"What if ..." festival
December 11 - 13, 2005
New York - Epistrophy Cafe
music:
Rachelle Garniez
Jenny Scheinman with Tony Scherr and Greg Cohen
Stephane Wrembel with Joel Beaver
END with Colin Stetson
Gary Lucas
Andy Statman
presentation
"E se ..."
Suoni, evocazioni e manufatti
Sounds, evocations and crafts.
To create a conductive thread.
A suggestion that succeeds in benumbing our restlessness.
Once called a dream, later someone had tried to use the word "ideal" ... and then, the feast arrives.
The festival constitutes elements of tradition and of the contemporary; it incorporates the dream, the ideal, the work, the research, and the feast.
Today however, it would be enough for us to be narrators,
the raconteurs of a thousand differents stories.
The word for these three days of festival will be the sound, the melody, the patchwork ... in short, the music.
The conductive thread, then, will be the quality of the "voice",
the intensity of the "sound," and the way of the telling,
describing the muscians living and sharing the cultures of their origins.
Luca Fadda
"What if ..."
Hey, what if ... ?
Jason Candler
Giorgia Zedda, Gavino, Dina e Giovanna Fadda, Franco e Lilli Zedda, Leonardo Lasagni, Sebastian Widmann, Enrico Ciotti, Manu Attala, Tom Briggs, Union Beer Distributors, Doug Principato.Day 1 - Sunday, December 11, 2005
9PM
Rachelle Garniez - vocals, accordion
Accordionist/vocalist/songwriter RACHELLE GARNIEZ is known as a "Diva with a Difference" and a "Master of Surprise". Wistful, witty, sardonic and sentimental; her tragi-comic story-songs channel influences including tango, klezmer, early jazz, blues, psychedelic rock & country & western.
www.rachellegarniez.com
10:15PM
Jenny Scheinman - violin
with Tony Scherr - guitar
Rachelle Garniez - accordion
Greg Cohen - contrabass
JENNY SCHEINMAN, violinist/composer, was voted the #1 Rising Star Violinist in the 2004 and 2003 Downbeat Critics' Polls, has performed and recorded extensively with Bill Frisell as well as Norah Jones, Vinicius Cantuaria, Madeleine Peyroux, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot and Myra Melford. She grew up playing folk music with her family in northern California, studied at Oberlin Conservatory, and has been performing as a jazz violinist since she was a teenager. In the last several years she has released three recordings of original music: Live at Yoshi's (Avant), The Rabbi's Lover (Tzadik) and, most recently, Shalagaster (Tzadik). A fourth CD, featuring Bill Frisell, Ron Miles, Doug Wieselman, Rachelle Garniez, Tim Luntzel and Dan Rieser, was released by Cryptogramophone in the summer of 2005.
www.jennyscheinman.com
Day 2 - Monday, December 12, 2005
9PM
Stephane Wrembel - guitar
with Joel Beaver - rhythm guitar
French guitarist and Hot Club of New York founding member, STEPHANE WREMBEL celebrates the tradition and virtuosity of Gypsy guitar while embracing jazz, world, bluegrass, folk, Latino and rock. Wrembel’s new album for Amoeba Music will be released in 2006, and will also feature legendary mandolin player David Grisman. They will start an international tour in January 2006.
www.stephanewrembel.com
10:15PM
END
Chalres Peirce - electronics
with Colin Stetson - saxophone
Writer and musician CHARLES PEIRCE records & performs under the alias END. Offering up a seductive and playful collage of music, he reworks a variety of genres and ideas -- from surf rock to lounge music to old sci-fi themes -- into a frenzied and unlikely mix of beats and electronics, spiced with a flamboyant party vibe straight out of a 60s B-movie. He has toured throughout Europe, the US, and Russia; composed music for independent film; and toured with Fantomas, Melt Banana, Snog, Kid 606 and Jason Forrest.
www.worldwentdown.com/end
Woodwind player COLIN STETSON plays powerfully while circularly breathing for long periods, draws multiphonics out of a sax with great skill, and commands an audience's attention with his focus and melodic improvisations.
www.colinstetson.com
9PM
Gary Lucas - acoustic & steel guitars
A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, an international recording artist with over a dozen acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move.
Dubbed “Guitarist of 1000 Ideas” by The New York Times, and “a true axe God” by Q, the British world music magazine fRoots recently hailed him as “without question, the most interesting and challenging guitarist playing today.” He was also cited recently by the editors of DownBeat as one of their “66 Hot 6-Stringers” alongside John McLaughlin, Richard Thompson, B.B King, Pat Metheny and others.
www.garylucas.com
10:15PM
Andy Statman - mandolin & clarinet
A formidable and consummate musician, Andy Statman is known for his musical wizardry on the mandolin, as well as his innovative interpretations of Jewish music on the clarinet. This program covers the genius of Statman from his distinctive improvisational renditions of Klezmer, music of the Chassidic masters, and American roots (bluegrass and blues) to original works drawing upon jazz and other traditions. "...a master of two idioms..." NY Times
www.andystatman.org
photo gallery
Jenny Scheinman, Greg Cohen, & Tony Scherr
Colin Stetson & Charles Peirce (END)
Jenny Scheinman & Rachelle Garniez
Gary Lucas
Andy Statman
Joel Beaver & Stephane Wrembel
