COLIN HAY (at Pantages) Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:30 PM 10:30 PM
19:30 22:30 Pantages Theatre 710 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN,
55403 United States (map) Google Calendar ICS The Cedar Presents COLIN
HAY (at Pantages) Thursday, March 26th, 2020 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show:
7:30 PM All Ages Seated Show General Admission: $43, $53, $63 VIP:
$100 This event will take place at Pantages Theatre, 710 Hennepin Ave,
Minneapolis, MN 55402. This is an all ages show. This is a tiered
seating show. To request reserved seating or other access
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TICKETS Hay is more than a master musician; he is a master storyteller
… There’s more to Hay than the Grammy-winning, world-beating rock
band of yesteryear. These days, there is no pretention. There is just
the music, stripped to its primal form. And the stories. Don’t
forget the stories — Brisbane Times ABOUT COLIN HAY Fierce Mercy is
an epic, cinematic step forward from singer-songwriter Colin Hay, most
beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows but most widely
known for being an influential and celebrated frontman. The range of
artists who have chosen to cite him as a muse or who have found
themselves on stage with him in the past year spans the genre
landscape from heavy metal, to Americana, to Cuban rhythms and beyond.
His inclusion as a playlist favorite from the likes of Metallica to
The Lumineers reflects his continuing relevance and broad appeal.
Recorded in both Los Angeles and Nashville and mixed by Vance Powell
(Chris Stapleton, Jack White) and Gordon Hammond (Buddy Miller, Don
Williams), Fierce Mercy explores themes of love and loss, mortality,
and even the odd UFO sighting, but always with the singular
perspective and insightful wit that define Hay’s work. He has
created a new classic in his impressive repertoire (this is his 13th
solo release), using a palette of pop songcraft, Americana flourishes,
and soundtrack-ready strings. Fierce Mercy is animated by its pensive,
honest, and impassioned lyrics, and, Hay adds, by a sense of urgency
felt deeply in the song “The Last to Know,” which introduces the
album’s title concept of “fierce mercy.” “When you’re in
your 20s, you think you’ve got all the time in the world,” Hay
said. “You get older, and you go through a quickening. Everything
seems to get faster.” Using his gift for expressing struggle in a
way that resonates with a wide variety of people, he compares this to
the messages mankind is getting on a global level: “With the
changing weather patterns, or the polar ice caps melting, we’re
getting all of these warnings, and a lot of them are incredibly
fierce. But they still feel somewhat merciful — they’re not
destroying us totally. We’re all being told, ‘Listen, you can
still maybe address this, and it won’t get to the point where I have
to take you all out. You’ve still got a shot.’” Ten of the
album’s 13 stellar compositions were collaborations with Michael
Georgiades, who contributed to Hay’s previous sets Next Year People
(2015) Gathering Mercury (2011) and American Sunshine (2009). The pair
co-wrote two of the album’s clear stand-outs, the pop vocal ballad
“A Thousand Million Reasons” and the Americana leaning “Come
Tumblin’ Down.” “Michael Georgiades is my secret weapon but I
guess now with this album it’s not a secret anymore,” Hay jokes.
Some of the songs are deeply personal: “She Was the Love of Mine,”
is an elegy for the singer’s mother, who died three years ago. Some
are novelistic: “Frozen Fields of Snow” recounts the story of a
war veteran returning to his childhood home after outliving the other
members of his unhappy family. “Sometimes lyrical ideas will come
into your head, so you follow them and see where they go,” Hay says.
Largely recorded in Topanga with Hay’s wife, Cecilia Noël and
Hay’s regular accompanists — bassist Yosmel Montejo, drummer
Charlie Paxson, keyboardists Fred Kron and Jeff Babko, and
guitarist/tres player San Miguel Perez— Fierce Mercy was completed
in sessions at Compass Sound Studio in Nashville with Compass Records
principal Garry West at the helm, who also contributed bass on a few
cuts. Hay says, “Garry is always trying to get me to Nashville to do
some recording, to get me out of the comfort zone of my own studio —
get me out of my lair! So I went to Nashville and we recorded the
strings with a nine-piece section, and he introduced me to some
players that he loves, who added another fantastic layer to the
album.” The Nashville players include guitarists Audley Freed
(Sheryl Crow, the Black Crowes, the Dixie Chicks) and Doug Lancio
(John Hiatt), pedal steel guitarist and organist Jim Hoke (Iris
Dement, Don Henley, Darius Rucker) and Compass co-founder Alison Brown
(banjo). Though many music fans will be glad to see the end of 2016,
it was something of a breakout year for this career artist that
included a three-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe; performances on The
Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and ABC’s
Greatest Hits; sharing the stage with Of Monsters and Men, Milk Carton
Kids, Choir Choir Choir!, Kings of Leon; being publicly cited as an
influence by artists as distinct as James Hetfield of Metallica,
Jeremiah Fraites of The Lumineers, Troy Sanders of Mastodon, and The
Infamous Stringdusters; as well as the completion of a documentary
film about his career entitled Waiting for My Real Life, named for one
of his best known solo recordings. Now finding himself in the
unprecedented place of having both ’80s fame and indie credibility,
it’s possible that Hay has delivered the defining album of his solo
career. VISIT COLIN HAY’S WEBSITE Colin Hay performing “I Just
Don’t Think I’ll Get Over You” courtesy of eTown’s YouTube
channel. Posted in March 2020 Tagged Global , Rock and Blues , Pop
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