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Richard Shindell
TODAY · 7:30pm

Richard Shindell

Friday, October 16 at The Southgate House Revival - Revival Room, Cincinnati

The Southgate House Revival - Revival Room · Newport $26.38

About this event

Richard Shindell brings his folk and Americana songwriting to The Southgate House Revival - Revival Room for a Cincinnati-area performance in Newport. Originally from New York and now based in Buenos Aires, Shindell is known for narrative songs that inhabit characters, sketch vivid worlds, and move between acoustic intimacy and a wider electric palette.

Who's playing

Richard Shindell is a New York-born singer-songwriter whose work sits in the folk and Americana tradition. His background spans time in a Zen Buddhist monastery, busking in Paris, and a life split across borders, experiences reflected in songs that approach the human condition through story and character.

What to expect

Expect carefully written narrative songs framed by Shindell’s signature acoustic guitar style, with material that can range from lighthearted ballads to sharper reflections on politics, prejudice, war, religion, and people living at society’s edges. His album Careless was recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, giving its songs room for a fuller sonic range that includes more electric guitar.

Why go

For Cincinnati listeners who value songwriting as storytelling, Richard Shindell at The Southgate House Revival - Revival Room offers a close-up setting for songs built like short stories: detailed, empathetic, and attentive to the lives of complicated characters.
Price includes all applicable state and local taxes.Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery and busked in the streets of Paris. Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full- length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks---to play---as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. , "rdquo" -> The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating." During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell's songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society's fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs---veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.

Where

The Southgate House Revival - Revival Room · 111 E Sixth Street · Newport, Cincinnati OHOpen in Maps
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