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Mad Agnes (USA)

Smart, intelligent, entertaining. "Music for thinking people."
UK debut Cropredy Festival 2007

Touring 11th - 30th May 2011 - Farewell Tour - Three weeks only

Watch their 9 minute videoclip (broadband connection recommended) - or see the video on YouTube - below.
Listen to a compilation of their music (OK for dial-up connections)
See Mad Agnes at Cropredy (see it on Youtube)

Listen to Voyager; Green; Chocolate; Guardians

“...diverse repertoire, three-part harmonies as tight as jeans from the dryer...you’d be crazy not to check out Mad Agnes .” Rob Weir – The Valley Advocate, MA

Youtube Video of Mad Agnes at Cropredy

Mad Agnes is not one person, but three, and they're mad in only the most inventive way.  Margo Hennebach, Adrienne Jones and Mark Saunders stir up elements of classical and folk, cross singer/songwriter poignancy with street-theatre smarts and infuse it all with courageous harmonies, complex counterpoint and rich storytelling in a powerful live performance.  Their lyrics are intelligent, their delivery warm, and insightful. 

"Setting the standard high, Mad Agnes offers great harmonies, a sense of humor and a theatrical flair...a sure way to please your audience with a terrific show!"
Marrianne Jackson, Director, Forksville Folk Festival, PA 

The music of classically trained Hennebach has been described as “contemporary and timeless”by the Star Gazette, and “captivating” by Sing Out Magazine.  A finalist in songwriting competitions, including Kerrville and Napa Valley, Margo has a BM in Piano from Oberlin Conservatory and a masters degree in Music Therapy from the Guildhall School of Music in London.  Jones is a self-taught fingerstyle & rhythm guitarist and bassist and a finalist in four national songwriting competitions.  Of her CD release, Talking River, Dirty Linen magazine praised her “expressive ability to wrap meaning around a lyric with the simple rise or fall of a note.”  Mad Agnes also features Hartford Conservatory graduate Saunders on vocals, acoustic, electric, National steel and bass guitars.  His guitar work recalls the inventiveness of Richard Thompson, while providing "understated ballast with his voice and lead guitar--his delicate arpeggio picking...and fiery fills and runs,” says Acoustic Guitar magazine.

They've been called genre-bending -- with classical, rock and old-world backgrounds they play everything from contemporary original to madrigals, to Celtic traditionals, to harmony-driven folk pop.  They perform internationally at listening rooms and festivals including The Kerrville Folk Festival (TX), Mountain Stage New Songs Festival (WV), The Birchmere (VA), The Forksville Folk Festival, The Sellersville Theatre, Bethlehem Musikfest and Godfrey Daniels (PA), The Bitter End and the Towne Crier (NY), WFMT’s Live Stage Radio Broadcast (IL), Cedarburg Cultural Center (WI), Sunrise Civic Center Theater (FL), University of Hartford and Cheney Hall (CT), The Ark (MI), and First nights Morristown (NJ) and Worcester (MA), Cropredy Festival (UK). As one presenter once introduced them, “Together, the three of them make a great couple.”

Their third CD, Revenants, features guest artists, drummer Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull) and guitarist Jeff Pevar (Crosby, Stills, and Nash, CPR), and was mixed and mastered by four-time Emmy winner Jim Chapdelaine (Phoebe Snow, Big Al Anderson) in West Hartford, CT.  The song list represents all three members' contributions, including, for the first time, three instrumentals by Saunders (guitars, mandolin). Together the collection presents an intimate scrapbook of the band's passages and triumphs.

Here's their website, their stage plans, brochure copy and all their press photo downloads

REVIEW

Mad Agnes at Lowdham Village Hall
September 2008

Mad Agnes are three singer musicians from Connecticut who simply defy categorisation. Folk, folk rock, chant, opera, zany comedy numbers, jazzy guitar solos . . . they do the lot.

On Friday they brought their multitude of talents to Lowdham Village Hall, and won over yet another audience on this, their second tour of England. They first visited the UK last year, when they wowed audiences from village halls in the Yorkshire Dales to a crowd of 25,000 at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention.

Their visit to Lowdham came midway through their present tour, and was an ideal vehicle for the three, Margo Hennebach, Adrienne Jones and Mark Saunders. They gave an assortment of music, mostly self-written, in a peculiarly American folk style, on an assortment of guitars, electric piano and mandolin. Neither Appalachian nor West Coast, their music exuded a skilled yet homey sound that made everyone in the crowd warm to them.

Their songs had such titles as A Manic-Depressive Madrigal and Being Sad Won’t Make It Better, and they gave a view of the world that was highly reminiscent of satirist Tom Lehrer. They were performed to guitars which wove a delicate and intricate tracery of music, rather than a series of chords, and went well with their perfectly matched trained voices.

Towards the end of the evening they thanked the crowd for coming to watch someone they had never heard of. This was a needless nicety. Mad Agnes are famous already to fans of live music from Oxfordshire to the Yorkshire Dales – Frank Chester.