HOPE DUNBAR
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Singer-Songwriter Hope Dunbar is a pioneer of the new American prairie
style—the incarnation of Americana and Country-Folk sound staking
claim under a big sky, shouting at the north wind, digging in and
refusing to leave.
DUNBAR’s newest release, _Three Black Crows_, heralds a strong new
voice in the singer-songwriter genre. An unexpected voice of
simplicity and authority, honesty and hope. A voice that could not
come from anywhere other than the expansive land of her home. She was
born in Southern California, but traveled as a young girl, a
peripatetic childhood that landed her for six months in Paraguay. Her
parents eventually settled in Mission Viejo, California. At
university, she met and married her husband and moved with him to a
small town in Iowa, where he had been appointed to minister at a
Lutheran church. To help her adjust to these surroundings, she started
singing folk songs with a new friend, at public libraries, farmer’s
markets and fairs. They eventually settled in Utica, Nebraska, an
unlikely place for a restless artist, falling in love with the craft
of writing, but Hope is a writer with an ability to find truth in
overlooked spaces “I really enjoy the empty space,” she says.
“There’s no noise where I live in Utica that can get in the way of
what my brain wants to write about.”
Dunbar’s songs live on two planes simultaneously. One describes the
everyday routines to which we all eventually surrender. The other
zooms in on the people who move through their habitual rituals. Her
target is the sorrow from which they’ve learned to hide but can
never escape, reconciling the two with resignation.
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