|discography
as a leader
Long Time Exhaling,
Jess McIntosh 2016
Original score "The Revel" The House Theatre of Chicago, 2015
(Lyrics co-written by Damon Kiely)
as a collaborator
An American Legend: Horace Kephart Great Smoky Mountains Association/Horace Kephart Foundation, 2017
Westbound, Kalispell 2012
Stoop Singers, Stoop Singers 2010
2011 Demo, Stoop Singers
Slowcoustic Cover Projec
Damien Jurado'sGhost of David, 2013
|current projects / collaborations
Joybird is the musical project of fiddle-driven Chicago songwriter & composer, Jess McIntosh.
Grafting literate, character-driven songs and Mid-American roots onto a post-punk DIY sensibility, Chicago-based songwriter, performer and instrumentalist Al Scorch is at the forefront of a bold musical frontier. A songwriter, vocalist, claw-hammer banjoist and rambunctious force of nature, Scorch –– solo and with his shifting collective of musicians –– regales audiences across the U.S., the UK and Ireland.
Grafting literate, character-driven songs and Mid-American roots onto a post-punk DIY sensibility, Chicago-based songwriter, performer and instrumentalist Al Scorch is at the forefront of a bold musical frontier. A songwriter, vocalist, claw-hammer banjoist and rambunctious force of nature, Scorch –– solo and with his shifting collective of musicians –– regales audiences across the U.S., the UK and Ireland.
Grafting literate, character-driven songs and Mid-American roots onto a post-punk DIY sensibility, Chicago-based songwriter, performer and instrumentalist Al Scorch is at the forefront of a bold musical frontier. A songwriter, vocalist, claw-hammer banjoist and rambunctious force of nature, Scorch –– solo and with his shifting collective of musicians –– regales audiences across the U.S., the UK and Ireland.
old lazarus' harp folk music collective
OLH is a young traditional and folk music collective, redefining the folk experience in Chicago through independent concerts, jams, hootenannies, square dances, and festivals.