PERFORMERS
Liam Grant (American Primitive guitar stylist)
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant\'s pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape in which he ... view more »
PERFORMERS
Liam Grant (American Primitive guitar stylist)
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant\’s pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape in which he was raised. Personal instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the falls and black pearls from the river. The exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the Last Night on the Dead River before the great flood.
\”Although only 23 years old, Liam’s become a leading force in a much needed third wave revival of American Primitive music. Despite his age, Liam’s the very definition of \’an old soul\’ and while he draws on a wide variety of contemporary influences, he also channels a comprehensive history of the blues as well as a deeper energy that informs both his playing and songwriting.\” — Rob Vaughn, Portland, Oregon – July 2023
https://liamgrant.sound-o-mat.com/
Memoried Trio (Bahar Badieitabar – oud, Mahya Hamedi – voice, Guy Gottesfeld – guitar)
Memoried Trio compile musical beauty from Eastern and Western musical traditions, inviting pleasurable nostalgia and a relieving journey into the depth of memory. Mahya, a vocalist and pianist; Bahar, an oud player from Iran; and Guy, a guitar player with Persian heritage from Israel; formed the collective after their contribution to the Berklee two-track series, where they first demonstrated their prowess to uniquely ornament their compositions with their cultural influences. The trio’s music is a conversation spanning from contemporary jazz to traditional Persian music, from abstract introspection to personal life experiences, resulting in a vast sound rife with meaning, personal and universal.
The Memoried Trio is currently preparing for upcoming performances in Boston and Washington, DC. Additionally, they are in the process of recording and documenting their artwork.
Yoona Kim & Roman Barten-Sherman (Korean traditional folk meets Mississippi delta blues)
Yoona Kim is an ajaeng player, composer, and improviser from Seoul, South Korea who lives in Boston MA. Yoona’s mastery of Korean folk and court music styles was honed during years of rigorous study under master ajaeng performers Seo Kyeong Yoon and Gye Jong Jeong. Since coming to Boston in the Fall of 2021 for New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Master’s program, Yoona has become deeply ensconced in free improvisation, noise music, and traditional blues music. In recent years Yoona has studied with Joe Morris, Carla Kihlstedt and Stratis Minakakis and shared stages with Anthony Coleman, Satoshi Takeishi and Fay Victor. Yoona’s journey as a performing artist and composer has taken her across the world, with performances at venues such as the Sanders Theatre in Boston, The Stone in New York City, and the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City.Yoona continues to develop her style which synthesizes varied forms of traditional and improvised music with a critical focus on constructing radical non-linear temporalities. https://yoonakim.org/About
Roman Barten-Sherman is a Boston based guitarist, singer, and banjo player who performs American vernacular music inspired and informed by a lifelong exploration of pre-war country blues, ballads, and spirituals. Roman grew up in the high desert of Bisbee, Arizona; during formative travels to Mississippi, she learned the Bentonian blues style from Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, and the trance blues of Robert Belfour in Clarksdale juke joints. Her polyrhythmic guitar and banjo stylings and nuanced vocals have been honed through hundreds of performances to national and international audiences. https://www.romanbartensherman.com/
Yoona and Roman have been working together as a duo since the Fall of 2021, sonically moving between and beyond their respective realms of musical mastery. In their evocative collaboration, Yoona and Roman interpret and synthesize Korean folk music and American Blues, with a focus on the emotional depth and improvisational gestures that connect these disparate traditions together.
Beth Bahia Cohen
Beth Bahia Cohen is a violinist of Syrian Jewish and Russian Jewish heritage. Inspired at a young age by the sounds she heard at family gatherings, she went on to study with master musicians from Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. She plays the violin, viola, Greek lyras, Turkish bowed tanbur and kabak kemane, Norwegian hardingfele, and Egyptian rababa. https://eefc.org/teacher/beth-bahia-cohen/
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