Cal Folger Day

“A guitarist and chanteuse with jazz leanings, whose vocal control and onstage presence commands attention.” The New Yorker

Cal Folger Day is an American songwriter and performer now based in Dublin. EP Adornament was released in February 2015 on cassette/digital by Reeks of Effort (UK)/Trout Records (IE).

As with her first EP Drom-d'reau (2013), the rudiments of Adornament were recorded on an 8-track in Woodstock, NY. Those analog frameworks were then frankensteined to vocal takes captured in Brooklyn and Dublin. The sound is both direct and lush, with violins, drum machines, guitars, wurlitzer, big and little voices. "There is a sense of self and personality to the music... Adornament is work of subtle and considered songwriting" (The Last Mixed Tape).

The first track Homez-a-Place has been praised as a "minimalist masterstroke" (The Thin Air) and "a genuine psych-folk gem" (Pancakes & Whiskey).

With an early focus on medieval vocal music, Cal performed her first original songs as a student in the U.K. In 2012 she was a member of Rayvon Browne, a “charming, torchy, lo-fi” (LucidCulture) project with songwriter Morgan Heringer and bassist Joel Kruzic, releasing two EPs that captured “the sound of a talented act confidently presenting its quirky tunes as they are” (Wavemaker).

For two years Cal hosted the weekly open stage at A Gathering of the Tribes on the Lower East Side. She produces chapbooks and has been a featured artist at the Dublin, Brooklyn, and DC zine fests. She recently directed a 12-person orchestra and chorus to perform 6 Children's Choruses by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.

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