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Bill MacKay & Michael Zerang Announce New Album Scarlet Hour: Hear “New Song”
Bill MacKay and Michael Zerang have announced *Scarlet Hour*, an eight-track album due out on 29 January 2027. The Chicago musicians draw on Arabian, Turkish, Indian and Iberian folk music, and have released “New Song” as the lead single, accompanied by a video directed by Michael Vallera.
Recorded by Nick Broste at Electrical Audio, the album features MacKay on guitar, requinto and piano, and Zerang on darbuka, tambourine and saz. A record-release show is scheduled for 29 January in Chicago, followed by dates in Rock Island, Madison and Milwaukee in March; the album will be released by Drag City.
In short
- MacKay and Zerang’s *Scarlet Hour* arrives on 29 January 2027.
- The eight tracks draw on four folk traditions.
- “New Song” is out with a Michael Vallera-directed video.