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House Concert: Dancing Strings and Musical Feet
This will be an acoustic show in a private residence in Tacoma, WA. The address will be shared with ticket buyers as well as a contact phone number for any questions. The show will have open seating, and children are welcome if they can sit and listen quietly for two sets. Seating is limited to 30. An optional potluck dinner will precede the show - bring whatever you like! (email for more info on that)
Date: Saturday, April 16th
Time: 7:30 pm - ~ 9:30 pm (session to follow, if there's interest, so bring your instruments just in case)
Tickets: sliding scale $15 - $20 per person (this quartet is top-tier, so if you can afford to pay $20 for this wonderful evening, you'll be helping support their tour a bit more and thank you!)
Dancing Strings & Musical Feet
A creative collaboration of sonic interplay between musicians of disparate backgrounds with kindred souls. 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 shapes and tunings, cittern and bouzouki, amidst step dances and sean-nòs dancing, the improvised old style dancing of Ireland. Come prepared for a journey through scenic but surprising musical terrain, with a few unexpected twists and turns.
Your musical tour guides...
TIM CONNELL is 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 graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and a virtuoso mandolinist with over twenty years professional performing experience, Tim has created a sophisticated and original global style on the mandolin. Widely regarded as the top North American interpreter of the Brazilian choro style 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 artist KIERAN JORDAN is 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 for sean-nós dance 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 and sean-nós dance 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 FIBISH and BRUCE VICTOR are NOCTAMBULE. Based in San Francisco, they play original and traditional music in a variety 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 on guitars in creative tunings, mandola, mandolin, bouzouki, cittern, tenor guitar, and their blended voices. The name NOCTAMBULE, French for 'night-owl, comes from a Robert Service poem about a nocturnal ramble through 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
"The arrangements 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 FIBISH is 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 with Out of the Rain, and Three 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 VICTOR is an eclectic and accomplished guitarist and composer, who plays several different guitars in several different tunings. Seemingly resisting any single musical genre, he has been labeled a 'poly-stylist by one of the editors of Acoustic Guitar magazine. He has played with The Sirens of San Francisco, The Triplicates, and as a solo performer. He was the founder of The Acoustic 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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LocationMy living room (View)
Address will be provided upon ticket purchase
Tacoma, WA 98405
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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