Sons of Townhall

** SCOTTISH DEBUT AND ONLY CHANCE TO SEE THEM IN SCOTLAND THIS YEAR **

A Sons of Town Hall show is more than a concert, it's an immersive experience unlike any other. American songwriter/author David Berkeley and British songwriter/producer Ben Parker are the men beneath the hats in the transatlantic folk duo. They're also the stars of the hilarious radio-theatre podcast series Madmen Cross the Water.
Sons of Town Hall is creating an entirely new performance genre: Part live concept album, part performance art, the pair conjures their timeless mythic universe under the aliases Josiah Chester Jones and George Ulysses Brown, 19th-century vagabonds who travel the world in a hand-built boat to escape troubled pasts and search for adventure and love.

The Sons weave wild stories between their heartbreaking and rousing songs, taking audiences on a deeply imaginative trip every show. For fans of Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Waits, and Monty Python alike, concertgoers are uplifted and inspired, transfixed and transformed, in awe of Sons of Town Hall’s harmonies, and drunk on adventure and the tragic beauty of the human condition.
www.sonsoftownhall.com

“Nothing short of stunning” - Lisa Schwartz, Cambridge Folk Festival

"Seamless vocal harmonies, stories of sea voyages, betrayal and desolution" – The Observer

"Part balladry, part performance art, and totally cool…complete with Victorian-era costumes, sing-alongs, and meditations about the seafaring life….Think Simon & Garfunkel lost at sea, and you get a sense of the mythic world at play here." – Philadelphia Inquirer

"Son Of Town Hall are an itinerant duo, with one stock rooted in Simon & Garfunkel and the other in the Peaky Blinders era. Ben Parker and David Berkeley’s voices meet somewhere in the mid-Atlantic and it’s a thrilling combination, floating on an intimate, warm bed of acoustic guitars." - Paul Rhodes, Charles Hutch Press

Album review: "The Adventures of The Son Of Town Hall is a rewarding experience; it is a debut blessed with beauty and depth, power and grace - much like the ocean whence it has come." - Rich Barnard, Red Guitar Music