In the chorus to "With Words & Cake," the opening track of the enthralling new Faun Fables CD, "A Table Forgotten," Dawn McCarthy sings, "And the happy clinks of cups and plates / mean no one is alone ...

Like a troupe of wayward minstrels lost in the woods en route to Canterbury, circa 1369, Faun Fables spins a fairy-tale romance that combines pagan imagery with wildly costumed musical theater. As if ...

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It's not easy to pinpoint what genre Faun Fables fits into. But whatever it is, the duo are doing something right. Currently touring to promote their fifth album, "Light of a Vaster Dark," Dawn ...

If you weren’t at the Dresden Dolls, Devotchka, and Faun Fables show last night. Dawn the Faun is my heroine. I love her albums, but she’s so much better live. Devotchka were fun, but the whole Gypsy ...

A couple of weeks ago, I spent a day trying to sort out the CDs at home; attempting to make some space on the shelves, really, for the piles of stuff that had accumulated over the last year or so. As ...

Faun Fables' provocative fifth album keys on writers likes Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder to explore the role of women in the early American Midwest. Save this story Save this story Previous ...

Out in the hot, fertile countryside of northern Sonoma County, Faun Fables doyenne Dawn McCarthy has become accustomed to living in the natural seasonal flow of her relatively new rustic home. She ...

Up until now Faun Fables, the ever-evolving vehicle for intense Californian banshee Dawn McCarthy, had not released an album since 2006’s The Transit Rider. During that time, the genre of mystical ...

The deeper Faun Fables gets into a thicket of nymph-haunted vocal harmonies, rustic woodwinds, and chiming guitars on Light Of A Vaster Dark, the clearer it is that leader Dawn McCarthy isn’t about to ...