Sharon Knight - Portals (2016)

San Francisco songstress Sharon Knight is a Celtic folk singer in leather armbands. She plays octave mandolin as if it were an electric guitar and sings as though she means to summon a storm. Together with her longtime collaborator Winter, she tours internationally several months out of the year, performing at festivals, masquerades, conventions, cafes, shops and house concerts. Their penchant for combining fierce and gutsy bravado with ethereal beauty, a hearty dose of fantastical lyrics, and an obvious love of storytelling has inspired their own musical style, “Neofolk Romantique”. Although their musical foundations are inspired by Celtic tradition, they prefer chart her own path.

That path often sounds less Celtic and more “Folktales that ran away with the Faeries at the turn of the century and took cover in an old trunk bound for the circus, which was then commandeered by pirates.” This suits them fine.

Sharon and Winter have shared stages with mythic music favorites such as Faun, Omnia, Corvus Corax, SJ Tucker, Tricky Pixie, Heather Dale, Wendy Rule, Stellamara, and many more. Their most recent release, Portals, is 100% crowd-funded and features several of these artists as guest musicians.