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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Marc Ribot.
Tickets: $20
Doors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm
Rolling Stone points out that “guitarist Marc Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case, Diana Krall, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union, Solomon Burke, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, Marianne Faithful, Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Medeski Martin & Wood, Caetono Veloso, Susana Baca, Allen Ginsburg, Madeleine Peyroux, Nora Jones, Jolie Holland, Akiko Yano, The Black Keys, and many others.
Marc works regularly with Grammy® Award-winning producer T Bone Burnett and New York composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as “Walk The Line” (James Mangold), “The Kids Are All Right,” and “The Departed” (Martin Scorcese).
Marc Ribot, who The New York Times describes as “a deceptively articulate artist who uses inarticulateness as an expressive device,” has released 25 albums under his own name over a 40-year career, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez. The enigmatic guitarist has released six very diverse solo guitar albums: (including John Zorn’s Book of Heads, Plays the Works of Frantz Casseus, Saints, Don’t Blame Me, Exercises in Futility), and 2010’s Silent Movies has been described as a “down-in-mouth-near masterpiece” by the Village Voice and earned critical praise across the board. His live solo performances are unpredictable events which may draw on all of these or none, creating a sonic matrix of memory, free improvisation, zeitgeist, extra-terrestrial radio signals, and much more … always leaving the listener on the edge of their seats.
“Dazzling and unique … The music isn’t pretty in the usual sense of the word, but it grows with intense feeling, and the effect is breathtaking, even emotionally compelling. You wish you’d been there to hear it, to hold your breath for long stretches of daring, only to suck the air back in in gulps when it was possible… ” — Will Layman, Pop Matters
“Guitarist Marc Ribot returns to the original scene in spirit and in songbook, playing feverishly and paying homage … Ribot is absolutely concentrated and sounds brilliant … building fruitfully on a venerable New York legacy, adding another chapter.” — John Corbett, DownBeat
“..he can sit down with just his guitar and simultaneously confound you with technique, beauty, and surprise…The result is solo guitar at its finest.” — John Garratt, PopMatters
“A one-of-a-kind guitarist equally adept providing an atmospheric backdrop for Tom Waits as he is calling down the heavens with skronky free jazz, Ribot’s lush collection of soundtrack work for films both real and imagined only gets richer with each listen. Solo guitar albums can sometimes sound spare or monochromatic, yet Ribot never operates in less than living color.” — Chris Barton, LA Times
“Ribot is one of the great guitarists of today, having worked for decades as a versatile sideman and an avant-garde-leaning leader, but he sort of blindsided me here, an introspective solo guitar gem that is utterly beguiling.” — Tad Hendrickson, AOL Spinner
