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Dancing Strings & Musical Feet
MANZANITA, OR
Dancing Strings & Musical Feet
Thursday April 14, 2016
Hoffman Center
7:30 p.m. (Doors 7:00 p.m.)
$20 at the door
$15 Advance sales Brown Paper Tickets
Dancing Strings & Musical Feet
An evening of musical dance and dancing music
Acreative collaboration of sonic interplay between musicians of disparate backgrounds with consanguineoussouls. The evening will be a multicolored, musical tapestry, woven of traditional Irish tunes and songs, Brazilian choro pieces, and poetry set to genre-defying music. Luscious string textures punctuated by percussive dance -- mandolins, mandola, guitars in many sizes, shapes and tunings, cittern, bouzouki amidstsean-nòsdancing , the improvised old style dancing of Ireland. Come prepared for an journey through scenic but irregular musical terrain , with unexpected twists and turns.
Your musical tour guides...
TIM CONNELLis well-known to acoustic music fans as a top-tier, virtuoso mandolinist, touring internationally with Mike Marshall's Ger Mandolin Orchestra. Tim has also spent many years putting together a set of solo arrangements for the mandolin, from Brazilian choros to Irish jigs, from Beatles to Broadway.Tim couples these flights of virtuosic picking with heartfelt American songs, giving audiences an intimate window into his virtuosic yet emotional style and his deep passion for music and life.
A graduateof the New England Conservatory of Music and a virtuoso mandolinist with over twenty years professional performing experience, Tim has created asophisticated and original global style on the mandolin.Widely regarded as the top North American interpreter of the Brazilianchorostyle on the mandolin, he has also developed his own unique voice for the instrument, described in a recent Mandolin Magazine cover story as fiery and energetic, soulful and evocative. More at www.timconnellmusic.com
Creative artistKIERAN JORDANis a dynamic performer, teacher, director, choreographer, and writer in the field of Irish dance. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, she has established a professional freelance career spanning more than 15 years.
Kierans dancing reflects her broad interests and experience, ranging from traditional Irish dance to contemporary modern dance. She has a particular passion forsean-nósdance the improvised old-style tradition from Ireland and through her innovative recordings, teaching programs, and performance projects, she has played a major role in introducing it to the US.
A life-long Irish step dancer, Kieran has performed at concerts and festivals throughout North America and Europe, combining her nimble footwork andsean-nósdance musicality with a warm and uplifting presence. Her dancing has been described as fluid and elegant, subtle and sweet, with rock-solid grooves and guts underneath. Wonderfully expressive (The Living Tradition) and playfully theatrical (The Boston Globe), Kieran creates soulful and memorable moments on stage. More at www.kieranjordan.com
MARLA FIBISHandBRUCE VICTORareNOCTAMBULE. Based in San Francisco, they play original and traditional music in avariety of forms -- joining together poetry they have set to music with traditional Irish tunes and songs. Their music is alive with lush beauty, sensitivity, and humor onguitars in creative tunings, mandola, mandolin, bouzouki, cittern, tenor guitar, and theirblended voices. The name NOCTAMBULE, French for 'night-owl, comes from a Robert Service poem about a nocturnal ramblethrough the back alleys of Paris.
"...poetry set magnificently to original music...exquisite excursions into daydream worlds...like taking a tour of a dozen regions of the land of the human soul...induces a trance of the most luxurious kind." - FolkWorks
"The irregular phrases, unpredictable meters and strangely beautiful harmonies...overlapping voices, guitars, and mandolins conjure a nocturnal world in which the words of some of our finest poets take shape and snap together magically like recently discovered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Travel in the Shadows is folk music at its best--hand made, without a template.
- Alex DeGrassi
"Thearrangements have the kind of genius that reflects lives lived fully, souls not unscathed, but with glittering musical imaginations grounded in joyful glorious experience. The playing is simply beautiful, and the interplay between Bruce's moving, deft yet muscular guitar playing and Marla's always magic mandolin reminds me of watching two strong dancers moving together, creating so much more than the sum of the parts."
-Kevin Carr, Folkworks
MARLA FIBISHis well known in the Irish music world, bringing a musicality and excitement to the tradition that is seldom heard on the mandolin. She is also known for her compositions, musical settings of poetry and instrumental pieces that have been featured in her work withOut of the Rain, andThree Mile Stone, and on her recording with Jimmy Crowley,The Morning Star.In addition to the mandolin, Marla brings mandola, tenor guitar, bouzouki, accordion, and her alto voice to the Noctambule sound.
BRUCE VICTORis an eclectic and accomplished guitarist and composer, who plays several different guitars inseveraldifferent tunings. Seemingly resisting any single musical genre, he has been labeled a 'poly-stylistby one of the editors of Acoustic Guitar magazine. He has played withThe Sirens of San Francisco,The Triplicates, and as a solo performer.He was the founder of TheAcoustic Vortex, a non-profit musical organization that produced house concerts, mentored youth performers, and performed benefit concerts for other non-profit organizations. He is also a practicing psychiatrist and was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California,San Francisco.
More at www.noctambulemusic.com
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LocationHoffman Center (View)
594 Laneda Ave,
Manzanita, OR 97130
United States
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