Saturday September 28 2024
Doors 7 PM, music 7:30
Free admission, all donations to the musicians
RSVP: rsvp@chromatic-studios.com
John Burdick is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, sideman, and prolific music critic in New York’s mid-Hudson valley. For over 15 years, he has led the New Paltz-based stumble-pop quintet The Sweet Clementines, a unique guitar rock group augmented with vibraphone, violin, sophisticated vocal arrangements and elements of chamber music and improvisation, all in support of a large collection of elegant and original songs.
In addition to countless mid-Hudson valley projects, John has performed and recorded with the well-known singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson and with Rhett Miller of the Old 97’s, with whom he recently composed music for Marvel’s popular Wastelanders: Wolverine radio drama podcast. He has composed music for numerous theatrical productions and for corporate projects as well. He also played lead guitar on two Grammy-nominated albums by the Okee Dokee Brothers.
In the past few years, John has released two EPs, Birds and Birds, and Happy for Both (the latter under the name Macrofone, a duo project with Real Estate drummer Sammi Niss). The Sweet Clementines are currently at work on their third full length.
“I hear my music as way, way downstream from the Beatles,” he says, “picking up a lot of noise from classical music, folk, cabaret, experimental, and all manner of eccentric rock and pop along the way. In this self-branded duo with vocalist and violinist Marianne Tasick, I get to emphasize all my newest material, much of it composed on keys. The focus is on the lucid delivery of the songs, but there is just enough arrangement, orchestration, and improvisation to keep it interesting, somewhere in the middle between band and solo performance.”
johnburdick.bandcamp.com
the sweet clementines.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH7K-o0lr6GyFxVxYCxnjya7pMRBEFPSp
Bibi Farber is a performing songwriter from NYC who has spent years in notable rock bands, performing and recording with Richard Lloyd (Television), who produced her CD, Firepop and played fierce guitar throughout, Dennis Diken (Smithereens), Ira Elliot (Nada Surf), Joe McGinty (Losers Lounge), Tammy Faye Starlight, Peter Stuart and many others. Her songs have been used over 300 times in TV shows (Cable, Network and PBS), as well as online (A&E promo for The Sopranos, Scrubs: Season Two, Popular (Disney) and commercials, including a national spot for Kodak. Bibi has released 3 full length albums and several singles; see https://bibifarber.com/original-music
Rob Norris is best known as the bassist for The Bongos, the founding fathers of the ’80’s Hoboken indie-music scene, and Hudson Valley based Tulula! Over the years Rob has played with Donovan, Damo Suzuki (Can), Garth Hudson (Band), Steve Holley (Wings), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), David Johansen (NY Dolls), Carlos Alomar (Bowie), Marshall Crenshaw, Moby, Indie supergroup East Of Venus (Feelies, Bongos, Winter Hours), Myra Melford, Frank Bango, OmU (who twice toured in Cuba) and Blue Paradox (serving the Sacred Fire Community), as well as members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, Throbbing Gristle, The B-52’s, Television, Osibisa, The Velvet Underground and countless others; see https://soundcloud.com/robbassman-1.
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