Idealist and banjo player extraordinaire, Morgan O'Kane visits KEX Hostel again
Morgan O'Kane in concert at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik on Thursday night. Originally hailing from Virginia; O'Kane currently resides in Brooklyn when he is not on tour, where he sometimes plays in the subway and on the street.
The music is "to bluegrass and old timey what punk was to rock in the late seventies" (Ian Spafford / www.stirrings.org.uk) Deeply steeped in old traditions, O'Kane treats the banjo differently than you've heard it before and brings a punk sensibility to his music. Of his new song, “Shroud Of Turin,” virtuoso banjoist/songwriter/activist Morgan O'Kane says, “It's not an atheist or anti-religion song by any means. It's actually very spiritual. It's about how faith has twisted minds.”
O'Kane goes on to tell the story of a West Virginia town, not far from where he grew up (Charlottesville, VA- he lives in NYC now), ravaged by an unusual epidemic of cancer, allegedly brought on by the strip mining activities of a handful of local corporations.
The townspeople have been hoodwinked, the companies using their faith as a conduit, that their passivity in the matter is virtuous in the Eyes of the Beholder. “Shroud Of Turin” is just one of the songs on his latest, and 3rd full-length album, The One They Call The Wind due out on March 25th on Dollartone Records.
The concert starts at 8 pm and admission is free.
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