The enigmatic, long-running experimental improvisational collective Sunburned Hand of the Man plays Saturday at 7:00.
No opener, it's all Sunburned.
Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Advance sales will close at midnight the day before the show, or when 40 tickets are sold.It's looking (surprisingly!), like there may be several tickets available at the door (cash only).Throughout the mid-’90s, Sunburned represented New England’s “free rock” contingency, and the “free folk” — sometimes misnomered “freak folk” — era described by David Keenan’s 2003 article ‘New Weird America’ in British music magazine The Wire.According to Sean Kitching, writing in The Quietus in 2016, “Sunburned at their best are capable of taking the listener on a shamanic, boogie-fueled trip outside of quotidian reality. Live shows blend monstrous tectonics of rhythm, caustic guitar, echoing phased vocals, insect electronics, and kitchen sink instrumentation that collide in an ecstatic racket.”Sounds like it'll be a seven-piece ensemble for this show, a number of them multi-instrumentalists — we're looking at guitars, bass, drums, synths, electronics, vocals, turntables, hand percussion, and at least three saxes.It's going to be a loud one.
And then on Sunday March 15, something completely different: Internationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto.
Hiroya is a one-of-a-kind musician and composer — an eclectic, immersive, mesmerizing guitarist who takes audiences on an innovative, impressionistic journey filled with earthy, organic soundscapes rich in subtle detail. A dizzyingly agile fingerpicker who always chooses beauty over bombast, his transcendent performances combine instrumental guitar work with lyrical performance and spoken stories.His new album, Rainshadow, just came out in January.Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, he received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and came to the US. Since then he has been performing internationally including at the United Nations, the Blue Note in New York, and on Japanese National Television.“Delicate, fluid, and beautifully detailed.” — Acoustic Guitar MagazineHiroya will be pleased to meet and greet with the audience after the performance. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance tickets guarantee admission. The performance will be recorded and filmed.Hiroya will also provide an opportunity of special interest to fingerstyle players of all levels of ability and accomplishment — an informal masterclass beginning at 11:00 AM, preceding his matinee concert.
Then there's three shows coming up in April, all of them matinees and all of them landing somewhere between excellent and superb.
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Also, at the end of April (on the 29th), the first of four Wednesday classic movies that we're sponsoring at the Bellows Falls Opera House this year.
We partnered with Dave & Sharon Pelland, Rick Holloway, Chrisman Kearn, Andrew Dey, Circuits in the Woods, WOOL-FM, some anonymous angels, and Rockingham Entertainment Development to be able to pull this off.
