$15 Cover ($12 Students) / Start 8pm / Doors 7:45pm / Seated Show
Gapi (Piano and Gayageum duo) features complex and rich music spanning Jazz, Classical, and Korean traditions. Composed and improvised by Chase Morrin and DoYeon Kim, all new originals to be featured on their second album. This show will feature an opening act by Max Ridley and Zoe Rose duo featuring acoustic songs and more.
Gapi
Gapi (Gayageum & Piano), is a duo project developed to meld cultural styles of Korean and American music in a lyrical and improvised manner. The project centers around Morrin and Kim’s backgrounds in Jazz and Korean Folk respectively and is inspired by the freedom of improvised traditions, spanning rich modal harmonic landscapes and complex rhythmic grids, and challenging the traditions of both the Gayageum and Piano.
This ensemble started as a friendship and turned into a full fledged collaboration between us during the spring of 2016. The project is unique in combining music traditions from America and Korea through our shared musical interests and pedagogy. We are creating new music that challenges the technical range of the instruments as well as our respective cultural aesthetics and opening a dialogue about what cross-cultural communication means - something we sorely need nowadays. We spent numerous hours together writing music and orchestrating for our instruments, combining through-composed music with improvisation. We seek to send a message of connection, communication, and beauty.
Max Ridley & Zoe Rose
Max Ridley is a musician, composer and educator based in Boston. He was awarded full-tuition scholarships to study at Berklee College of Music for both an undergraduate and graduate degree, earning his graduate degree from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute under the direction of master pianist and educator Danilo Perez. He is the house bass player with the Jason Palmer Band and has shared the stage with renown musicians such as Jeff Coffin, Kenny Werner, Tia Fuller, Ralph Peterson, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jack Dejohnette, Bruce Molsky, Perico Sambeat, Walter Smith III and Jerry Bergonzi.
Zoe Rose is an Americana/Roots musician and has played the fiddle since she was 6 years old. Zoe Rose moved to Boston in 2013 and started to perform her original music shortly after through the Open Mic, D.I.Y., and underground punk scene in the city. These communities of musicians and artists are an integrally important part of de Paz’s music and her ability to cope with chronic depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Her projects have performed at Great Scott, Club Passim, Folk n Punk Festival, Dead of Summer Music Festival, and Indie Summit Music Fest . Her work has been featured in Vanyaland, WGBH, WMBR, WERS, WEMF, Boston Hassle, The Boston Compass, and Allston Pudding.