Tangential Festival
Friday April 18-24th 2008
Friday April 18-24th 2008
Bohemian National Home
Phone: 313.737.6606
Phone: 313.737.6606
3009 Tillman
Detroit, MI 48216
"Folk music doesn't mean what it used to; here's six nights of acts from around the country and right here in Detroit that defy easy categorization. Drawing on influences that range from acoustic psyche to ethnic folkloric, these revivalist and innovators share a love of raw roots music in all its forms.
Friday, April 18:
The Volebeats, Misty Lyn and the Big Beautiful $7
Rock bands with country music hearts! Featuring the venerable gents of The Volebeats in a fairly rare performance. Misty Lyn and the Big Beautiful play melancholy songs that pair rootsy, acoustic Americana with electric guitar, pedal steel and cello.
Saturday, April 19
Nick Schillace CD release show with Eric Carbonara, Mike Tamburo $7
Great night of Tocoma style finger-picking guitar and trance inducing dulcimer. I think I'll be sitting in on Nick's set, playing music (from our tour as Duo Au Duos) that blends folk techniques and improvisation. Traditional and experimental acoustic music also figure into the music of Pittsburgh's Mike Tamburo, who has recently been pursuing the hammer dulcimer as his main instrument. Eric Carbonara is currently on tour with Nick; he favors the classical guitar nylon-string sound, and draws influence from Flamenco music, but creates original music that is spare and develops gradually.
SundayApril 20:
Tipton Saxophone Quartet, Frank Pahl's Scavenger Trio, Orpehum Bell $7-10
Formerly The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, the Tiptons are an all female saxophone group that plays a wide variety of music. For this show, they'll pull heavily from their ethnic folkloric bag, with traditional Macedonian and Bulgariian brass tunes. Frank Pahl is one of Detroit's most unique musicians who spans several generes. For this night's performance, he's pulling out our aggregate The Scavenger Trio with Marko Novachcoff and myself. The focus will be on Frank's great instrumental compositions in our two-man one-man-band configuration, with Marko on misc. winds and cello. Orpheum Bell utilize unusual instruments like saw, auto harp and clarinet to create a music that is both old-timey and unexpected.They have a picture of a strohviol on their website; could we have two bands in one night that perform on this rare instrument?
Monday, April 21:
Jennie Knaggs and the Sure Shots, Renee Bertsch, Matt Jones $6
Jennie Knaggs is Detroit's honky tonk and western swing singer par excellence. Her new group The Sure Shots features Nick Schillace and myself backing her up on a set of originals, coutry classics and labor tunes. Renee Bertsch plays hauntingly simple original songs with a mostly electric band. Great writing that calls to mind Oldham, Edith Frost and Tara Jane O Neal.Matt Jones
Tuesday, April 22:
American Mars, Birdgang $6
For more than a decade, American Mars have mined song-writerly rock music like The Replacements, The Jayhawks and Ryan Adams to create accessable, electric roots music. Tasty pedal-steel is supplied by Dave Feeny, the man who gave me my start in Detroit rock! Birdgang have pop overtones that recall the softer, introspective moments of the British Invasion.
Wednesday, April 23:
Jack Rose, D.Charles Speer and the Helix (members of Sunburned Hand of the Man and No Neck Blues Band) $8
Ex-Pelt guitarist Jack Rose has established himself leading exponent of American Primitive guitar. The techniques of great Country Blues musicians like Charle Patton and Blind Willie Johnson collide with the more experimental tendancies of John Fahey and Robbie Basho.
The members of D. Charles Speer and the Helix are best known for their experimental work in the groups The No Neck Blues Band and Sun Burned Hand of the Man, but have changed course into blues and folk music. Mr.Speers vocals are well suited to the new direction; his rich baritone sounds suprisingly natural in this context
Thursday, April 24: Jewels and Binoculars: Lindsey Horner, Michael Moore, Michael Vatcher play music of Bob Dylan $10 suggested
This trio of improvisers close out the festival with a set of the music of Bob Dylan radically recontextualized. New York bassist Lindsey Horner, who's played with Muhal Richard Abrahms and Bill Frisell, teams up with Amsterdam ex-pats Michael Moore (Han Bennink, Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway) on reeds and Michael Vatcher (John Handy, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Tristan Honsinger) on percussion.
An emblematic end to the week!
Buy 3 or more shows in advance for $5 each.
Available at Bohemian National Home.
Doors for all shows at 8:30 pm.
Detroit, MI 48216
"Folk music doesn't mean what it used to; here's six nights of acts from around the country and right here in Detroit that defy easy categorization. Drawing on influences that range from acoustic psyche to ethnic folkloric, these revivalist and innovators share a love of raw roots music in all its forms.
Friday, April 18:
The Volebeats, Misty Lyn and the Big Beautiful $7
Rock bands with country music hearts! Featuring the venerable gents of The Volebeats in a fairly rare performance. Misty Lyn and the Big Beautiful play melancholy songs that pair rootsy, acoustic Americana with electric guitar, pedal steel and cello.
Saturday, April 19
Nick Schillace CD release show with Eric Carbonara, Mike Tamburo $7
Great night of Tocoma style finger-picking guitar and trance inducing dulcimer. I think I'll be sitting in on Nick's set, playing music (from our tour as Duo Au Duos) that blends folk techniques and improvisation. Traditional and experimental acoustic music also figure into the music of Pittsburgh's Mike Tamburo, who has recently been pursuing the hammer dulcimer as his main instrument. Eric Carbonara is currently on tour with Nick; he favors the classical guitar nylon-string sound, and draws influence from Flamenco music, but creates original music that is spare and develops gradually.
SundayApril 20:
Tipton Saxophone Quartet, Frank Pahl's Scavenger Trio, Orpehum Bell $7-10
Formerly The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, the Tiptons are an all female saxophone group that plays a wide variety of music. For this show, they'll pull heavily from their ethnic folkloric bag, with traditional Macedonian and Bulgariian brass tunes. Frank Pahl is one of Detroit's most unique musicians who spans several generes. For this night's performance, he's pulling out our aggregate The Scavenger Trio with Marko Novachcoff and myself. The focus will be on Frank's great instrumental compositions in our two-man one-man-band configuration, with Marko on misc. winds and cello. Orpheum Bell utilize unusual instruments like saw, auto harp and clarinet to create a music that is both old-timey and unexpected.They have a picture of a strohviol on their website; could we have two bands in one night that perform on this rare instrument?
Monday, April 21:
Jennie Knaggs and the Sure Shots, Renee Bertsch, Matt Jones $6
Jennie Knaggs is Detroit's honky tonk and western swing singer par excellence. Her new group The Sure Shots features Nick Schillace and myself backing her up on a set of originals, coutry classics and labor tunes. Renee Bertsch plays hauntingly simple original songs with a mostly electric band. Great writing that calls to mind Oldham, Edith Frost and Tara Jane O Neal.Matt Jones
Tuesday, April 22:
American Mars, Birdgang $6
For more than a decade, American Mars have mined song-writerly rock music like The Replacements, The Jayhawks and Ryan Adams to create accessable, electric roots music. Tasty pedal-steel is supplied by Dave Feeny, the man who gave me my start in Detroit rock! Birdgang have pop overtones that recall the softer, introspective moments of the British Invasion.
Wednesday, April 23:
Jack Rose, D.Charles Speer and the Helix (members of Sunburned Hand of the Man and No Neck Blues Band) $8
Ex-Pelt guitarist Jack Rose has established himself leading exponent of American Primitive guitar. The techniques of great Country Blues musicians like Charle Patton and Blind Willie Johnson collide with the more experimental tendancies of John Fahey and Robbie Basho.
The members of D. Charles Speer and the Helix are best known for their experimental work in the groups The No Neck Blues Band and Sun Burned Hand of the Man, but have changed course into blues and folk music. Mr.Speers vocals are well suited to the new direction; his rich baritone sounds suprisingly natural in this context
Thursday, April 24: Jewels and Binoculars: Lindsey Horner, Michael Moore, Michael Vatcher play music of Bob Dylan $10 suggested
This trio of improvisers close out the festival with a set of the music of Bob Dylan radically recontextualized. New York bassist Lindsey Horner, who's played with Muhal Richard Abrahms and Bill Frisell, teams up with Amsterdam ex-pats Michael Moore (Han Bennink, Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway) on reeds and Michael Vatcher (John Handy, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Tristan Honsinger) on percussion.
An emblematic end to the week!
Buy 3 or more shows in advance for $5 each.
Available at Bohemian National Home.
Doors for all shows at 8:30 pm.