Unbelievable as it may seem - we have a gig! He Mistook Her For A Swan is playing the Matinee from 2 to 5 at the Local Pub 396 Roncesvalles. Our friend Brian Stillar will be be doing a few…
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He Mistook Her For A Swan, afffectionately known by our acronym HMHFAS is Colleen Hodgson and Steve Koch. We play dark and moody music for dark and moody people. The music is mostly accoustic and loosely inspired by the giants of the early English Folk scene Anne Briggs, Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny and others. Building on that solid base of Sad and Beautiful music, we've added other influences like Townes Van Zant, Graeme Parsons, Hoyt Axton and of course Ozzy. Sometimes joined by our heavy friends we hope to be playing at a bar near you sometime soon.
Tunes
Nottamun Town is a very old and very strange song, originating in the 1600's it describes a world where everything is upside down, backwards, disoriented. So its appropriate for our times too. Not only is this song a story, it has a story. Although the words of the song were known, the music had been lost in England so the song existed only in lyric sheets. In the 1900's some musicologists found that the song was still being played widely in the Appalachian mountains of America. With the music remarried to the words, Bert Jansch did a dark and sweet version of the tune, and now so have we.
More cool facts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottamun_Town
Shows
Here's where you can see HMHFAS around town
Previous events
Latest News
The latest HMHFAS news and nonsense
Feb 12 2022
New Single out today - Voodoo Blues
Jun 12 2021
The Episodes
Oct 12 2020
Episode 28 of the podcast is up
Sep 21 2020
More Emergency Broadcast shows - we're up to 25!
Jul 24 2020
Episode 16 - She moved through the fair!
Jul 13 2020
Episode 15 - Oklahoma!
Jul 5 2020
Episode 14 - Townes Van Zandt
Jun 9 2020
Episodes 9 and 10?
May 25 2020
Episode 8 - The Battle Hymn of Suckville!
Apr 7 2020
HMHFAS Emergency Broadcasting System
Feb 23 2020
Jackson C Frank song used in the Joker
Jul 10 2019
Supermarket Gig
May 4 2019
Some gigs and some stuff going on
Apr 14 2019