Wednesday, May 29
Marisa Anderson + Footings
Sunday, June 2
The Julian Gerstin Sextet
Wednesday May 29 we are featuring two amazing musicians, Marisa Anderson + Footings (Eric Gagne solo guitar and vocals). Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone and 20th century classical music to compositions based on blues, jazz, gospel and country music, re-imagining the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, while NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’ . Her work has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, SPIN, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Her latest solo album, Still, Here, is out now on Thrill Jockey Records.
Footings is a musical project from Eric Gagne, a journeyman songwriter, singer, and guitarist who has been doing things out in the world since 2003. Footings is a natural progression from Eric’s earlier folk explorations in Redwing Blackbird and Passerine. This show will feature solo Footings, Eric Gagne playing guitar and singing songs with a sound that embraces a sort of inner light derived from folk music, but surrounds it with a variety of rockist tropes.
The Julian Gerstin Sextet
Global jazz, creative music with intense rhythms and engaging melodies
The songs are Julian’s original compositions based on a lifetime of living and working with musicians from the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East. You’ll hear drums from Martinique playing a rhythm from Bulgaria, or an Arabic classical form remade with rumba and blues. The musicians are strong, sophisticated and funky: pianist Eugene Uman, Artistic Director of the Vermont Jazz Center; clarinet virtuoso Anna Patton; bassist Wes Brown, a veteran of such jazz luminaries as Earl “Fatha” Hines, Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith; Ben James, John Tchicai's drummer for several years; and creative improvisor Don Anderson on trumpet.
