RTP-area local music and culture

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Hello,
There will be a show in Gerrard Hall on Nov. 17.  THE SHOW IS FREE
with a UNC One Card and only $5 for everyone else.  Information
follows.  Please spread the word as much as possible.  I'm sure the
title at lease will inspire sa

thanks
Aaron Smithers

WHEN:
Nov. 17, 2007  7:30 PM-10:00 PM
[doors at 6:30 PM]

WHERE:
Gerrard Hall
UNC-Chapel Hill
208 E. Cameron Rd. [Next to Memorial Hall, across from the Old Well]

ADMISSION:
FREE with UNC One Card
General admission $5.00

All are welcome at an evening concert of experimental,
electroacoustic, folk, and rock improvisation in historic Gerrard Hall
on UNC's campus on Saturday November 17 at 7:30 PM.  Performers
include: R. Keenan Lawler, Mike Tamburo, Horse Operas, and The Hem of
His Garment.  Gerrard Hall, originally built in 1822 as a campus
chapel, will provide an inspired setting for an evening of tonal and
melodic exploration.  The concert is FREE with a UNC One Card; general
admission is $5.00.  Presented by the Carolina Union Activities Board
[CUAB], the UNC Curriculum in Folklore, and WXYC 89.3 FM.

See bios below for more information.

Questions/Contact:
Aaron Smithers
ansmithers AT yahoo.com
919-593-7342

WHO:
R. KEENAN LAWLER: Kentucky's R. Keenan Lawler plays a 1920s resonator
guitar made of nickel-plated brass. Whether bowing his guitar with
both traditional long bows and multiple tiny hand bows or coaxing
piercing tones from his steel strings with an Ebow, Lawler's plays a
hybrid of folk and jazz that exhibits a disdain for expectations. Of
Lawler, Pitchfork Media said he was proof that "a shiny guitar can
become a magic wand."  According to Dusted, Lawler's 2006 record,
Music of the Bluegrass States, "runs through the sonic palette of
bluegrass music that lands us in the liminal zone between the urban,
the rural, and the suburban, between avant-garde 'incoherence' and the
comfort of traditional music...while Fahey's phraseology allowed each
passage to stretch out, breathe, and merge into the next, the faster
parts of Lawler's playing reveal figures that emerge from other
figures, melodies that aren't quite, because they occupy both the
negative and positive space of the song. Much could be written about
this clamoring polyphony in the context of bluegrass music's own
gnarled history or the red state/blue state divide that the album's
title indirectly references, but one gets the feeling that Lawler's
not too big on words. Just colors."  Lawler has not performed in North
Carolina since the heralded Transmissions festivals of experimental
and improvisational music organized in Chapel Hill in the late 1990s.
To hear his music and see him creating the sounds live in an
acoustical setting like Gerrard Hall will be an extraordinary
experience.
http://www.myspace.com/keenanlawler

MIKE TAMBURO: Pennsylvania's Mike Tamburo works to bridge
compositional ideas for acoustic instruments and electronic
techniques. Routing layers of six-string guitar, hammered dulcimer,
percussion and voice through effects and looping systems, Tamburo
builds folk melodies before bending them into challenging new forms.
Of Tamburo's latest album, Ghosts of Marumbey, Pitchfork Media wrote:
"Marumbey...feels cosmic, infinite even. This is a record of extreme
empirical and emotional breadth, its beautiful highs...and its savage
lows...offering enough space for dozens of interlaced travails."
http://www.myspace.com/tamburo

THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT: North Carolina's The Hem of His Garment is a
large collective with a revolving membership comprised of musicians
across the Triangle. With as many as 16 (and counting) musicians, the
band builds dense, textural drones that provide a synesthetic sound
experience for listeners. The band has played with downtown New York
composer Rhys Chatham, noise acts Yellow Swans and Mouthus and
acoustic guitarist Jack Rose.
http://www.myspace.com/thehemofhisgarment

HORSE OPERAS: The Midwest's Horse Operas play craggy rock-folk with
elliptical and sometimes humorous lyrics spat out over wayward guitar
solos and straight-ahead rhythms. The band is currently preparing its
debut album for Southern Love Records.
http://www.myspace.com/horseoperas