New Amsterdam Presents:
Finnegan Shanahan & Contemporaneous’ Album Release
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About this performance
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Finnegan Shanahan wrote his song cycle The Two Halves for the powerhouse ensemble Contemporaneous. Based on a map ca.1852 of the Hudson River Railroad, The Two Halves exists in a world somewhere between memory and imagination. It is divided into six songs, each one its own small piece of a dream-like narrative — beginning along the Hudson River and gradually moving out over the Catskills, hurtling across the country to the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and eventually leaving the planet. Join Shanahan and Contemporaneous to celebrate the release of their new album on New Amsterdam Records.