New Dawn Rising
After eight years, several line-up changes and a major relocation, Cornwall-based symphonic proggers The Emerald Dawn are finally starting to make some waves. Following the release of their fourth album, To Touch The Sky, the quartet’s vocalist and keyboard player Tree Stewart and guitarist Ally Carter take Prog on a musical journey from Scotland to England’s south-west coast.
Words: Stephen Lambe
“W e were gobsmacked, it was totally unexpected!” says The Emerald Dawn’s keyboardist and vocalist Tree Stewart when Prog asks for her reaction to their polling in sixth place in the Unsigned Band category in our recent readers’ poll.
“We’ve always considered ourselves an underground band,” continues Stewart’s partner in music and in life, guitarist and sax player Ally Carter. “The prog I got into in the late 60s and early 70s was underground music. Radio Caroline or John Peel might play something, but you really didn’t hear it regularly unless you went to concerts. But for the readers to vote for us means that we’re not perhaps as underground as we thought.”