Will Taylor and Strings Attached Present the Songs of Paul Simon
with Guests Marc Utter and Karen Mal
When: March 27th, 20010 8pm
Where: Central Presbytarian Church
200 East 8th Street
Austin, TX 78701-3210
(512) 472-2445
Who: Strings Attached with Karen Mal and Marc Utter.
Tickets and videos: @ http://www.stringsattached.org/shows.php
Poster
Sponsored by KLGO- The WORD 99.3 and 98.5, Good Company Associates, Hideout Studios and Intellibed of Austin
Kicking off their ninth season of shows, Will Taylor and Strings attached continue their genre-bending explorations with the Song of Paul Simon recreated with new arrangements by Will Taylor in the intimate and acoustically gorgeous Central Presbytarian Church in downtown Austin on December 19, 2009.
The set list will include a broad range of tunes:
Slip Slidin Away
Bridge Over Troubled Water
America
The Dangling Conversation
April
Homeward Bound
Kathy's Song
American tune
Graceland
Flowers never bend with the rainfall
St Judy's Comet
Father and Daughter
The Boxer
Duncan
Under african skies
Richard Cory
Still Crazy after all these years
Cecilia
Late in the Evening
Paul Simon Biography:
After the 1970 breakup of Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon went on confirm his stature as a first-rate songwriter and performer. His terse, exquisitely crafted songs have drawn on early rock & roll (particularly doo-wop), reggae, salsa, jazz, gospel, blues, New Orleans, and African and South American music, in some cases presaging the conscious blending of world music into mainstream pop by over a decade. He stands apart from most folk-based singer/songwriters of his generation in that he has created a wide-ranging body of work in which the purely musical vocabulary — of style, instrumentation, and sounds — is as evocative and as expressive as his lyrics and voice.
Info about Strings Attached:
"Will Taylor has a musical proposition for you -- a playful, dignified, off-kilter idea that brings honor to Austin's identity as 'The Live Music Capital of the World.' It's a cool concept. But it's just a bit . . . different.
Imagine what might happen, suggests Taylor, if we took Austin's most popular singer-songwriters -- Abra Moore, or Jimmy LaFave, or Patrice Pike, or Ray Wylie Hubbard -- and let them perform, live, in a church? Then imagine if you paired those artists with acoustic "chamber" instruments -- cello, violin, viola, trumpet and hand drums -- and wrote new arrangements, adding dashes of jazz and classical music, that revealed new facets of their most beautiful or familiar songs?
Imagine what might happen if you dared to blur all these boundaries between pop music and jazz, between rock music and classical music, between the musical realm and the lyrical realm, between the honky-tonk and the church, and in the spirit of art and fun and experimentation, you reached out for something . . . transcendent"-- article from Austin American-Statesman
"Wow, we are so grateful to you for such an incredible evening. George and I were so high from the creative energy and the almost other-worldly sense of collaboration. What a divine life you have to be able to participate in such moments of group creativity. It made me jealous that my work world is so isolated. Ah well, it was just heavenly to be part of the experience. We can't wait for the next Strings Attached concert." Sarah Bird, award winning author
"Once again, very magical and heart felt music, we can feel it when it comes from your hearts, because like tuning, it strikes our chords as well and moves us." - Dan
"The ensemble is fantastic. Each player is very gifted and adds to the whole. No one dominates or over plays. You are the best group I've heard in Austin in a long while." - Becky M.
For Press Pictures: http://stringsattachedphotos.blogspot.com/
For more information on the concert and tickets, please visit this Web site: http://www.stringsattached.org/shows.php If you have any additional questions, e-mail Will Taylor at Jazzviolawill@yahoo.com
