CONCERT SERIES
Glenn Jones:
“Though he'd never admit it himself, Glenn Jones might singlehandedly be the most important guitarist of the last several decades. His life long tenure to the underground has gifted us, dear reader, with 10 widely acclaimed solo LPs on top of an already emphatic career alongside the genre defying Cul De Sac - a band that you forgot played more times with Damo Suzuki than Can did.
Jones’ subtle approach to fingerstyle remains uniquely idiosyncratic, having established and continued to innovate a deeply personal melodic grammar for the acoustic guitar and banjo that is witty, cleverly self-referential and tethered to the weight of reflection and memory.
Sketches of Fahey, a close friendship with the late John Jackson of Fairfax Virginia, long conversations in the driveway with one Jack Rose; devotion to his mother, the ever lovely Nora Smith with her leather jacket, and his cats. The portraiture of days gone by, sentiment for those close and fondly remembered. Ever fleeting. Ever sublime.
Here is a vital messenger of the steel string guitar who we can celebrate in his time - here and now.”
— Man Tragil, 2025.
https://glennjones.bandcamp.com/album/vade-mecum
https://thrilljockey.com/artists/glenn-jones
Lisa / Liza:
Lisa/Liza is the songwriting project of Portland singer and guitarist Liza Victoria. Throughout her catalogue of songs, she affirms the value of music and songwriting in her life, providing comfort through illness and isolation and helping to hold onto cherished memories through the poetry she sings. Meditations on joy, pain, human relationships and the natural world that stretch out slowly like long shadows.
"Over about a decade of work Lisa / Liza has carved out a genre defining soundscape and as a project has taken on a transmutative personality shifting between a purely solo endeavor and a full fledged band. She embraces sparse melody, introspective lyricism, at times almost entire feedback fed instrumentals, and in fashion to her self reliant state she represents a serious dedication to DIY."
https://lisalizas.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-and-mending
https://orindal.limitedrun.com/artists/lisaliza
Liam Grant:
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape where he was raised. Instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the falls and black pearls from the river. The exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the last night on Dead River before the great flood.
https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/amoskeag
https://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/liam-grant-vhf166-lp
on select sundays throughout the summer
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music starts at 5:30
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