Seán Barna and his band sit down for a One On One Garden Session during The Underwater Sunshine Festival in City Winery New York on October 13th, 2018. Watch the full session here: https://youtu.be/tBC-ktfLnw4 For more info visit: http://www.seanbarna.com & https://underwatersunshinefest.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin Audio Mixing by: Dave Drago @ 1809 Studios
Setlist:
Routines
Qiueer Mad Blues
Modern Man
Seán Barna is a singer, songwriter, and drummer based in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Employing a highly-visual lyrical panache and an atypically full-throated singing style, Barna’s newest record, Cissy, a gasping, rapid-fire deconstruction of what it means to be a man. If Bukowski had frequented queer spaces and written songs for Patti Smith, those songs might sound like this.
Camped out in 1809 Studios, a literal stone’s throw from the Erie Canal, Seán and producer/studio owner Dave Drago set out to make a record, start to finish, in a few days, later adding a collaboration from Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows.
Cissy is a measured, brutally observant deconstruction of masculinity, where the main players in the story – drag queens, mothers, queers, office workers, and wanderers – come together in the name of excess to achieve a well-worn life. Barna plays both drums and guitar on Cissy, but it is his rare poetic bravado and stream-of-consciousness vocal delivery – theatrical and pained but grounded and honest – that guides us, shines a light on our traumas, and invites us in for a drink.
