UPCOMING SHOWS

Robin Holcomb performing at the Calgary Folk Festival

The 31st annual Calgary Folk Music Festival brings 68 artists from all corners of our globe to perform on 7 stages at Princes Island Park. Artists each do a concert, but what makes this festival stand out is its sessions: what could be dubbed arranged marriages wonderful mash ups that celebrate six degrees of separation and find common threads between sometimes seemingly disparate artists, genres and approaches to music. Its where the oud, hurdy-gurdy, acoustic guitar and the turntable meet and make beautiful music together.

Friday, July 23, 4:30 - 5:45 PM, Stage 3
Some Fine Lines: Session with Joe Henry, Robin Holcomb, The Swell Season

Saturday, July 24 11:45 AM - 12:55 PM, Stage 2
Abstract Expressionists Session with The Burning Hell, e.s.l., Thea Gilmore, Robin Holcomb

Saturday, July 24, 4:40 - 5:30 PM, Stage 3
Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Project concert, with Steve Dawson, Robin Holcomb, Del Ray, Geoff Muldaur

Sunday, July 25 3:15 - 4:05 PM, Stage 2
Robin Holcomb with Daniel Lapp, Steve Dawson, Keith Lowe, Geoff Hicks

More information at the Calgary Folk Festival website.

Robin Holcomb and others performing the music of Christian Marclay
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography, and video. This groundbreaking Whitney exhibition, activated by daily concerts and continually evolving, explores Marclays approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his graphic scores for performance by musicians and vocalists. Visitors to the Whitney will be encouraged to mark up a wall-sized chalkboard, with musical staff lines, thereby creating a collective musical score which will be performed throughout the run of the show. Other Marclay scores, including the premiere of a new scrolled vocal work forty feet in length and three scores conceived as projections, will be continually on view and performed on a regular basis. World renowned musicians and vocalists, some of whom have been regular collaborators with the artist for three decades, will interpret a dozen scores, enabling museum audiences to experience a less well known aspect of Marclays varied art practice.

Wednesday, August 25, 4 PM Graffiti Comp

Thursday, August 26, 4 PM Shuffle

Saturday, August 27, 4 PM Screen Play with Kato Hideki

Sunday, August 28, 12:30 PM Ephemera

More information at the Christian Marclay Festival website.