Event
Skunk Funk 4
After a short (one year) hiatus, the Skunk Funk is back. The format may be a little different, but everything else (the great music, food, and beer) are unchanged. This year it will take place Friday night and all day Saturday with performances by Andy Friedman, Peter Mulvey, Jeffrey Foucault, Dusty Pascal, Heather Pierson Trio, and The Suitcase Junket. They will play separately and, if were lucky, some will gather on our stage together. Backing Andy Friedman will be Stephan Crump and David Goody Goodrich, two outstanding musicians who have played with Andy for years. The vibe will be loose. The music will be tight. By Sunday morning it will seem like a wonderful dream you want to slip back into and float away on.
This event happens rain or shine! Concerts are performed inside The Odeon, and if the weather is nice the doors and windows will be open so you can sit inside or outside.
PLEASE NOTE: We have a "no outside beverages" policy at The Odeon and the day of the Skunk Funk is no exception! There will be a large variety of hot and cold beverages available, so please don't bring your own.
Empire Brewing will be pouring all day Saturday.
Gypsy Girl Wood-Fired Pizza will be baking delicious made-to-order pizzas in their travelling wood-fired oven all day Saturday.
The Odeon kitchen will have a selection of hot and cold beverages and desserts available Friday night and all day Saturday.
Lets look at the guys one at a time:
Andy Friedman is a bit of a renaissance man. Hes a writer, illustrator, cartoonist, painter, musician, and performance artist. He is a Brooklyn-based art-country singer-songwriter, and one of the best Americana acts around today. His bleary-eyed poetry and beat-inflected delivery suggests, and rightly so, that he is influenced just as much by Allen Ginsberg as he is by Johnny Cash. His last album, Laserbeams and Dreams, was recorded in 18 hours in the home studio of jazz bassist and close friend Stephan Crump, who, along with guitarist and producer David Goodrich, provides Friedman with his only accompaniment.
Unvarnished beauty on a record is a rare thing these days, particularly with this kind of sonic subtlety. Goodrichs mesmerizing electric guitar work recalls recent jazz greats like Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, while Crump alternates between melodious jazz riffing to beautifully symphonic bowed string passages. Together, they give this record an otherworldly vibe that emphasizes the unique, unconventional nature of Friedmans songs.
Not left behind in the new approach is Friedmans signature knack for wide-ranging, complex, and varied lyricism. Although he has drawn frequent comparisons to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan for both his un-dogmatic re-imagination of American roots music and his sprawling lyrics, which effortlessly shift from humorous and referential to wizened and weary, it is truly Friedmans range and depth that puts him in the same breath as those musical giants. His writing tackles topics both big and small, from the joys and costs of being a traveling artist to musings on life and death, art and drinking, and the odd disconnect between who he is and what he does.
Andy will also have artwork exhibited at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park - visit their website for more info: http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org
To Peter Mulvey, there is no such thing as a straight and narrow path. At least, not one that he has any interest in taking.
A live-wire on any stage, Peter Mulvey is an acoustic singer/songwriter/guitarist who, in fact, defies this categorization. His ferocious guitar playing whisks him through more tunings than he has fingers in the course of an evening, as he winds his way from full-throated rockers to deceptively plain-spoken musings. Whether solo or with longtime musical collaborator David "Goody" Goodrich at his side (coaxing unearthly sounds out of electric guitars and mandolins), Mulvey is someone who just naturally commands a stage.
Over the past 20+ years, he has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician immersing himself in Tin Pan Alley jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. Relentlessly touring as a headliner his attitude is, When you love what you do, you can work all the time, he has also shared the stage with luminaries such as Emmylou Harris, Richard Thompson, Ani diFranco, Indigo Girls, and Greg Brown, and has attracted an audience that stretches from Anchorage to Amsterdam.
Peter Mulvey is all substance, which is his style. - Boston Globe
One of the finest songwriters of his generation, Jeffrey Foucault has taken, in his own words, the small roads; building a brick and mortar independent international touring career of ten studio albums, countless miles and critical accolades. Hes been lauded for Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest (The New Yorker) and described as Quietly brilliant (The Irish Times), while catching the ear of everyone from Greil Marcus to Don Henley (who regularly covers Foucault in his live set), to Van Dyke Parks (who offered to play on Foucault's 2011 offering, Horse Latitudes, after catching a live radio interview).
The title of his latest album, Salt as wolves, is a line from Othello describing boldness; a fitting title to frame a record of blues played bold and loosely, without rehearsal or cant. With his fifth collection of original songs, Foucault stakes out and enlarges the ground hes been working diligently all the new century, quietly building a deep, resonant catalog of songs about about love, memory, God, desire, wilderness and loss. Salt as wolves gives us Jeffrey Foucault at the height of his powers, turning the wheel of American music.
Jeffrey Foucault is a young man with an old soul...contemporary and timeless. - The New York Times
Dusty Pas'cal is from just down the road a piece, beautiful Skaneateles. He's considered by many to be one of the top singer/songwriters in Central New York.
Dusty says that since he first picked up a guitar at age 13, hes been a firm believer in the purity of his music. Early on, I was influenced by guys like Kris Kristofferson and Jim Croce, because thats who my dad listened to, he said. But actually, I was most influenced by my dad, whos a songwriter himself.
Lonesome is a heartbreaking ballad that includes lyrics written by Dustys father. My dad came to one of my shows, and I could see him just sitting there writing something, he recalls. Dustys dad was in fact writing a poem about a friend of his who was on deaths door, so Dusty set the poem without changing a single word, he said to music. I know my dad so well, it just flowed out naturally."
Dustys three studio albums, Home (2006), More (2008), and "Human Heart" (2012) have garnered attention in Central New York and across the nation; several tracks have been featured on local radio stations and internationally on XM Satellite Radio. He is currently working on his next album, November Left Me.
Dusty will move you from one end of music's emotional spectrum to the other - and it will be a ride you'll want to take again and again.
The Suitcase Junket is Matt Lorenz's internationally touring, slide-guitar playing, throat-singing one-man-band. Matt Lorenz - a Vermont born musician, visual artist and tinkerer, is a professional showoff. "I aim to write good songs and sing them honestly" says Lorenz. He does that and more. The Suitcase Junket's artistic vision is one of salvaged and repurposed objects, images and emotions. His innovative junk-percussion constructions, original album art featuring inanimate objects with wings, and the high craft of his songwriting all combine to create a unique and engaging entity with a force and style all its own. His sound isn't easy to pin into a genre, but The Suitcase Junket is often likened to Tom Waits, The Black Keys and Andrew Bird. Lorenz's songwriting is unexpected, powerful and poignant, drawing from the deep well of the American musical traditions of folk, rock, blues and storytelling, all sharpened with a keen pop sensibility. With masterful command over instruments of his own creation, he silences a room with the first notes of his throat singing and holds the crowd until the final chords of his guitar. When he plays you get the sense that he is truly playing and that he'd be doing it just as joyfully with or without an audience.
The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio burst onto the national folk scene in 2015 with their debut EP, Still She Will Fly. It features the multi-genre depth of Heathers songwriting, their intricate instrumental arrangements, and stirring three-part vocal harmonies. The title track was the #2 single on Folk radio in 2015, and three other songs (Aint Gotten Around, You Dont Know Him The Way I Do, and Make It Mine) were in 2015s Top 100 Folk singles. Heather Pierson (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor banjo, piano) is an award-winning singer/songwriter and performer. With eight previous solo recordings under her belt, Heathers wise-beyond-her-years songwriting, angelic voice, and world-class chops have catapulted her into the spotlight. Davy Sturtevant (cornet, dobro, fiddle, mandolin, harmony vocals) is a veteran touring artist, producer, engineer, songwriter, and performer. Armed with a gorgeous tenor voice and a mighty arsenal of instruments that come to life in his capable hands, Davy is at once a witty, thoughtful, and engaging musical presence. Shawn Nadeau (bass, harmony vocals) brings a rock solid thump and nearly two decades of performing experience to the trio, informed by a wide spectrum of unique rhythmic and melodic sensibilities ranging from rockabilly to reggae to jazz.
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LocationThe Nelson Odeon (View)
4035 Nelson Rd.
Nelson, NY 13035
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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