A Table Forgotten, the new EP from Faun Fables’ — and their first new material since 2006 — starts off promisingly. “With Words and Cake” is a stomping fun bit of tribal folk, finding Dawn McCarthy ...

Faun Fables is the long-running project of Dawn McCarthy; since 1999 it has been a vehicle for her brand of hippie, rustic folk, made with assistance from Nils Frykdahl, founding member of ...

Faun Fables are the brainchildren of San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Dawn “The Faun” McCarthy. Accompanied by a revolving cast of players, McCarthy delivers songs loaded with passionate, pagan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Any album by the Faun Fables is not for the faint of heart or the uninquisitive mind. And so it is with their latest release, Light Of A Vaster Dark, which comes out next month on the Drag City label.

straddling. On one hand, she's affiliated with the avant-folk ensemble Sleepytime Gorilla Musuem, whose Nils Frykdahl is also a member of her band; on the other, she's lately been playing Rita ...

Song-telling? Story-singing? As weird as her self-created classifications may be, it’s a good thing Dawn “the Faun” McCarthy deigns to stoop to the level of music journalist. It saves us the agony of ...

A song cycle inspired by the sights and sounds of the New York subway system, Faun Fables’ latest album has already spent a few years on the stage. As with all musical theatre, when you divorce the ...

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 ...