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Midway Fair / About This Artist

Artist Details and Stats:

Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Website: www.MidwayFair.org

Sounds Like: The Waterboys, Josh Ritter, Richard Thompson - RT, Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits, Tom Waits

Genre: Folk

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Folk charts for Baltimore, MD
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Biography:

Pretty music about ugly things.

“Reminds me a lot of Fairport Convention [...] The playing and craft are exquisite.“ ~Jon Worley, Aid & Abet April 2011.

Like a group of minstrels found electric guitars and wrote an album over the course of 500 years. [...] Bottom line: For those that like The Incredible String Band and The Band, Midway Fair is the underdog with an album of powerful, sincere, and timeless songs.

~John Powell, www.Angelica-Music.com, July 18, 2011

Press:

“On their latest EP Most Distant Star, the band has grown into its sound quite a bit: the influences are still there, but they’re much tighter wound around each other. The result is a sharp four-song outing … If you’re looking for a fun pick-me-up today, look to Most Distant Star.”
Stephen Carradini - Independent Clauses

“Midway Fair’s folk inspiration spans centuries and continents [...] Pulls off American folk, English folk, American roots-rock with aplomb.”
Stephen Carradini - Independent Clauses

“Really, nothing on this album is less than good, most of it is great, and I’ve found that it gets better with repeated listenings.”
Jason - To Eleven

"Reminds me a lot of Fairport Convention [...] The playing and craft are exquisite.” (Recommended release.)
Jon Worley - Aid & Abet

“Midway Fair has created an album that invites you to delve deeper with every listen and enjoy the beautiful soundtrack to life that they have poured their souls into creating.”
Aaron Binder - The Wordbird Says

"Edward Cain" ends up as the album's prime piece, as Patton's story-telling again takes center-stage and Midway Fair does a superb job of creating a story within the story thanks to movie-score like music to accentuate Patton's prose-like verse. The two instrumental tracks on the album are short, but spectacular, highlighting the band as more than just verbal story-tellers . . . Patience is a virtue, and the waiting is worth it on this Midway Fair album.
Ben Thompson - Sonic Disonance

"Catchy and thoughtful folk rock tunes. [...] There's plenty here for people that like a good guitar or piano solo, but the focus is most definitely on the top-notch lyrics."
Jack Hunter - Franklin Weekly (VA)