{"id":4059,"date":"2012-03-07T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:33:54","slug":"indie-folk-duo-the-civil-wars-play-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/03\/indie-folk-duo-the-civil-wars-play-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIE-FOLK DUO THE CIVIL WARS PLAY BELFAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On Sunday the 28<sup>th<\/sup> October 2012 The Civil Wars will play the Mandela Hall, Belfast as part of Open House Concerts.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/civil-wars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4060\" title=\"civil wars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/civil-wars.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Civil Wars\u2019 Joy Williams and John Paul White had a chance meeting a year and a half ago and something magical started.\u00a0 Since releasing their debut album \u2018Barton Hollow\u2019, the Indie-folk\/Americana duo have won two Grammy awards (\u2018Best Folk Album\u2019 and \u2018Best Country Due\/Group Performance\u2019), sold out London\u2019s Union Chapel (via word of mouth alone) and given a breathtaking debut performance on Later With Jools Holland.<\/p>\n<p>Their music fuses elements of folk, country and bluegrass with songs exploring the conflicts that arise in relationships.\u00a0 In it\u2019s entirety \u2018Barton Hollow\u2019 flows, telling a story and you\u2019re lifted up to join their journey.\u00a0 Williams&#8217; tone, likened to Alison Krauss, is perfectly complimented by White and the music very much feels like it has its roots, in the roots music sound.\u00a0\u00a0 The music is modest, minimalist, and their bare-bones live arrangements need no fleshing out.\u00a0 It\u2019s in their haunting harmonies that this duo transcend.<\/p>\n<p>Along with their Europe and US tour, the duo have collaborated with T Bone Burnett on the soulful score for Finding North (a documentary investigating hunger experienced by millions of people across America)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2026they make my heart hurt but make it a bit stronger at the same time too\u2019 Adele<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2026through bands such as The Civil Wars, a new music industry is born\u2019 Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a317 available from <a href=\"https:\/\/openhouseconcerts.ticketsolve.com\/shows\/126523454\/events\">https:\/\/openhouseconcerts.ticketsolve.com\/shows\/126523454\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday the 28th October 2012 The Civil Wars will play the Mandela Hall, Belfast as part of Open House Concerts. Civil Wars\u2019 Joy Williams and John Paul White had a chance meeting a year and a half ago and something magical started.\u00a0 Since releasing their debut album \u2018Barton Hollow\u2019, the Indie-folk\/Americana duo have won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/03\/indie-folk-duo-the-civil-wars-play-belfast\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}