Efw Presents: Joe Mcphee With Strings at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center

“McPhee is highly fluent on all his instruments...and critics just as often have lauded McPhee for his gorgeous touch and tone. McPhee never gives less than his best...With McPhee, it's the heady mixture of outside and inside, of experimentation and tradition, and of technique and imagination, which gives his music its character. Clearly, McPhee can do it all—and with style, wit, passion and grace."
— Bill Tilland, BBC

Elysium Furnace Works is thrilled and honored to be able to present a legendary multi-instrumentalist in his hometown, leading a truly historic ensemble in performance: Joe McPhee with Strings. For this momentous event, the lineup will include:...

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“McPhee is highly fluent on all his instruments...and critics just as often have lauded McPhee for his gorgeous touch and tone. McPhee never gives less than his best...With McPhee, it's the heady mixture of outside and inside, of experimentation and tradition, and of technique and imagination, which gives his music its character. Clearly, McPhee can do it all—and with style, wit, passion and grace."
— Bill Tilland, BBC

Elysium Furnace Works is thrilled and honored to be able to present a legendary multi-instrumentalist in his hometown, leading a truly historic ensemble in performance: Joe McPhee with Strings. For this momentous event, the lineup will include:

Joe McPhee: saxophones, spoken word
Michael Bisio and Hillard Greene: basses
Fred Lonberg-Holm and Lester St. Louis: cellos
James Keepnews and Billy Stein: guitars
Melanie Dyer and Mat Maneri: violas
Rosi Hertlein and Gwen Laster: violins

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