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	Silverleaf Booking: Artists
		Faun Fables began in 1997, when Dawn 'the faun' McCarthy left the bands and cabarets of NYC for the wider world.
		But she also enjoys working with other artists, musical and otherwise; THE TRANSIT RIDER, a Faun Fables full length musical inspired by her years in NYC, premiered 2002 in San Francisco with a cast of thirteen.
		Faun Fables tour the world regularly, studying landscape, culture and the art of feasting with locals.
	www.silverleafbooking.com /artists_faunfables.html (175 words)

	Faun Fables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faun Fables is a band from Oakland, California.
		Faun Fables is a concept and vehicle for Dawn McCarthy, who was inspired to write the original material while traveling after leaving the New York City music scene in 1997
		The current (2006) project by Faun Fables is an ambitious performance and multimedia documentation of a song cycle entitled "The Transit Rider".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faun_Fables (299 words)

	Faun Fables Acts Out Music
		Faun Fables played to a small portion of the Oberlin population this past Monday, a select group privy to this semester’s most beguiling concert.
		Faun Fables’ new album, The Transit Rider, spurred a show which started out as a 12-person ensemble that performed in 2004 as a theater act in San Francisco.
		For every Faun Fables there are a hundred versions of The Killers, and I wish it were the other way around.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2006/05/05/arts/article9.html (910 words)

	Vampire, Suki Rae, Paula Obe, FAUN FABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now, under the auspices of Faun Fables, McCarthy and Frykdahl offer one of the most stunning discs of the year: Mother Twilight, a collection of songs inspired by McCarthy's 1997 solo trek through Europe.
		The tunes of Faun Fables also echo the mischievous mythos of the group's namesake: reed-playing Pan, the Greek god of forest and meadow, a Dionysian reveler with a lusty streak of abandon.
		The simplicity of Faun Fables' music is deceptive; it acts as a modest backdrop for the endlessly complex worlds embodied in McCarthy's every vocalization.
	www.hrmusic.com /discos/fadisc39.html (1066 words)

	CSIndy: Playing Around (November 8 - November 14, 2001)
		McCarthy created Faun Fables after she had paid her dues writing and performing for New York City circuses, bands and vaudeville acts.
		Her voice is Faun Fables' strongest instrument; her moans, howls and cries aqueous and enchanting.
		Faun Fables' performances, like their music, are semi-theatrical.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2001-11-08/playingaround.html (265 words)

	Q&A with Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables by Cynthia Mitchell - GODMAGAZINE.ORG
		QandA with Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables by Cynthia Mitchell - GODMAGAZINE.ORG
		Faun Fables will be doing our first full music theatre piece showing in San Francisco in Sept. 2002.
		She deals frankly and passionately with the troubled, riddled relations between soul/mind and flesh/mortality via themes of love, sex, motherhood and war.
	www.flamingfire.com /GodMagazine/faunfables.htm (2377 words)

	dBmagazine.com.au
		I've seen bands set up as the audience flows in and gathers but one hour after The Jade Monkey opened, the Faun Fables were still checking, tweaking and testing their equipment while CDs played intermittently in the background.
		After accepting that things don't always go to plan, the Faun Fables gave up trying to get the acoustics just right and worked with what they had.
		However, the way-out-there approach of the Faun Fables was entertaining in itself.
	www.dbmagazine.com.au /346/mr-FaunFables.shtml (359 words)

	Under the Radar - Faun Fables Review
		The album itself is a snapshot of a concept also in eternal flux: an idea, a few songs, then a musical, then still more songs, now an album, never quite finished.
		Faun Fables herself (Dawn McCarthy) has a fantastic voice, jumping from stern to breathy at will, dramatic and demanding.
		She will lull you into submission on a song like “House Carpenter,” a traditional Anglo-Saxon song, seemingly tailor-made for McCarthy’s beautiful voice, as she effortlessly trills and yodels her way through each verse.
	www.undertheradarmag.com /faunfablesreview.html (336 words)

	acidfolkreview6
		Faun Fables became also a theatre play which evolved to 13 cast members and six members in the band, adding more songs to the repertoire.
		Faun Fable’s version can impossibly be as strong, but still stands on its own.
		Another strong thing is that all aspects like the drive, coming from musicality, song-writing, from singing variation etc. are all equally strong in their parts, which makes the music very successful.
	psychedelicfolk.homestead.com /acidfolkreview6.html (3548 words)

	Faun Fables - The Transit Rider : album review
		I'd Like To Be A song cycle inspired by the sights and sounds of the New York subway system, Faun Fables' latest album has already spent a few years on the stage.
		That said, just listening to The Transit Rider provides ample motivation to catch Faun Fables on stage, as soon as the chance arises, and provides a magical experience in itself.
		The overriding impression is that Faun Fables have produced a haunting and beautiful album; one which deserves to be heard.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/faun-fables_0506.htm (629 words)

	:: Metro Pulse Online ::
		McCarthy, who is usually known by her nom de plume, Faun Fables, has spent more than a decade quietly building a body of work that merges music, storytelling, and theater.
		Predictably, many listeners have assumed that Faun Fables is McCarthy, or that Faun Fables is McCarthy’s band.
		McCarthy explains that Faun Fables is actually an amorphous title for a body of musical and theatrical work.
	www.metropulse.com /articles/2006/16_17/music.shtml (1579 words)

	RegnYouth Archives » Blog Archive » Faun Fables - Family Album
		Somewhere to the left of folk, but not as far left as filk, Oakland’s Dawn McCarthy is eking out her own niche as Faun Fables.
		McCarthy’s arresting voice is the strongest thread in Faun Fables’ material, taut but not high-strung.
		The songs are not overly hum-worthy nor do they seem radio-friendly, yet it’s clear Faun Fables is more interested in tuning in brainwaves than cluttering up airwaves.
	www.regnyouth.com /?p=3299 (313 words)

	Funprox.com article: » Faun Fables - Family Album
		Just like the German band Faun, the American Faun Fables plays folk and traditional music related songs.
		Their sound is melancholy, unpolished and lo-fi, like the dark country music from The Handsome Family in a way.
		But unlike this band Faun Fables puts a lot more suspense in their music.
	www.funprox.com /index.php/reviews/2005_09/faun-fables-family-album (189 words)

	Local Live \| San Francisco Bay Guardian
		But when the full Faun Fables ensemble took to the stage, the audience, if anything, expanded and remained rapt for the length of the hour-plus set.
		One fan in the audience told me Faun Fables' new CD made him "weep on Muni, twice!" – once with sadness and once with joy.
		Perhaps her artistry is a bit too fragmented for fans of life's sweet, simple melodies, perhaps her poetic turns are a touch too unsparing for those who prefer their allusions merely wistful, but when she makes a connection with a fan, it's for keeps.
	www.sfbg.com /38/48/x_local_live.html (662 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Faun Fables - Family Album
		Faun Fables is the project of Dawn McCarthy, with Frykdahl as an able sidekick; Family Album is an hour of weird, eclectic and often unsettling "folk" music (for lack of a better cubbyhole to stuff this into).
		Unlike another project with Frykdahl's fingerprints, Charming Hostess, McCarthy's project doesn't garner its unique status by blending an impossibly diverse set of ethnic folk musics into one; instead, McCarthy's brand of folk lives purely in its own world, a world built sturdily around her powerful, compelling voice.
		McCarthy and Frykdahl are a formidable duo here; their world might be just a little too strange for most listeners, but the more explorative may well find themselves enchanted.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=ff-fa (458 words)

	Browse by Artist: FAUN FABLES
		"This is the third recording of Faun Fables, the experimental balladry shaped by Oakland-based artist Dawn McCarthy.
		A songbook documenting the material Dawn McCarthy performed and travelled with as a soloist, leaving her work with bands and cabarets of NYC in 1997.
		It was made into a full length theater show in 2002 in San Francisco, aided by the inspiration & work of director Allen Willner and a cast of thirteen.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/faun.fables.html (343 words)

	Faun Fables - AOL Music
		Faun Fables (l-r: Nils Frykdahl, Dawn McCarthy Photo by Bridget Bell)...
		Faun Fables will also be appearing at All Tomorrows Parties April 27?29, 2007...
		Download, listen and watch Faun Fables music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/faun-fables/633123/main (114 words)

	Faun Fables, The Transit Rider, Drag City, CD
		Faun Fables, The Transit Rider, Drag City, CD Home
		Since then The Transit Rider has seen more roadways and sunsets and has enjoyed further songwriting & development by Dawn and Nils, plus collaborations with Dawn's mother Michelina Tyrie ('Earths Kiss') and a poem by her dad Will McCarthy ('I No Longer Wish To') written during his last days as a stock broker.
		This Transit Rider also incorporates into its setting songs from Zygmunt Konieczny (Taki Pejzaz/Such a Landscape), Soeur Sourire (Je Voudrais/I'd like to Be), and the Anglo Saxon traditional 'House Carpenter.'" - Faun Fables.
	www.secondlayer.co.uk /index/p2308.htm (241 words)

	Faun Fables [October 26th, 2001] [www.progweed.net]
		It was with this mentality that Greg and myself followed the recommendation to check out Faun Fables, who happened to be touring and in our area within the week.
		Needless to say, we were highly impressed by this show and were quite glad we attended.
		Check out the Faun Fables site for more info, sound clips and a schedule of upcoming shows.
	www.progweed.net /reviews/concerts/faunfables-review.html (325 words)

	faun fables, the transit rider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now I love prog rock, don’t get me wrong, and I love folk music — and when the two collide it’s always worth an interested look, but there’s a line, and when crafting a prog-folk concept album you’re skating dangerously close to it.
		Faun Fables lady Dawn McCarthy has managed to bound over that line quite happily with ‘The Transit Rider’ - the more you listen to the theatrical excesses the more you realise it the effect is intentional.
		Apparently McCarthy began working on this album back in 1994 when she was first introduced to the New York subway system, developing themes of travel, transit, seclusion and repetition and over time these thoughts evolved into writings and then eventually a theatre show.
	www.boomkat.com /item.cfm?id=21633 (306 words)

	JamBase Tickets \| Fri. May 26th, 2006 - Faun Fables - THE TRANSIT RIDER: a song cycle @ Oakland Metro - 201 Broadway, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		May 26th, 2006 - Faun Fables - THE TRANSIT RIDER: a song cycle @ Oakland Metro - 201 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607
		Faun Fables - THE TRANSIT RIDER: a song cycle
		At the turn of the century, Dawn was introduced to the complete world of the NYC subway in all its repetitious and transient glory and began writing about it.
	www.jambasetickets.com /evinfo.php?eventid=11418 (229 words)

	Slant Magazine - Music Review: Faun Fables: The Transit Rider
		aun Fables is the alter ego of Dawn McCarthy, who collaborates with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (yeah, I've never heard of them either) frontman Nils Frykdahl on preposterous avant-folk ballads of the English tradition of Donovan, Melanie, and Fairport Convention.
		As one can expect, concept albums and costumes have ensued, and the duo's newest record, The Transit Rider, is adapted from a full length theatrical performance first performed in 2002.
		Well, The Transit Rider is, according to Drag City's press release, about the "complete world of the NYC subway [and] all its repetitious and transient glory." Undeniably pretentious and silly beyond comprehension, Faun Fables' The Transit Rider is nonetheless delivered with excessive earnestness and sincerity (the liner notes quote Heidegger).
	www.slantmagazine.com /music/music_review.asp?ID=837 (338 words)

	Faun Fables - Transit Theme / The Hype Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I am applying to the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab and NYU ITP.
		This page provides information about the track Transit Theme by Faun Fables posted on the songs:illinois blog.
		If you are concerned about our listings, you can find more information here and are welcome to contact us directly.
	hype.non-standard.net /track/90761 (118 words)

	westword.com - Music - Faun Fables
		Like a troupe of wayward minstrels lost in the woods en route to Canterbury, circa 1369, Faun Fables spins a fairy-tale romance that combines pagan imagery with wildly costumed musical theater.
		As if that wasn't weird enough, Dawn "the Faun" McCarthy delivers her unsettling allegories about magical mice and bloodthirsty wolves in an unearthly vocal range of operatic wailing, tribal grunts and piercing yodels.
		Seemingly in a persistent state of childlike wonder, the native from Washington State's Spokane Valley teams up with flutist Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) for a heady Wiccan spectacle that approximates Yma Sumac grappling with the Brothers Grimm in a pastoral haze of unplugged Led Zeppelin.
	www.westword.com /Issues/2005-04-14/music/nowhearthis3.html (360 words)

	KFJC On-Line Reviews » Faun Fables - “Transit Rider, The ” - [Drag City]
		Faun Fables - “Transit Rider, The ” - [Drag City]
		Dawn of Faun Fables has one of the most beautiful voices of all time!!!
		All of the band members are very creative and talented.
	spidey.kfjc.org /index.php?p=1503 (304 words)

	Faun Fables - The Transit Rider (Drag City) - Drawer B Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Faun Fables - The Transit Rider (Drag City) - Drawer B Review
		With a controlled, cold, and distant voice, McCarthy’s cadence is slightly reminiscent of Sinead O'Connor’s but without the histrionics or the anger.
		Admittedly, I’m not an expert in mystic folk musings or paegan poetry, but this forthcoming soundtrack to McCarthy’s theatric piece, The Transit Rider, under her stage name, Faun Fables, sounds like it could have been easily employed in Marc Singer’s Beastmaster series, replete with hooded, burlap capes, torches and lots of owls.
	www.drawerb.com /reviews/1146245446.htm (290 words)

	Faun Fables - I'd Like To Be / The Hype Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Faun Fables - I'd Like To Be / The Hype Machine
		Faun Fables - I'd Like To Be Posted on May 11th, 2006 at Motel de Moka read post
		This page provides information about the track I'd Like To Be by Faun Fables posted on the Motel de Moka blog.
	hype.non-standard.net /track/101977 (133 words)

	faun - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=faun (213 words)

	Billy Nayer Show and Faun Fables Thur... - Dingleberry Lane Threadies '06 - tribe.net
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		Re: Billy Nayer Show and Faun Fables Thursady, 9/28 @ 12 Galaxies
		He used to work at the Paradise Lounge on 11th and folsom in the late 80s - early 90s I remember seeing him play gigs with Bud.E.Luv in the lounge room.
	dingleberrylane.tribe.net /thread/ea3ccb6e-71a9-4b09-8569-f9abc3feaca0 (175 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Review - Faun Fables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Family Album (Drag City) Somewhere to the left of folk, but not as far left as filk, Oakland's Dawn McCarthy is eking out her own niche as Faun Fables.
		She calls her musical hybrid "song-telling," a handy, descriptive phrase for a most unusual approach.
		The quirky nature of ballads like "Joshua" and "Old and Light" are balanced with snippets of children's voices that lend an even more fey feel to the music.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:202827 (347 words)

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