I don’t know if this is tongue-in-cheek or not, but …And You Will Know Us by Our Trail of Dead name-checks Hilary Hahn as a “related” artist for the September 25 show at Chicago’s Logan Square Auditorium. While she has collaborated outside her classical-comfort zone with Josh Ritter and Tom Brosseau, I think it’s safe to say their singer-songwriter-with-a-guitar earnestness is a few yards away from the harsher realities of …And You Will Know Us by Our Trail of Dead. UPDATE: It’s not tongue-in-cheek, I’m just behind the times. Hahn plays on the group’s Worlds Apart album, and can be seen with them here. She’s the one out in front of the monitors, with the violin.
Although that impossible-to-pronounce-ellipsis does put them squarely in contemporary-classical territory…
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