PELHAM CONCERT SERIES CONCLUDES ITS SEASON WITH AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH CARSON McHONE, ACCOMPANIED BY DANIEL ROMANO!
Carson McHone is a songwriter from Austin, Texas, now residing in Southern Ontario. McHone’s 2018 internationally released Carousel (Loose Music/Nine Mile Records), produced by Mike McCarthy, was a reimagining of songs from her formative years coming of age playing in dive bars. It established her as a shrewd artist who raises unconventional questions with language equally at home in a poem or a short story. In 2019, during a hectic tour schedule, the songs of Still Life were written, and the following year McHone teamed up with Canadian musician and producer, Daniel Romano, to record the album while sequestered at a home studio in the fall of 2020. Still Life was released on Merge Records/Loose Music in February 2022 with McHone touring the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK in support of the album, as well as joining and performing with Daniel Romano’s Outfit. McHone has since recorded and toured four albums as a member of Daniel Romano’s Outfit. McHone’s 2024 EP, ODES, is a collection of covers recorded at Camera Varda with her bandmates from the Outfit, released July 19 via Merge Records. Pentimento, McHone’s new LP (released September 12, 2025 on Merge Records), finds her on the frontier of her musical imagination, channeling inputs as diverse as guitar rock, pastoral folk, poetry, field recordings, visual art, memory, family, and landscape, into her most profound effort to date. Written in the Texas desert and recorded on the Canadian coast, Pentimento is a layered compilation of life’s shifting circumstances and the disquiet of the world at large.
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“Dazzling… Mixing the dreamy and the visceral with masterful ease, McHone crafts vivid scenes that resonate beyond their literal dimensions. No longer the Austin alt-country artist who seemed to be headed down a familiar creative path, McHone (who’s now based in Ontario) is charting her own course on this exhilarating work.” – No Depression
"“Multi-layered, career defining… In many ways, Pentimento is a multisensory experience. Poetry, spoken interludes and fragments of field recordings breathe beside the music. And while it may all suggest something a mite overly precious, the album instead carries the weight of its ambitions lightly. It’s beautifully fashioned from an expansive folk palette, but coloured and graffiti’d by outbreaks of feral noise, homemade percussion and deliberately wonky fiddles. Some of it is finely constructed, at other times it’s pure spontaneity." – Uncut (Album of the Month, 9/10)
"Carson McHone’s dazzling Pentimento pursues higher truths in the real world… While there’s a folk-art quality to her songs… this isn’t a musical living museum. Instead, McHone and her band move with a sense of restless investigation.… On Create Away, McHone echoes her mother’s instructions to seize the day; with this beautiful record, she goes above and beyond." – MOJO (****)
“McHone keeps balancing what might seem opposites: earth and air, poetry and noise, stillness and momentum, constantly revealing new connections and new layers to her central concern: how song emerges and how it brings us together.” – 13th Floor