Friday October 30, 2009
8pm
$15
Hallow's Eve-Eve POE PARTY
with
Lisa Mezzacappa & Friends
San Francisco bassist, bandleader and curator
Lisa Mezzacappa ringleads an eclectic pre-Halloween evening of words, image and music in celebration of horror writer Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday. Mezzacappa is joined by her versatile ensemble of improvisers, Bait & Switch, along with special guest storytellers, songwriters, filmmakers, performers and musicians for a variety show of creepy improvised music, spooky stories, projections, and Poe-inspired films (by Fellini, Svankmajer and others) with live musical accompaniment.
Bait & Switch is:
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Vijay Anderson, drums
plus:
New Poe songs by Katy Stephan (voice, piano)
Live film score by Guts and Buttons Duo (Marié Abe, accordion + Dina
Maccabee, violin)
Video performance by James Bewley (formerly of Killing My Lobster, Theatre de la Jeune Lune)
Readings by Brent Cunningham with projections on the Shadow Machine by Konrad Steiner
More info:
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/poe
Cost: $15
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.