roads, Havertown,https:\/\/haverfordmusicfestival.org<\/a>). She will be performing at The Rock Coffeehouse at 3:50 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Halliday is both a solo artist and a member of the Philly-based trio Trickster Sister along with her sister Jane Halliday <\/span>(violin, banjo uke, vocals) of Louisville, Kentucky and Philadelphia native, Donna Bostock (bass\/percussion, vocals).<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, Halliday a singer\/songwriter\/guitarist, released her debut, solo album\u00a0\u201cRings Around Saturn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was released on July 1 and has gone to Number 3 on the Folk Radio charts,\u201d said Halliday, during a phone interview from her home in Philadelphia\u2019s Art Museum area.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to being a practicing lawyer who is <\/span>Head of Risk at Lincoln Financial Network, Halliday is a songstress and troubadour living in Philadelphia but still very intertwined with her Louisville, Kentucky family and musical roots. \u00a0She has been a singer her entire life, initially as a classical chorale ensemble and madrigals performer. For several years she was\u00a0lead singer of the regionally acclaimed trad Irish band, My Darling Asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was born and raised in Louisville,\u201d said Halliday. \u201cI\u2019m from a family of artists and musicians. My dad, who is almost 90, is a painter. The cover of my new album is a graphic art piece by him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy older brother is a concert pianist and my sister is in the band with me. I\u2019m lucky to have come from a family in the arts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After graduating from high school in Louisville, Halliday headed north. She got her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth University and then did her post-graduate studies at University of Virginia School of Law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Halliday worked various jobs as a lawyer in Louisville and then spent nine years as a <\/span>Title<\/span> Chief Compliance Officer at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. She also continued her career as a musician in the northwest Kentucky city.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until a few years ago that my sister and I created music together,\u201d said Halliday. \u201cI had gone through a divorce and making music was a good outlet. I joined an Irish band in Louisville called My Darling Asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen, I moved to Philly and formed a band here \u2013 The Molly Blooms. My Darling Asleep was more a trad band while The Molly Blooms were an Irish\/Celtic band. That band broke up and I started writing my own music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Halliday formed Trickster\u00a0Sister to\u00a0feature her original\u00a0music. In 2018, she was<\/span>\u00a0named \u201cOne of the Ones to Watch\u201d by the Nashville Songwriters\u2019 Association International.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, she was chosen by Ron Olesko of WFDU FM Radio\u00a0to perform\u00a0at the highly regarded NERFA (Northeast Regional Folk Alliance)\u00a0Suzi Wollenberg Folk DJ Showcase. Halliday was also runner-up for 2018\u00a0Best of Philly Live Performer (Folk\/Country Category). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve only been writing seriously for the last four or five years. I was classically trained as a singer when I was young \u2013 madrigal and ensemble. So, I was always into music from that perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first moved, I wanted to write about a number of Philly topics,\u201d said Halliday, who fused her Southern background with a Philly sensibility to create her own genre \u2013 \u201cPhilatucky Music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote <\/span>songs about the Lenape Statue in Wissahickon park, an escaped convict from Eastern State Penitentiary, the forlorn beauty of Laurel Hill Cemetery, and the revolutionary war memorial at Washington Square,\u201d said Halliday. \u201cThe first song I wrote was about the Eastern State Penitentiary.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started working on the new album, it was clear to me that it needed to be a solo album. It was easier. But Jane and Donna do play on some tracks. It took me about two years to make the album.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI worked with Jim Salamone who helped to produce the album. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at his studio Cambridge Sound in South Philadelphia.\u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRings Around Saturn,\u201d\u00a0which Halliday describes as \u201cBluegrass and bourbon-infused, women-powered, original Americana music,\u201d is an eloquently produced, thought provoking album that straddles the line between \u201creflective and beautiful\u201d and \u201cplayful and hard-driving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern-day topics and issues are beautifully woven throughout the record with tracks such as \u201cGood Things Will Come,\u201d \u201cWe Are the Change\u201d and \u201cThoughts and Prayers,\u201d (which deals with mass school shootings).<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though \u201cRings Around Saturn\u201d is a solo album, Halliday will not be a strictly solo performer at the festival in Havertown.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor my show at the festival, I\u2019ll be joined by Michelle Lynn,\u201d said Halliday. \u201cShe\u2019s a really great bass player.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The lineup for the Oakmont Field Stage includes Hedera, Rasan, In The Heyday, Skip Denenberg, Moonroof, Cabin Dogs, Emily Duff Band, Flightschool, Teddy Thompson, and headliners Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams. The Darby Road Street Stage hosts Joe Kenney Band, Serene & Salinas, Elle Gyandoh & The John Doe Band, Adam Flymo Birch and the Vershons, R\u00caVE, Brenyama, Amy Rigby, and Ryan Montbleau Band.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHHS Eagle Road Stage features Madeleine Anderson, Sergey Ryan, Lil Xay, Emmanuel Ohemeng III and Perpetual Motion, AFTYN, Valendina, Toria Daisy, and DJ JAM.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rock Coffeehouse presents Vocal Motive, Eli the Hawk, Alia, Von Roz, Julia Levitina, Frank Martin, Marion Halliday, and Guy Campo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Marion Halliday \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/ytFPtIVcpAc<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ninth Annual Haverford Music Festival will run from noon-9:30 p.m. Admission is free and voluntary donations will be accepted at the gates.<\/span><\/p>\n

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pronoun<\/p><\/div>\n

Pronoun (stylized as pronoun) is the name for the musical project of Alyse Vellturo, an American singer-songwriter and one-woman band based in Brooklyn. She is currently on tour in support of her debut album, \u201ci\u2019ll show you stronger\u201d \u2013 a tour that touches down at The Foundry at Fillmore Philadelphia (1100 Canal Street, Philadelphia, 215-309-0150, www.thefillmorephilly.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vellturo is a Boston native who attended the Berklee College of Music where she studied music production, engineering and business. After graduating she began working in the industry as a music manager and distributor before she eventually turned to making her own music.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started at Berklee, I wasn\u2019t really playing music,\u201d said Vellturo, during a phone interview Thursday afternoon from a tour stop in Long Island.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to study an instrument and ensemble, so I studied guitar. At first, I wanted to make my own music. But then I realized that I would be a small fish in a big pond.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got into production and engineering. \u00a0I studied analog and digital. A lot of mixing was done to ProTools. A semester into it, I realized recording studios were closing. So, I didn\u2019t want to be a producer\/engineer as a full-time job.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter graduating from Berklee, I got an internship in New York City. I was doing every aspect of the music business such as working with tour managers and talking with publishers. I worked for a year-and-a-half at DFW but realized there was no moving up there. So, I moved to The Orchard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Orchard is an American music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution, marketing, and sales. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy day job is still at The Orchard,\u201d said Vellturo. \u201cI work with a lot of indie labels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFour years ago, I started making my own music. I was doing it for the fun of it. At the beginning, I thought making music was cool. I wasn\u2019t planning on putting anything out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything in my life was good. Then, I went through a breakup. I wrote a whole EP and album around that. Breakups create things. I used frustration in general to help with my songwriting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy songwriting usually starts with a guitar riff or a melody. I add the lyrics and it all comes together. Writing about the breakup was the only thing that made me feel better.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom December 2015 to February 2016, I worked on making an EP \u2013 \u2018There’s No One New Around You.\u2019 It had four songs. I recorded the whole thing in my bedroom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vellturo\u2019s music has been described as indie\/synth and indie pop. Billboard named her as one of their breakout indie artists for 2019. <\/span>She is also the founder of the record label Sleep Well Records.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I finished the EP, I started playing shows in Brooklyn,\u201d said Vellturo. \u201cI did SXSW in 2016 and 2017 along with a few other festivals. Now, I keep playing shows and keep writing. I\u2019ve written a lot over the past three years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for pronoun \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/th06-MO9Abc<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The all-ages show at The Foundry, which also features Real Friends, will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $22.50.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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