Event

Title:: Black Twig Pickers
When:: 27.09.2010 20.30
Where:: Vortex Jazz Club - London
Category:: Live Music (with DJs)

Description

Monday 27 | 8.30pm | £10 | Book online

Black Twig Pickers

Banjos and fiddles, boards and bones in hand, the Black Twig Pickers dived into a living tradition of old-time music that surrounds their homes in Southwest Virginia and never looked back.

Scholars of the regional sounds and advocates of an ecstatic and highly personal approach to the music, the Twigs hold down local dance and bar gigs, play all manner of celebrations and every so often, hit the road.

Along the way they have kept company with some of underground America's heavyweights, haunted the doorsteps of Appalachian fiddle and banjo masters and put out a string of acclaimed albums, including 'Hobo Handshake' and last year's J'ack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers'.

The latest, 'Ironto Special', is an album of traditional Appalachian old-time tunes (and two originals) that they've learned through study of both local old-time musicians and old-time records and field recordings.

Nathan Bowles (banjo, washboard, bones, fiddlesticks, snare drum, vocals),
Isak Howell (guitar, mouth harp, vocals), Mike Gangloff (fiddle, banjo, jaw harp, vocasl) and Charlie Parr (baritone resonator 12-string guitar).

Venue

Venue:: Vortex Jazz Club - Website
Street:: 11 Gillett Square
ZIP:: N16 8AZ
City:: London
State:: Dalston
Country:: UK

Description

The Vortex Jazz Club

The world-renowed jazz club in Dalston, North London

Established In North London for over 20 years, the club is a beacon for contemporary jazz in the capital.

With seven evening performances a week the Vortex programmes cutting-edge jazz alongside contemporary folk and world music.

While it places a strong emphasis on, and provides support for, young local talent, it also regularly features leading world-class artists, both from the UK and overseas – for example – from the UK, Stan Tracey, Tony Kofi, Evan Parker, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Mercury Music Prize Nominated Polar Bear and Zoe Rahmann, John Taylor and Gwilym Simcock and award-winning saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock.

From abroad, the club has connections with New York downtown scene musicians such as Tim Berne and Claudia Quintet, as well as European groups such as [em], radio.string.quartet, Lotte Anker and Wolfgang Muthspiel.

There is something to appeal to all musical tastes: straightahead, big-band, contemporary, piano trio, vocal, free-improv, world-music, Gypsy/East European and folk-orientated...

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The Vortex Jazz Club is housed in the Dalston Culture House, a striking new landmark building designed by Hackney architects Hawkins Brown. Full programme details can be found on our website - see below.

Private hire for 10 to 100 people is available for parties, corporate functions, meetings, rehearsals and concerts during the daytime, evening or both by arrangement. Hire includes use of the PA system and fully licensed bar.

For a quote please 020 7254 4097, or email the address below.
Unit B9 - Bradbury Street - N16 Tel: 020 7254 4097
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Web: www.vortexjazz.co.uk