$10-15 Cover @ the Door / Start 8pm / Doors 7:30pm / Seated Show
A night of “electric and exhilarating” solo piano music, stories from the road, and reflections on landscape by one-of-a-kind composer/performer Ben Cosgrove, who has spent the last decade in near-constant motion, writing instrumental music about the physical environments he encounters along the way.
“Stupidly talented.” — Red Line Roots
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment in North America. Ben has performed his "electric and exhilarating" instrumental music in every U.S. state except Delaware and Hawaii, and held artist residencies and fellowships with institutions including the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. His recent album "Salt," which compares feelings of ungroundedness and confusion to landscapes of flux and ambiguity, was described by Seven Days as a "majestic entry into the composer's catalog... replete with near-imperceptible embellishments and forward-thinking concepts." Junction Magazine called the album "a poetry of tones and turns and motion and play that transcends the gross signification of everyday language," and both Sound of Boston and Red Line Roots deemed it one of the best local releases of the year. In addition to his solo work, Ben is known for his collaborations with artists including Max Garcia Conover, Palaver Strings, the Maine Youth Rock Orchestra, and the Ghost of Paul Revere.
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