Tim Gearan, Zak Trojano opens

When:
Saturday, Jul 09, 2016 8:00p -
5:00p

Where:
Club Passim
47 Palmer Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$18-20

Categories:
Music

Event website:
http://passim.org/club/tim-gearan-zak-trojano-opens

Named "Residency King of the Hub", and said to be "just too talented to remain a local hero" by The Boston Globe; Tim Gearan, the Boston based singer-songwriter, was awarded Unsung Hero at the Boston Music Awards in 2004, as well as Best Ongoing Residency in 2012 and continues to be nominated for BMAs today.

After 10 years of touring nationally and abroad as a sideman guitarist for Tony Lynn Washington, Gearan settled down in Somerville, Massachusetts and performs his own music with a remarkable band of Boston MVPs almost exclusively, occasionally stripping down his songs in to a full house.

Gearan has been regular guest of local super-groups Session Americana, the Sea Monsters and the Treat Her Right. He ahs been acclaimed for his performance of Hades in Anais Mitchell's folk opera, Hadestown, toured to Scotland with Kris Delmhorst, Alastair Moock and Rose Polenzani as part of a project called the "Boston T Party," and continues to collaborate with an amaement of artists in Boston and beyond.

"He's like an eclectic Little Feat, hitting on different geres from bluesy slide-guitar workouts, to New Orleans Swing, funky soul, country-jazz, and even a touch of Tex-Mex. Gearan has never been bound by formula and that's the key." - Steve Morse

https://timgearan1.bandcamp.com/

Zak Trojano is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a finger-style guitar player, a fly-fisherman, and a beer drinker. He watches more than he talks, the guy at the end of the bar nursing a drink while the afternoon light angles in, letting the conversation pile up around him like snowfall. He grew up in New Hampshire, outside of town in a cabin built by his parents. His father was a drummer who held down a regular country gig, and nights after work he would loosen his tie and show his son the finer points of Ginger Baker and Elvin Jones. In New Hampshire they drove around in trucks, and Prine and Dylan cassettes showed up in most of those trucks. Zak made Eagle Scout, got his knots down. Then it was college and out, wandering the country from the desert Southwest to Great Plains until he ran out of money, washing windows to work up the bus fare home. After a while it seemed like he ought to write some songs, and he did: heavy songs with a light touch; an AM radio throwback voice and an intricate finger-style technique framed by a drummer’s rhythm and sharpened by years of immersion in the work of players as various as John Fahey, Merle Travis, and Chet Atkins. In over a decade writing, recording, and performing music professionally - sharing studios and stages with his band Rusty Belle, or supporting touring acts like Chris Smither, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and Peter Mulvey - Zak Trojano has evolved his own thing: a warm baritone paired with an old Martin guitar, floating above spare lines of cello and lap steel, horns and brushes, with a deceptively simple lyricism that on repeated listening shows that the fellow at the end of the bar doesn’t say much, but he’s worth hearing.

http://www.zaktrojano.com/

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