Upcoming Shows
Joy has been here with Darol Anger, Half Pelican, and Big Richard, and now has a new recording with Gus Tritsch. Everything she touches is golden, don’t miss this.
Peddling their new duo album, Anything Lovely, here come Joy Adams and Gus Tritsch from Colorado. Joy, also a member of Big Richard, has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NPR’s Tiny Desk, Red Rocks, and the Grammy and Emmy award winning film scores to The Queen’s Gambit and Godless on Netflix. Gus has toured internationally with Jake Blount, played at the Kennedy Center and NPR’s Tiny Desk, and tours with his band The Wild Shoats.
Both make music that is introspective and raw in its search for connection, found through songs and gritty fiddle tunes that are both old and new and maybe neither. Together, the two blend their voices and varied influences in a diverse collection of original songs and oldtime music.
We are getting a steel pan band at Longstaff House. They will be in town for a concert at UM and do a house show here. Read the bio and listen to the Tiny Desk show with Bela Fleck )sorry, not coming with).
JONATHAN SCALES FOURCHESTRA – BIOYou’ve heard this before, but the whimsically named Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is really tough to describe. Veering from in-your-face, jaw dropping chops and passion, to those quiet moments when the background noise disappears and you hold your breath to take in a soundscape of solitude, the power trio of electric bass (E’Lon JD), drums (Maison Guidry), and steel pans (Jonathan Scales) combines elements of jazz, classical, and progressive rock, peppered with Latin rhythms and soulful outbursts of funk. From club and festival stages across North America and Europe, and tours of Africa, Southeast and Central Asia as a Cultural Ambassador for the US Department of State, to their NPR Tiny Desk Concert featuring Béla Fleck, the Fourchestra’s live shows make even the most jaded listeners forget where they are… even if just for a precious moment.
This may seem an odd thing to say, but on the verge of releasing their eighth studio recording, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is only now truly embracing their identity as a group. For many years, Jonathan’s live band was a fluid lineup of top-notch musicians, and even included an “all-star” version with bassist MonoNeon (Prince, Nas), drummer Sput Searight (Snarky Puppy, Snoop Dogg) and percussionist Weedie Braimah (Trombone Shorty, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah), as well as a number of other marquee players. Now, however, the Fourchestra is a decidedly indivisible band, and Jonathan is writing for the trio, not just the pans.
Tall Poppy String Band is a majority trans old-time trio featuring banjoist Cameron DeWhitt, guitarist Morgan Harris (both based in Portland, OR) and fiddler George Jackson (Nashville, TN). Their shows are deeply historically informed by the American string band tradition, with special emphasis on those parts of the music’s lineage that are often ignored. Yet they also approach their source material with playfulness and experimentation, joyfully engaging with old time tunes from where they currently stand as a contemporary group of musicians with their own distinct artistic voices. Their upcoming second album Sovereign Pond is a collection of never before heard original tunes in the old time tradition, all newly composed by the individual band members – and then arranged by the group with the same interpretive depth and exploratory spirit they bring to traditional tunes