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Indie-Folk · Alt-Country · Singer-Songwriter
Black Schwartz makes pensive, lyrical folk music
— songs about wayward souls and forgotten roads,
angels, ogres, lovers, and seekers;
hymns to the bewildered heart and the mad passenger;
tales of good hope and hard luck, strange times and slow healing.
Grounded in singer-songwriter traditions of folk and country,
his melancholy songs summon
defiance, humour, and consolation.
Black Schwartz makes pensive,
lyrical folk music — songs about
wayward souls and forgotten roads,
angels, ogres, lovers, and seekers;
hymns to the bewildered heart and
the mad passenger;
tales of good hope and hard luck,
strange times and slow healing.
Grounded in singer-songwriter traditions
of folk and country,
his melancholy songs summon
defiance, humour, and consolation.
Little Meadow
“Came as an angel, left as an ogre.”
“Came as an angel,
left as an ogre.”
Little Meadow, the debut album from Black Schwartz,
is a quiet gathering of tenderly crafted solo acoustic folk songs
born of grit and spiritual dust.
By ballad and reverie, mockery, promise, and prayer,
Little Meadow offers a wintry ode of remembrance
on the concrete and the ephemeral,
the lost and the torn.
Little Meadow, the
debut album from Black Schwartz, is
a quiet gathering of tenderly crafted
solo acoustic folk songs
born of grit and spiritual dust.
By ballad and reverie,
mockery, promise, and prayer,
Little Meadow offers
a wintry ode of remembrance
on the concrete and the ephemeral,
the lost and the torn.
…a new Black Schwartz album is also in the works…
…a new Black Schwartz album
is also in the works…
…more soon to come…
Who is Black Schwartz?
Canadian singer-songwriter, Stephen Grant Schwartz (SOCAN), has been making introspective acoustic folk music as Black Schwartz for over two decades in Toronto, Canada and Istanbul, Turkey. Little Meadow, his debut album as Black Schwartz, was released in 2020. A new album is in the works and is expected sometime in 2026/27.
“Can all the hellebore in the Anticyrae cure these men?
No, sure, ‘an acre of hellebore will not do it.’”
— The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton, 1621
Black Hellebore Image from “Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger)” Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855. Public Domain. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
