Jayme Stone's Lomax Project

When:
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2015 8:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Park Avenue Congregational Church
50 Paul Revere Road
Arlington, MA 02476

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Admission:
$10-20

Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Music, Nightlife, Performing Arts, r/BostonSocialClub

Event website:
https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/

Jayme Stone (banjo) | Margaret Glaspy (voice) | Brittany Haas (fiddle) | Eli West (guitar, voice) | Joe Phillips (bass)
http://jaymestone.com/projects/lomaxproject

Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboratory brings together some of North America's most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanties, African-American acappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, prisoners and homemakers. The new album will be out on Borealis Records on March 3, 2015.


An acetate disc-cutter and cactus needle stylus. The rutted roads of eastern Kentucky and the Georgia Sea Island coastline. Kitchen din and street noise. Songs everyone has come to know—and the storied singers nearly everyone has forgotten.


“We’re here to renew this material.”The material in question—sea shanties, cowboy ballads, ox-driving songs, Southern spirituals—helped shape the mid-century folk revival and more recent Americana. Stone, by virtue of his instrument, has long studied traditional music but it has remained underexplored in his award-winning albums. Stone traveled to Mali (and made field recordings of his own) to engage with the banjo’s long-lost cousins. He composed original pieces that edged far closer to contemporary classical sounds than traditional folk ones. Now it’s time for his homecoming.


Stone and company have delved into the vast, worldwide trove of Lomax recordings and found a deeply emotional access to these tunes and songs on Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis Records; release: March 3, 2015). Just in time for the Lomax centenary this year, the release includes a 54-page booklet with song notes by Stone, an introduction by Grammy-winning music scholar Stephen Wade, and a photo essay by longtime Nonesuch photographer Michael Wilson.The songs hail from sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, homemakers, prisoners and farmers: “extraordinary, everyday folks making homemade, handmade music,”


Founded in 2007, notloB Music has presented more than 150 folk, old-time, blue grass, string band and Celtic concerts in unique venues throughout the greater Boston area. Concerts in your home can be arranged.
Website - https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/
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Twitter - https://twitter.com/notlobpresents
Eventbrite (tickets) - http://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-music-presents-6730833315
Mail Chimp (mailing list) - http://tinyurl.com/notlobmail


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