12.30.08 BMoreMadNewYearsLove

Bonfire Madigan play baroque-folk punk grounded on frontwoman Madigan Shive's soaring lullaby vocals and virtuoso cello skills. Shive, a master of tone and mood, crafts songs with raw, emotional melodies and powerful, unexpected dynamics. - New York Press

Madigan in concert is dazzling; she can build a skyscraper of sound with a full-bodied fortissimo and then knock it into dust in one breath.— Bohemian.com

NEW NEWS = LOOK SHOWS! NYC (*Florence Gould Hall 12/7/08 with Olympia Dukakis *Sold Out!) & the UK (London's Barbican Hall 12/11/08) + more UK dates! BMad on newspaper & magazine covers as well as in an NPR piece with The Icarus Project + in the new book anthology, Live Through This: OUT NOW on Seven Stories Press.

OLD NEWS: ' Tis Pity She’s a Whore at ACT-SF! a Jacobean Tragedy by John Ford. Directed by Carey Perloff. Music composed and performed by Bonfire Madigan Shive."How could a work with language so nasty and sexual politics so sophisticated have been written almost four centuries ago?" The New York Times. June 5- July 6th 2008.

The howls of a wounded cello and the voice of a tormented angel suffuse the blood-soaked tragedy on the American Conservatory Theater's stage. Above all - literally, seated high amid the massive organ pipes of Walt Spangler's industrial-baroque cathedral set - composer, cellist and vocalist Bonfire Madigan Shive is an electrifying one-woman heavenly choir. - San Francisco Chronicle 6/13/08

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