To book Mad Agnes
Contact:
Jacey Bedford of
Jacey Bedford Tour Management
01484 606230
agency(at)jacey-bedford.com

Back to Home
Who's Touring When
Browse Whole List

Artists
Browse Whole List
Appalachian Roots
Belshazzar's Feast
Bernard Carney
Cara Luft with Hugh McMillan
Cloudstreet
Coyote Run
Dan McKinnon
Eileen McGann with David K
Finest Kind
James Keelaghan
Mad Agnes
The Outside Track
Peggy and PJ
Rosheen
Shep Woolley
Tanglefoot
Tania Opland & Mike Freeman
William Pint & Felicia Dale

Tom Fairbairn looks after:
Jaime RT & Andy Hillhouse
Kate Burke & Ruth HazletonTrouble in the Kitchen
tomfairbairn(at)yahoo.co.uk
07745 997199

Mad Agnes (USA)

Smart, intelligent, entertaining. "Music for thinking people."
UK debut Cropredy Festival 2007

Touring 6th September to 2nd October 2008

Watch their 9 minute videoclip (broadband connection recommended) - or see the video on youtobe - below.
Listen to a compilation of their music (OK for dial-up connections)
See Mad Agnes ar Cropredy (sorry this one can't bre embedded)

Click in the image
to see the larger version
of the promo postcard

Listen to 'Voyager; Green; Chocolate; Greet the Morning

“...diverse repertoire, three-part harmonies as tight as jeans from the dryer...you’d be crazy not to check out Mad Agnes .” Rob Weir – The Valley Advocate, MA

Youtube Video of Mad Agnes at Cropredy

Mad Agnes is not one person, but three, and they're mad in only the most inventive way.  Margo Hennebach, Adrienne Jones and Mark Saunders stir up elements of classical and folk, cross singer/songwriter poignancy with street-theatre smarts and infuse it all with courageous harmonies, complex counterpoint and rich storytelling in a powerful live performance.  Their lyrics are intelligent, their delivery warm, and insightful. 

"Setting the standard high, Mad Agnes offers great harmonies, a sense of humor and a theatrical flair...a sure way to please your audience with a terrific show!"
Marrianne Jackson, Director, Forksville Folk Festival, PA 

The music of classically trained Hennebach has been described as “contemporary and timeless”by the Star Gazette, and “captivating” by Sing Out Magazine.  A finalist in songwriting competitions, including Kerrville and Napa Valley, Margo has a BM in Piano from Oberlin Conservatory and a masters degree in Music Therapy from the Guildhall School of Music in London.  Jones is a self-taught fingerstyle & rhythm guitarist and bassist and a finalist in four national songwriting competitions.  Of her CD release, Talking River, Dirty Linen magazine praised her “expressive ability to wrap meaning around a lyric with the simple rise or fall of a note.”  Mad Agnes also features Hartford Conservatory graduate Saunders on vocals, acoustic, electric, National steel and bass guitars.  His guitar work recalls the inventiveness of Richard Thompson, while providing "understated ballast with his voice and lead guitar--his delicate arpeggio picking...and fiery fills and runs,” says Acoustic Guitar magazine.

They've been called genre-bending -- with classical, rock and old-world backgrounds they play everything from contemporary original to madrigals, to Celtic traditionals, to harmony-driven folk pop.  They perform internationally at listening rooms and festivals including The Kerrville Folk Festival (TX), Mountain Stage New Songs Festival (WV), The Birchmere (VA), The Forksville Folk Festival, The Sellersville Theatre, Bethlehem Musikfest and Godfrey Daniels (PA), The Bitter End and the Towne Crier (NY), WFMT’s Live Stage Radio Broadcast (IL), Cedarburg Cultural Center (WI), Sunrise Civic Center Theater (FL), University of Hartford and Cheney Hall (CT), The Ark (MI), and First nights Morristown (NJ) and Worcester (MA), Cropredy Festival (UK). As one presenter once introduced them, “Together, the three of them make a great couple.”

Their third CD, Revenants, features guest artists, drummer Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull) and guitarist Jeff Pevar (Crosby, Stills, and Nash, CPR), and was mixed and mastered by four-time Emmy winner Jim Chapdelaine (Phoebe Snow, Big Al Anderson) in West Hartford, CT.  The song list represents all three members' contributions, including, for the first time, three instrumentals by Saunders (guitars, mandolin). Together the collection presents an intimate scrapbook of the band's passages and triumphs.

Here's their website, their stage plans, brochure copy and all their press photo downloads

Back to artist index