Jul
14
2010
Runaway Circus
Author: adminMonday, July 19 at IronWood Studios – Runaway Circus Presents: DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN ~ FOR THE CRIMES OF ~ JUGGLING, ACROBATICS, TRAPEZE, MAGIC, DIABOLO, SLAPSTICK, AND MORE!
With opening band Sugarfoot Serenaders!!
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. show starts at 7 p.m.
Suggested Donations $5 – $10
info: Erik & Libby Johnson 983-5234
www.runawaycircus.com


1960s. Statman grew up in Queens. Influenced by the Greenwich Village folk revival, he picked up the mandolin and moved to Nashville in the mid-1960s, where he became part of that city’s nascent newgrass scene. His profound spiritual response to Coltrane about that time led him on two parallel but related musical journeys: first, back into the klezmer of his youth, and second, into a rigourous program of jazz improvisation. Statman picked up the clarinet and started playing an avant-garde, improvisational version of traditional Jewish folk music, a startling fusion of old and new that combines elegant formalism with adventurous musical freedom. (For you bluegrass fans put off by a fear of out-there jazz, he also still plays mandolin.) (Matthew Everett)