$15 Cover @ the Door ($10 Students) / Start 12:30pm / Doors 12pm / Seated Show
Versatile quintet Know Orchestra presents new cross-genre songs with quirky texts. Opening are rock singer-songwriter duo items and midi marimba/cello power duo Goli.
Know Orchestra
Know Orchestra is a quintet of violin, cello, clarinet, piano, percussion, and voice. Formed as a trio in 2001, they have done projects ranging from in-the-moment settings of Kerouac texts to microtonal music to interactive children’s concerts. This current project features happy songs inspired by exhaustion, overwhelm, and living with the reality of death. The lyrics are webs of rhymes, puns, and word play in the spirit of rap, mid-career Paul Simon, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Dr. Seuss. The music blends the colors and nuances of chamber music with the energy and spontaneity of experimental jazz and free improv.
Todd Brunel, Bb and bass clarinet, alto sax
Gary Fieldman, percussion
Ima Jonsdottir, violin and voice
Valerie Thompson, cello and voice
Dan Shaud, piano and voice
danshaud.bandcamp.com/album/now-now
Goli
Goli is:
• The project of Vessela Stoyanova (MIDI-Marimba & melodica) and Valerie Thompson (cello & voice)
• A duo of misfit classical musicians with an appetite for world music that has cut its teeth in rock bands, world folk ensembles, symphony orchestras and the occasional free improv outlet.
• Chamber music for a modern era.
• Wrestling with the universal subjects of death and getting laid while playing the cello and marimba.
• More naked than naked when they wear all their clothes.
• Waiting to make music for you.
items
Based in Cambridge MA, “items” is a musical collaboration between composer Curtis Hughes (www.curtiskhughes.com) and storyteller Doria Hughes (www.doriastories.com), with frequent special guests including percussionist Aaron Trant. By day, Curtis composes avant-garde-tinged instrumental music for chamber ensembles, while Doria tells traditional folk tales to audiences of all ages, but as “items” they impersonate a seasoned guitar-driven singer-songwriter duo of enigmatic and mercurial stylistic proclivities.
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