The Deep Dark Woods over for Parkenfestivalen next summer

Originally from Saskatchewan and now based on the east coast of Canada, The Deep Dark Woods take up a deep tradition of forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Celtic folksongs to country blues, John Fahey to Shirley Collins. Lush and devastating, Ryan Boldt’s gothic surrealism is stark in detail and full of emotion, a murder balladeer for our time.

On Changing Faces, their latest release, you will be surprised by how gradual yet complete a turn The Deep Dark Woods have made from cabin cozy jam band to pan-Atlantic folk revivalist collective. Boldt’s delicate melodies and metallic-stringed bite rattle centuries-old folkloric ghosts and personal demons alike. The Deep Dark Woods, a band with few fixed members, is a vessel for Boldt, keyboard wonder Geoff Hilhorst and frequent collaborators, Kacy & Clayton and Evan Cheadle, among others, to find their own vocabulary for translating traditional folk forms – Irish waltzes, Broadside Ballads, ominous lullabies –  to contemporary electric terms.

In August the Deep Dark Woods will be over to play Parkenfestivalen: 
20/08: Bodø, NO - Parkenfestivalen