DESCRIPTION:
Featuring Krista Detor, Karine Polwart, Emily Smith, & Rachael McShane.

CLOCK OF THE WORLD written by Krista Detor

Performed by: KRISTA DETOR http://www.kristadetor.com,
KARINE POLWART http://www.karinepolwart.com,
EMILY SMITH http://www.emilysmith.org,
and RACHAEL McSHANE http://rachaelmcshane.wordpress.com/

In March 2009 eight folk singer/songwriters gathered together for a week long songwriting residential in rural Shropshire to create songs that had a relevance and resonance with Charles Darwin.

The eight artists were Krista Detor, Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Stu Hanna, Rachael McShane, Emily Smith, Mark Erelli, and Jez Lowe.

The whole concert was recorded for a CD entitled 'Darwin Song Project' which was released in July 2009, and the eight musicians reconvened at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival in August to perform the nineteen songs that were composed during the week.

CD 'Darwin Song Project' http://www.darwinsongproject.com

Shrewsbury Festival http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk

Sound mixed by Stu Hanna Video recorded and edited by Microvideo, Shrewsbury

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LYRICS: CLOCK OF THE WORLD © Krista Detor, 3/09

I am pondering the citizenry of the place I live.
Privilege and advantage, but a willingness to give.
These droves and droves of immigrants came teaming cross the plains
the cavalry behind them, and we are what remains.

And if youve got a dollar, someonell give you something for it
but a little morell get you something nicer,
Im sure of it.
Maybe a watch made in China from the trunk of someones car
or a lifesize cardboard cutout of a famous movie star.

CHORUS:
But somewhere bells are ringing
Somewhere someones marrying
Or a casket someones carrying
A crowd somewhere is gathering
Somewhere a bell is marking
What is passing and sublime
Like the clock of the world
Keeping perfect holy time

Ravenous and beautiful, its all beyond me, I admit.
I can buy it if I want it, but I dont need so much of it.
And the price will need repaying, dont know how it will be met.
But bells go on ringing, grace may find us yet.

Or will the angels stumble, weary, tired of tasks theyve been assigned?
Bells ringing resoundly, while they hold the firing lines?
With great imagination we call these creatures from the air and as easily convince ourselves that they were never there.

CHORUS
But somewhere bells are ringing
Somewhere someones marrying
Or a casket someones carrying
A crowd somewhere is gathering
Somewhere a bell is marking
What is passing and sublime
Like the clock of the world
Keeping perfect holy time

I am listening for a church bell and I know somewhere it rings,
reading Darwin by the window, in the order of natural things.
There is grandeur in his viewpoint
these evolutionary strains
still nothings quiet on the Eastern front,
So the cavalry remains. Always the cavalry remains.

And if youve got a dollar, someonell give you something for it
but a little morell get you something nicer, Im sure of it .
Heres a painting of a woman, maybe all the way from Rome
Look how sad and pretty, shes so far away from home.

CHORUS
But somewhere bells are ringing
Somewhere someones marrying
Or a casket someones carrying
A crowd somewhere is gathering
Somewhere a bell is marking
What is passing and sublime
Like the clock of the world
Keeping perfect holy time

Krista Detor's Tour Dates

March 2017

Mon 13. The Met Studio Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, Eastgate St, Stafford, ST16 2LJ
Tel: 01785 254 653 Tickets £13.00 -- Doors 8:00 p.m.

Tue 14. Kitchen Garden Café 17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7SA
Tel: 0121 443 4725 Tickets £12.00 -- Doors 7:30 p.m.

Wed 15. The Hive 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1TE
Tel: 01743 234970 Tickets £12.50 -- Doors 7:30 p.m.

Thur 16. The Green Note 106 Parkway, Camden Town, London NW1 7AN
Tel: 020 7485 9899 Tickets £12.00 -- Doors 8:00 p.m.

Fri 17. The Parlour at Manor Farms Somerton Rd, Ardley, Bicester, Oxfordshire OX27 7NS
Tel: 01869 345689 See website for entrance and payment details.

Sat 18. St Cuthberts House 192 Main St, Seahouses, Northumberland NE68 7UB
Tel: 01665 720456 Tickets £10:00 -- Doors 7:00 p.m.

May 2017

Fri 12. The White Horse Inn West Village, Ballincollig, Co Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0) 21 4871388 -- Doors 8:00 p.m.

Sat 13. Crocanoir , Ballycullen, Mullinahone, County Tipperary, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)52 9153117 -- Doors

Mon 15. Mick Murphys Bar Main St, Ballymore Eustace, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: Doors 8:30 p.m.

Krista Detor & Rod C Taylor Ph.D. host Music in the Mournes
Fri 19th to 28th May 2017 Rostrevor Cottages, Rostrevor, County Down, Ireland
A ten day residential songwriting retreat in the Mountains of Mourne.
See website for details