Biography
Scarecrows in a Field is collaboration between two of the South Africa's finest singer-songwriters - Chris Davidson and Bill Knight.
Chris is a Muizenberg-based poet, founder-member of the quirky and celebrated The Lentil Collective and a songwriter of note, who produces moving songs of deep insight and power. Chris can’t read music, finds math is a problem, and maintains that we all have unique mythologies. He prefers to perform in small intimate venues, and around his kitchen table. As a street-side philosopher, Chris has given himself permission to continue to reinvent his reality.
Bill Knight, poet, South African singer-songwriter, storyteller, weaver of tall tales and short truths, layers his authentic contemporary Cape-folk music with poetic lyrics of depth and intensity. His “Kaapse Mengsel” Style (Cape Mix Style), written in a characteristic “Bredie” of English and “Kombuistaal” (the dialect of the Western Cape), provides a personal but universal insight into the not-so-ordinary lives of everyday people, drawing strongly on myth, mystery, legend and folklore. Bill freely admits to being a “KhakieBoer”- half Brit, half Boer- with all the tensions that such a blend suggests, but his fireside ballads and torch-songs are more universal than any divisions that might be expected.
Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. Their work explores the paradoxes of the Crow and the Dove, the Light and Dark, the Duality and Contrast of the Human Condition- sometimes light-hearted, sometimes shockingly visceral, always authentic. They have recently released their second album Birds of a Feather to much critical acclaim, which included guest musicians Rayelle Goodman (Freshlyground, Coda) on violin and Stephan Willemse (The Lentil Collective, Afrotone) on bass guitar.
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