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Proserpine

from Bones & Secrets by Shannon Kingsbury

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    Bones & Secrets is the 2nd solo offering from Canadian based songwriter and harpist, Shannon Kingsbury. The physical CD package features a beautiful full colour booklet of illustrations by Ryan Price.

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WHERE, countless as the stars of night,
The daisies made a milky way
Across fresh lawns, and flecked with light,
Old ilex groves walled round with bay,-

I saw thee stoop, oh lady sweet,
And with those pale, sweet hands of thine
Gather the spring-flowers at our feet,
Fair as some late-born Proserpine.

Yea, gathering flowers, thou might'st have been
That goddess of ethereal brow,
Revisiting this radiant scene
From realm of dolorous shades below.

Thou might'st have been that Queen of Sighs,
Love-bound by Hades' dreadful spell;
For veiled within thy heaven-blue eyes,
There lay the Memory of Hell.

Lyrics from the poem “The New Proserpine” by Mathilde Blind from “Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident” (London: Chatto and Windus,1895)

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from Bones & Secrets, released May 7, 2017
Lyrics from the poem “The New Proserpine” by Mathilde Blind from “Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident” (London: Chatto and Windus,1895)
Vocals: Shannon Kingsbury, Tricia Brubacher and Sue Smith
Mandolins & Keyboards: Jeff Bird

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Shannon Kingsbury Guelph, Ontario

Equal parts philosophical musing and modern mysticism, the stories and worlds conjured in Shannon's music are at once familiar and somehow borne of another time.

While firmly rooted in the songwriter tradition, the ever ambitious artist explores a diverse
sonic palette that features harp, cornet, hurdy gurdy, double bass, accordion, layered vocals, tuba and more. ... more

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