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Eugene Chadbourne
with Protruders, Holiday Rambler and Mermaids
All Ages
$10 advance, $12 door
Band Details
From the Promoter
Feast In The East is a bi-monthly east end music, food, & art installation series.
This month features a free dinner by Dan Bedard.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE (eugenechadbourne.com)
American banjo & guitar virtuoso Eugene Chadbourne twists folk, country, blues & bluegrass traditions through a gnarly avant jazz & ranging free improv grinder. Morphing classic tunes into bizarre banjo shred tongue in cheek rippers. Chadbourne's lyrics mine a comically dark side or his reality playing on the warped traditional structure they live in. A true master of essence, he adopts genres capturing their being while pulling it apart. Chadbourne has collaborated with such heavy weights as John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Jimmy Carl Black, Fred Frith, and local legend Michael Snow. For this show he will preform solo & followed by a short impov. set.
PROTRUDERS (protruders.bandcamp.com)
Fuzzed out crunchy punks bring the raw chaos in their latest quartet format. Angular guitars laced in distortion rip against blasting percussion. Gurgling feedback & slithering electronic manipulations fills the underbelly of this raw rocker scene. An unhinged party band. Primitive in vibe Protruders slips hints of no wave into their crafted junk store jammers.
HOLIDAY RAMBLER (qualityco.co)
D. Alex Meeks (of Hooded Fang) solo guitar project rides again. Bouncing guitar notes roll along like tumble weeds, as Mr. Meeks spins his folk songs intrenched in the spirit of the american south. His lyrics, smart, cautious, and full of unbridled honesty, like a Flannery O’Connor novel he weaves religion, family and the future of the world as we know it, into something human and tangible. Intricate repetitive plucking dot Holiday Rambler’s songs like stars in the sky, all in the right place, so natural their placement seems accidentally. Languid emotions float gently over the simplicity of an acoustic guitar. Holiday Rambler is the everyman that died long ago, the tradition your grandparents remembered, but your parent discarded. Lose yourself in these lost hymns. Eat your heart out computer music.
MERMAIDS
Psychedelic folk ensemble featuring Janet Macpherson (vocals), Martin Arnold (Banjo), Kurt Newman (pedal steel) and the infamous Ryan Driver (analog synth) reinterpret traditional folk song & ballads from the British Isles. Watch as the minds of Toronto's great contrarians go to work on British tradition in what can only be described as a cacophonous rebirth effort. Don't miss it!
Environs by Sebastian Butt
Free dinner with adv. ticket!
Feast In The East is made possible through support from the Toronto Arts Council and Wellington Brewery