Experimental composers and improvisers, one running her bassoon through pedals and amplification and the other performing a piece which aims to deconstruct his trumpet into its constituent parts — air, metal, and saliva.
Reverb-drenched distorted garage rock. Adam Smith’s noise rock band Great Dads opens.
DOOMSTAR! - Rainbow Bloodsucker
DOOMSTAR! - End Of The World
Great Dads - Pray To Your Riches
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This Brooklyn band plays indie rock in the template of Modest Mouse. Except, uh, bigger and meaner and able to rip your ass in half if you piss it off, which not going to this is almost certain to do. Also featuring the somewhat less intimidating Birdshit.
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Danny Beirne — best known as the flamboyant redhead pianist who kept the Skip Castro Band’s shows interesting through the 80’s and most recently seen in Charlottesville onscreen playing his keyboard with his butt in the Live From… The Hook rockumentary — returns from his new home in Ohio with original tunes and covers by Hank and Muddy Waters for his first local show since 2004. Check out a dinnertime set at 7, and then the hair starts flying for the rock show at 9:30.
Danny Beirne - Picturing Changes
Danny Beirne - Party Boy
Danny Beirne - Everything
Danny Beirne - Blue Dan
Danny Beirne - Bad Things
Danny Beirne - 2000 Days
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Singer-songwriter Clarence Green’s long-running Downbeat Project plays pop and light rock with occasional tropical Caribbean and calypso glimmers, all wrapped up in emotional lyrics addressing themes like love and war and race. At this show they’ll be releasing their new album Rise, their first output since inducting longtime collaborator Billy Cardine as a full-fledged member.
The Downbeat Project - I Want You [live at Is Venue, RIP]
The Downbeat Project - Heaven
The Downbeat Project - He Lost Faith
The Downbeat Project - Back Home
Os Magrelos start things off.
Experimental improvisations on sax and bassoon, including pieces by UVA professors Judith Shatin and fellow performer Matthew Burtner as well as one by modern minimalist master Terry Riley. Also featuring appearances by some of UVA’s computer music students.
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If you haven’t had enough hippie yet and somehow haven’t been incapacitated by the expected death-fog of weed smoke, you might make your way downtown to remedy both at this after-party performance by white-boy African fusion crew Toubab Krewe, who merge music from West Africa and the States. Expect instruments you don’t recognize (such as the kora and kamelengoni) alongside those you do (electric bass and guitars), all woven together with complex polyrhythms and griot delivery.
Toubab Krewe - Buncombe To Badala [live]
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Another dark folk and bluegrass project from Greg Jamie, guitarist and lead singer of New York hybrid folk band O Death. Sacred Harp opens.
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