Auction Project Featuring Arturo O'Farrill at ShapeShifter Lab

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Fusing Celtic, jazz and Afro-Latin influences, super group The Auction Project—led by saxophonist, flutist, and composer David Bixler, and featuring Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill—create a surprising, richly textured and thoroughly enjoyable sound. The Auction Project explores how a traditional fiddle phrase fits atop a breezy, post-bop groove as this quintet makes history and stakes out uncommon musical territory. Down Beat magazine writes “The winning grace of Auction Project’s jazz-meets-Celtic (and sometimes Afro-Cuban) sound is its naturalness and intimacy.” After putting the band on pause for several years, Bixler has reinvented the band, inspired after spending the fall of 2023 in County Clare, Ireland studying the flute.