BELLOWS FALLS — Neptune's Car (Holly Hanson and Steve Hayes), an award-winning acoustic duo from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, will perform their original, contemporary folk music on Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., at Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Church St.
Their three albums have appeared on many “Best of” lists and have charted in the top 5 on folk-music radio twice. In April 2015, The Great American Song Contest awarded Hanson with an Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting in the Folk/Americana category for her song “Fly Fishing the Big Hole” saying, “It's a pleasure to hear songs of this caliber."
In June 2015, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival named the duo a Grassy Hill Emerging Artist and invited them to play on the Main Stage.
Neptune's Car has been performing together as a headliner and an opening act since 2006. But what does the name Neptune's Car mean?
Neptune's Car was a clipper ship that had a female captain. During an 1857 voyage from New York to San Francisco, Captain Joshua Patten became ill at sea. His wife, Mary, took command of the vessel and successfully navigated Neptune's Car around Cape Horn to the port of San Francisco, while caring for her husband, being pregnant with her first child, and fighting off mutiny from the first mate.
The duo says they chose Neptune's Car as their band name “to honor Mary's heroic deeds and memory and to spread the word about this amazing woman whose story should not be forgotten”