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Interfilk Guest : October Country |
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OCTOBER COUNTRY is a Celtic-influenced folk group that has
performed throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area at pubs, coffee houses,
charity benefits and music festivals (including the North Texas Irish
Festival) since 2001. They play a mix of Scottish, Irish, and traditional
tunes along with original folk and filk songs. Singing about moors and
mountains, myths and legends, fantasy and petty bureaucracy, and
everyone's search for love and meaning, their songs remind listeners of
forgotten times and places. October Country sings songs to be listened
to. The band is:
Casey Sledge (vocals and rhythm guitar) - Casey
started writing songs as a teenager, sometimes to other folks tunes
(therefore filking before he ever knew what it was...) In the ’70s, he
began performing publicly as part of a Christian coffeehouse band. His
musical influences include Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers, Barry McGuire
and Dallas' own Blarney Brothers. He doesn't sound like any of these
people. His first exposure to filk was in Dallas in the mid-80's; filk's
first exposure to him was singing "I am Unicorn" and having Leslie Fish
yelling "COPY!"
Shaddow Walter (guitar) - Shaddow has been active
in the local Celtic music scene as a session guitarist. He had been very
patient waiting for Casey to decide to form October Country and after
about 7 years of backing Casey in filks, song sessions and anywhere else
Casey decided to play was rewarded! His other alter ego is the Main Ears
behind ShaddowFire Sound working with NTIF and names like Spriggan,
Ravens, AmberHawke, Faol B’an, Beyond the Pale, NTTDS contra dances and
Brendana's Dream. He is also a rock, jazz and blues enthusiast and has
been involved with music since the ripe old age of three years.
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