Sharon Knight

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Sharon Knight
Background information
Birth name Sharon Elizabeth Knight
Genres Celtic, Neofolk, Rock, Folk Metal, World, New Age
Occupations Musician, Songwriter, Producer
Instruments Voice, Guitar, Mandola, Percussion
Years active 1986 - Present
Labels Trance Jam Records
Associated acts Pandemonaeon
Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle
Hands Upon Black Earth
First of May
Raven
Website Official website
Sharon Knight is a San Francisco-based neopagan composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist known for writing, recording, and performing Celtic fusion music she calls Neofolk Romantique.[1] She also records and performs harder edged music with Middle Eastern themes as the frontperson of the Pagan rock[2]/Folk Metal[3] group Pandemonaeon.[4] Knight is the co-owner of Trance Jam Records.

Biography

Sharon Elizabeth Knight was born on January 8, 1966 and was raised in Redwood City, California. She studied in the Feri tradition of witchcraft with Gabriel Carrillo [5] and has also studied Thelema and Tibetan Buddhism.[6] In 1994, she married the German musician Winter, who has been her musical collaborator since.

Career

Sharon's first album, Incantation, was released in 1996, followed by the self-titled Pandemonaeon debut (2001), Temple of Dreams-Live! (2003), and her second solo album, Song of the Sea [7] (2004), which features two duets with Shay Black of the Black Family.[8] Two of Knight's songs from Song of the Sea, "May Morning Dew" and "Song of the Sea", also appear on Sequoia Records' Celtic Lounge I (2006) and Celtic Lounge II (2007). The latter also contains a music video for "Song of the Sea".[9] Knight has also collaborated with electronica artist Hands Upon Black Earth (Hands Upon Black Earth, 2004; Translucent, 2009), pagan author T. Thorn Coyle (Songs for the Waning Year: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Dark Time of the Year, 2008; Songs for the Strengthening Sun: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Return of the Sun, 2009), and on Raven's 345-S (2008). Her third Pandemonaeon album, Dangerous Beauty, was released in 2010. In 2013 Knight released her third solo album, Neofolk Romantique, another blend of original songs and Celtic traditionals.[1]

Sharon and Winter have been touring nationally since 2010.[10]

Genre and Work

Sharon Knight's solo work has generally been classified as Celtic [11] / New Age [8] even though there are many more cross-cultural elements involved in her music. The same is true for her rock/folk metal band, Pandemonaeon, which due to its Middle Eastern and Goth influence, she describes as "music for bellydancers in combat boots."[12] In her Celtic work, Sharon Knight is most often compared to Loreena McKennitt and Stevie Nicks,[13] although her early musical influences are Planxty, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, and Fairport Convention.[1]

Sharon co-writes & co-produces most of her music with her partner, Winter.

Discography

Flowinglass Music
First of May, For Earth and Her People (1986)[14][15]

Morrigan Records
Various Artists, Fire & Stone: Pagan Rock Volume 1 (1999)[16]

Trance Jam Records[17]
Sharon Knight, Incantation (1996)
Pandemonaeon, Pandemonaeon (2001)
Pandemonaeon, Temple of Dreams - Live! (2003)
Sharon Knight, Siren Songs (2004)
Sharon Knight, Song of the Sea (2004)
Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle, Songs for the Waning Year: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Dark Time of the Year, (2008)
Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle, Songs for the Strengthening Sun: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Return of the Sun, (2009)[18]
Pandemonaeon, Dangerous Beauty (2010)[19]
Sharon Knight, Neofolk Romantique (2013)[20]

Seqouia Records
Various Artists, Celtic Lounge I (2006)[21]
Various Artists, Celtic Lounge II (2007)[9]

Cyberset Music
Hands Upon Black Earth, Hands Upon Black Earth (2004)[22][23]

Hrair Tanielian
Raven, 345-S (2008)[24]

Asizazoon Music
Hands Upon Black Earth, Translucent (2009)[25]

Banshee Records
Various Artists, The Best of Pagan Folk 2 (2012)[26]

Videos

Song of the Sea [27] (El Mundo Bueno Studios, 2007)
Stretched on Your Grave[28] (El Mundo Bueno Studios, 2009)

Other

Cry For the Forest [29] (Earthfilms, 1998, a short film about Julia Butterfly's Luna tree-sit, soundtrack use)
Dark Imaginations [30] (Anaar, 2008, bellydance instructional DVD, soundtrack contribution)
Beatific Vision [31] (Sountru, 2008, feature film, DVD, soundtrack contribution)
The Commune [32] (Elisabeth Fies, 2009, feature film, DVD, soundtrack contribution)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Interview in witches & pagans, Issue 26, April 2013, published by BBI Media, Forest Grove, OR (ISSN 1546-2838)
  2. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/2570/pagrock.htm&date=2009-10-25+10:47:36
  3. ↑ http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/08/interview-with-sharon-knight-of-pandemonaeon.html
  4. ↑ Interview in Crescent Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March 2003, published by North Wind Studios, Pacifica
  5. ↑ http://www.cog.org/wicca/trads/faery.html
  6. ↑ Interview in Modern Pagans: An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practices by John Sulak and V. Vale. San Francisco: RE/Search Publications, 2002. ISBN 1-889307-10-6
  7. ↑ http://www.newagereporter.com/charts/top100.asp?m=9&y=2005
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://www.allmusic.com/album/r733929
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1027484
  10. ↑ http://www.sharonknight.net/tour-archives-2010.html
  11. ↑ http://cdbaby.com/cd/sharonk3
  12. ↑ http://www.sharonknight.net/pandemonaeon.html
  13. ↑ http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/digest/digest.php?a=viewr&id=620
  14. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r760928
  15. ↑ http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/WICCAREVIEW2.html#anchor_39
  16. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JZ7A/ladybridgetswicc#moreAboutThisProduct
  17. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p278464
  18. ↑ http://cdbaby.com/cd/sharonk5
  19. ↑ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pandemonaeon
  20. ↑ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sharonknight
  21. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r817616
  22. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r936204
  23. ↑ http://www.musictap.net/Interviews/CochranBobbyHUBEInterview100705.htm
  24. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1538302
  25. ↑ http://www.rtfmrecords.com/artists/artist_hube.html
  26. ↑ http://www.alive-ag.de/index.php?page=search&search=&sort=Interpret&m=CD&label=Banshee+Records&seite=4
  27. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLuASouDDc&feature=channel_page
  28. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9N8fW6dq0
  29. ↑ http://www.earthfilms.org/havc/pages/music.html
  30. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOv4f2ZzWg
  31. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1315031/soundtrack
  32. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104052/soundtrack

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