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Aoife O’Donovan Brings Her Stunning Song Cycle About Women’s Suffrage, ‘All My Friends,’ to Concert and Symphony Halls
Aoife O'Donovan was commissioned by a symphony to wrote a song cycle about women's suffrage, 'All My Friends,' that became an album and, now, a tour.
Due to the pandemic, that timing didn’t quite work out, but an even fuller fleshing out of the material resulted in O’Donovan, a favorite in the Americana music world, releasing “All My Friends” earlier this year, followed by a current tour that has her performing concerts alternately with a small, rootsy ensemble and full orchestras. The more stripped-down version of the tour reaches the L.A. area with a show Wednesday night at the Wallis Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills, where O’Donovan will be backed by the string trio Hawktail. O’Donovan Zoomed with Variety from her home in Orlando (which will also play host to a forthcoming symphonic show, conducted by her husband) to talk about the tour, the album and a new EP that offers more minimalistic arrangements of the songs.
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