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| GARY LUCAS NEWS AND UPCOMING APPEARANCES GARY LUCAS has accompanied films both silent and sound with his live solo guitar scores in over 20 countries to date, most recently in March at la Cinematheque francaise in Paris where he premiered his new score for Von Stroheim's "The Wedding March". https://bit.ly/2PJTIEp Next up, on June 5th, Gary performs his acclaimed live score accompanying Wu Yonggang's 1934 masterpiece of Chinese silent cinema "The Goddess" at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Cluj Romania—his second time performing there. https://bit.ly/2IR5xrp Gary is currently in the midst of an ongoing retrospective of his live solo scores at the Metrograph, NYC's premier arthouse cinema, and will perform there next on Sat. June 15th accompanying a newly-restored 35mm print of "The Golem" (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) courtesy of Kino-Lorber. This is the thirtieth anniversary of Gary's score for "The Golem", co-written with Walter Horn, which premiered at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria in 1989. https://bit.ly/2m6XEQT Gary Lucas Live Music and Film Page: https://bit.ly/2ayknkK UPCOMING APPEARANCES Sun. May 19th 7pm Quinn's, Beacon NY Gary Lucas performs a solo acoustic concert with his special guest Mimi Sun Longo Interview in the Van Wyck Gazette: https://bit.ly/2HQ1nPr Solo acoustic page: https://bit.ly/1PiLf1T Tues. May 28th 7:30pm The Cutting Room NYC Gary Lucas, Feifei Yang and Jason Candler perform their Chinese pop-jazz project "The Edge of Heaven" https://bit.ly/2Aljarz Fri. May 31st time tbd Yale University, New Haven Gary Lucas plays with Geoffrey Menin keyboards, Jonathan Rose bass, and other friends as part of his Yale Class Reunion— a private event Wed. June 5th time and venue tba Cluj, Romania Gary Lucas plays his live solo film score accompanying Wu Yonggang's 1934 masterpiece of Chinese silent cinema "The Goddess" at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) https://bit.ly/2IR5xrp https://bit.ly/2iMnLNU Sat. June 15th 8pm The Metrograph, NYC Gary Lucas accompanies a newly-restored print of "The Golem" (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) with his live solo score as part of Lucas' ongoing retrospective at the Metrograph, curated by Jacob Perlin and Robert Melvin Rubin https://bit.ly/2m6XEQT Fri. June 21st 5pm Joe's Pub Outdoors Stage, NYC Gary Lucas performs his Chinese jazz-pop project The Edge of Heaven featuring vocalist and erhu virtuoso Feifei Yang and saxophonist Jason Candler as part of the Make Music New York Festival, a global music event linking 85 cities around the world https://bit.ly/2Aljarz Fri. Sept. 20th 7:30pm The Cutting Room NYC "Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas—The Lost Songs" celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of Jeff Buckley's "Grace" album featuring Gary's special guests from Italy, Davide Combusti (The Niro) vocals and Francesco Arpino keyboards and guitar performing selections from their forthcoming album "The Complete Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas Songbook" Sun. Oct. 27th and Mon. Oct. 28th times tba Chutzpah! Festival, Vancouver Gary will perform several live solo film scores tba https://bit.ly/2ayknkK MORE DATES TBA Read a rave review for Gary's recent show in Paris in French magazine Rock & Folk: https://bit.ly/2GItZYH News item from Italian music magazine Buscadero announcing new album "The Complete Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas Songbook" coming this fall from Esordisco featuring Davide Combusti (The Niro) vocals and produced by Francesco Arpino https://bit.ly/2J5C5gP write your comments about the article :: © 2019 Jazz News :: home page |