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Kapsalis / Ivanovic Duo
Sunday September 5 5pm @ the Chailey Mansion (not at the gallery). Donations appreciated.
An afternoon and evening of great performances featuring the Kapsalis / Ivanovic Duo, the ever popular/unpredictable birdorgan. Throw in two performance/noise artists also from ME and a couple more locals. All this and more … live video projection by Greg Kowalski. Potluck, bring a dish to share.
Kapsalis / Ivanovic Duo [Chicago]
birdorgan [NH, MA]
Theft Able / Wright Duo [ME, MA]
Crank Sturgeon [ME]
Stephanie Lak [Lowell]
(preliminary schedule, performers listed in reverse order)
Andreas Kapsalis and Goran Ivanovic represent the perfect alliance of ten-fingered guitar virtuosity, outstanding melodic themes, and dynamic rhythmic variations. Kapsalis’ Spanish-inflected playing complements their previously unexplored style that challenges the boundaries of pop music structure, juxtaposing his style with the world renowned Serbian compositional and improvisational mind Goran Ivanovic. Goran’s unique and rarely found talents set you forth on a cinematic array of emotions. Sophisticated, yet rebellious, this acoustic ensemble nods its head towards tradition but totally disregards technical conventions. They experiment in the melding of classical, various styles of traditional folk, and rock music, each receiving equal time.
Produced by 119 Gallery and Greg Kowalski. For more info email.
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The Horror, The Horror
Monday September 6 6pm, donations appreciated. This an early show, so come early!
The Horror, The Horror [Asheville NC]
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Hott Tubb [PA]
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one more local band
Produced by Olivia of the Sock Hop.
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CASA
Friday September 10 7pm.
C.A.S.A is an association where students and other interested persons come together to express their thoughts and concerns about Cambodia; her culture, tradition, and language. Although C.A.S.A’s origin is a state’s university and is a student organization, anyone who is interested is more than welcome to be part of.
C.A.S.A’s purpose is “to promote Khmer culture, tradition, and language. Also, the organization hopes to encourage open forum for discussion of Cambodia’s Arts, History, and her People. Additionally, members will strive extensively to integrade their knowledge of Kampuchea with the western society while seeking to further understand the roots of their ancestry.”
Appalachia Rising: Stories from the Mountain
Saturday September 11 7pm, $5-10 donation suggested.
Featuring the work of local photographer Rana Xavier
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Squinch Owl [NY, MA]
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Avi Jacob [Boston MA]
Mountaintop removal mining does not only level peaks, poison air and water, and fill valleys– it also destroys communities and cultures. Appalachians have chronicled the history of their mountains and the fight against strip mining through visual art, song and writing for generations. As activists from other places have come to stand in solidarity with the people of the mountains, they too have produced creative works about the issue.
Join us today, and stand in solidarity with the people of our Appalachian Mountain Communities, who won’t stand idly by as their land, water, and health are blasted and poisoned away.
All proceeds go to Appalachia Rising the largest ever gathering of those opposed to mountain top removal happening September 25-27 in Washington DC.
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Devil Eyes + Loup-Garou + Stephanie Lak
Thursday September 16 7pm, donations for DE & 119 appreciated. Early show, come early!
Devil Eyes [Montreal CA]
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Loup-Garou featuring Mike Dailey & Emily Jayne [Lowell, Montreal CA]
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Stephanie Lak [Lowell]
“…raboteux, cru, sale, méchant, dans ta face.” - Bang Bang
“…a bone-melting full-length incorporating sultry blues, garage and swamp rock that will shake your soul. ” - Magnet Magazine
“…a scabrous mix of overdriven guitars and unhinged vocals on songs straight out of whatever primeval swamp first unleashed garage rock.” - listendammit.com
“…plus amusant qu’un baril de singes” - Voir
“Devil Eyes pay homage to the lineage of truly raucous rock ’n’ roll… 8/10″ - Montreal Mirror
Here’s a track
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F.O.B. Clothing
Friday September 17 7:30-11pm
Free, fun FOB event to give back to our supporters.
Guest performers from Boston, MA coming down to bless the building with energy and music!!!
more info soon …
Soriah with Ashkelon Sain + Ajda the Turkish Queen
Friday July 30 8pm, donation at the door.
The unique vision of the Portland musician and ritual artist known as SORIAH draws from performance and musical traditions both ancient and modern–raga, shamanism, the revisionist arts of electro-acoustics, noise, butoh, and free improvisation.
Soriah is a practitioner of traditional Tuvan (Mongolian) throat singing, in which two or more pitches are sung as overtones. While the underpinnings of Soriah’s music reach back to Centr…al Asia, he traces his roots back to his father’s homeland of Mexico. His explorations of the cities and wilderness of Mexico and research into the Aztec mysteries have deeply affected his pan-cultural ethos.
Through costume, movement and mediation, Soriah evokes an otherworld of profound mystical import. Since 2008, Soriah has collaborated with musician/ producer ASHEKELON SAIN, bringing their work to a higher level of artistic and spiritual expression. Soriah and Ashkelon Sain will perform at 119 Gallery in Lowell on July 30 and at Lindsay Chapel at First Church of Cambridge on July 31. On Sunday afternoon, August 1, Soriah will lead a workshop in Tuvan throat singing at the YMCA in Cambridge.
Ajda the Turkish Queen is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist originally from Houston, Texas. An unconventional approach to writing and playing music has led Ajda to experiment with unique instrumentation, gratifying the natural desire to collect numerous instruments that afford her an arsenal of sounds. Many of her instruments were gifts, or somehow randomly appeared in her life. Her current focus lies with her band Black Fortress of Opium, and in solo endeavors. “[A] powerful, often sultry voice accompanied only by a mandolin…lulling you into a sort of dream state”-Kevin Renick, Playback StL.
For more information–
on Soriah, on Ajda, on this series of events
Lowell Poetry Network
Thursday July 29 6:30pm
Monthly meeting and open mic.
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Lowell Folk Festival Weekend
Friday - Sunday July 23 - 25 Gallery open through the weekend, donations welcome.
Friday July 23
12:00pm Members’ Exhibit featuring work by 40 local and regional artists.
6:30pm UNUNI - kittens caught in a wood chipper [Fitchburg]
8:00pm Loup-Garou - arnica montana [Lowell's Lower Highlands]
9:00pm Joe Brown - guitar, vocals [Lowell]
10:00pm Gaetana - guitar, vocals [Leominster]
11:00pm Stephanie Lak Band - dark side of folk [Lowell & Beyond]
Saturday July 24
12:00pm Members’ Exhibit featuring work by 40 local and regional artists.
7:00pm The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities - alight as the hours burn your hair white [CT, NY]
8:00pm The Doctors Fox - world music [Boston MA]
9:00pm birdorgan - funked up folk [Lowell, Manchester NH]
10:00pm Andrea Pensado - cosmic comics [Salem MA]
11:00pm PARADE!!!
Sunday July 25
12:00pm Members’ Exhibit featuring work by 40 local and regional artists.
Tatsuya Nakatani + Forbes Graham & Loup-Garou
Thursday July 22 8pm, $10 donation requested.
Tatsuya Nakatani - solo percussion [Easton PA]
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Loup-Garou: [Werewolf]
Setheyny Pen - toy pianos, drums
Walter Wright - electronics, video
featuring
Forbes Graham - trumpet
Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion, is originally from Osaka, Japan. In 2006 he performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD. He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. He has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Rakalam Bob Moses, Steve Lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, and Tatsuya Nakatani.
Here’s a link to Essenses a CD by Tatsuya and Forbes.
Produced by Vanessa LeFevre
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