Music News - New single for Rachel Dawick 'Biddy of the Buller'
29 August 2014 - 0 Comments
Kiwi songwriter Rachel Dawick is pleased to announce the release of her new single Biddy of the Buller on 1st September from her forthcoming double album The Boundary Riders – NZ release date September 19th.
The new lively country single Biddy of the Buller takes the listener on a visual journey through the life of goldminer Bridget Goodwin as she sits smoking her clay pipe confessing her past sins.
Recorded live in Katikati with Paul Hoggard, the single features Rachel Dawick on vocals and guitar, Jon Sanders on ukelele, Andy Laking on Double Bass, Dave Khan on violin and Chris Koole on percussion.
“Biddy of the Buller that is Bridget Goodwin” says Rachel, “is one of the six women who lived in NZ in the 1800s whose journeys are followed through the course of the show album. Biddy was a four-foot, pipe smoking goldminer who lived with two men in a shack near Lyell along the Buller River. She was a tough character working and living alongside two men in water up to her hips, panning for gold every day. She defied the notion of what a woman in Victorian society should be like trying to survive in a newly settled colony in a man’s world. She was a generous, whisky loving, hard working, Irish born woman whose way of life helped paved the way for women in NZ to gain the vote on the 19th September in 1893.”
The forthcoming double album The Boundary Riders and the accompanying 52 page book is a collection of musical tales told through the perspective of a woman following her own journey discovering these hidden voices and bringing their remarkable lives into the public eye.
The release is celebrated with a free presentation of the journey at Auckland’s Central City Library on September 19th at 5.30pm and followed by the premiere performance of The Boundary Riders Show with full band at The Vic Theatre in Devonport on the 2nd October as part of the Auckland Heritage Festival. Tickets $25/20 are available to purchase @ http://www.thevic.co.nz/
The single Biddy of the Buller will be available via Amplifier, Bandcamp and iTunes on the 1st September 2014.
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