An Afternoon with the HMS Acoustic Band

With the songs, I see Sylvie through the Glass, In the Place where Angels Sing, and their shout out to Cranaleith in It Only Takes a Moment, the HMS Acoustic Band featuring singer-songwriter Steve Hart, Ed McTague and John Burkhauser drew their Cranaleith crowd into Steve’s stories of love, loss, new life, and celebration. We traveled back to his home town of Teeside, England, where he sang of his father and the other Men of Steel who spent their lives toiling in the oppressively hot and dirty steel mills only to have them shutter, making them question their worth and future. We were invited into his experience of having a grandchild born during Covid.  We could all relate to the deep love and longing he felt to hold Sylvie in his arms. As one person put it, “The music was beautiful and touched my soul. It gave me hopeful inspiration.”