Red Heart the Ticker

Sat., March 15, 7:30 p.m., $5, with Joshua Marcus and Jack Ohly, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org.

by John Vettese

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Published: Mar 11, 2008

rock/pop

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Late last spring, we bid Ty Gibbons and Robin McArthur adieu so they could head back north to their cabin home in pastoral Brattleboro, Vt., to begin work on the next Red Heart the Ticker album. It became a fairly involved process, though, stretching from summer to fall and into winter. Guitarist friends came in from New York and cellist friends came in from London, all conglomerating in the same woodstove-heated farmhouse the indie folky couple used to record their debut, For the Wicked. McArthur reports that the album is coming along, and sits somewhere between half and two-thirds finished. Unfortunately, the writing-recording process (and 4 feet of snow in northern New England) has kept Red Heart from getting out much, aside from a few regional dates with the excellent Winterpills, so we're glad to see them venturing down here to their second home for a carnival-ish show with jugglers and puppeteers on the Ides of March. We'd be equally glad to hear some of the new material they've been tinkering with and perfecting. Pretty please?

Sat., March 15, 7:30 p.m., $5, with Joshua Marcus and Jack Ohly, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org.

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