Hi,
On Saturday November 8th, Mechanic Street House Concerts in Cleveland, Ohio will be hosting a concert with The Matt Flinner Trio (chamber grass/new acoustic) and Harmonious Wail (gypsy swing). Earlier that afternoon, Matt Flinner & Sims Delaney-Potthoff (from Harmonious Wail) will be doing 4 hours of workshops.
See mechanicstreetmusic.com for more concert info or click here for workshop info.
About the performers & instructors:
“Flinner continues his reign as perhaps the most exciting and creative mandolin player on the scene today.”—Jazz Times
Matt Flinner is a Winfield Mandolin Championship winner and member of Modern Mandolin Quartet, as well as a great composer and instructor. Since its inception in 2006, the Matt Flinner Trio has been forging new pathways for the standard bluegrass trio. Flinner, guitarist Ross Martin and bassist Eric Thorin cover a wide variety of musical styles—all with the common ground of American roots. Bluegrass, jazz and Celtic music are all present here, but not necessarily overtly or in a contrived sense. Call it Americana Music, or New Acoustic, or Chamber Grass, or just call it Great Music; whatever label you put on it, it is guaranteed to be fresh and original, and definitely something you’ve never quite heard before.
"You’ll be smiling from the moment [Harmonious Wail] starts to play…[their music] is strangely reminiscent of Frank Zappa’s celebrated and just-as-jazzy Mothers of Invention … As a matter of fact, if this CD doesn’t set your toe to tapping and a smile on your face, you should probably get medication." - Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
Smoldering vocals laced among the jazzy mandolin and guitar; an infectious blend of continental jazz, swing, gypsy music and melodic vocals …how DOES one describe the sound of Harmonious Wail? The Wail has caught numerous listeners by total surprise during its more than 20-year history. Sims Delaney-Potthoff, Harmonious Wail’s founder, leader and mandolinist , credits Jethro Burns with the band’s unique, enticing style of mandolin-driven gypsy-jazz. Sims studied for seven years with Burns, the legendary jazz mandolinist, laying the foundation for Harmonious Wail’s acoustic string sound. He furthered his studies with Matt Glaser at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, honing his skills while immersing himself in the “gypsy” music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
I hope you can join us!
Joel
Mechanic Street House Concerts
Cleveland, Ohio
Bookmarks