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| GARY LUCAS PLAYS "THE GODDESS" @ TRANSILVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / UPCOMING APPEARANCES On Wed. June 5th at 9:30pm, GARY LUCAS will perform his celebrated live solo guitar score for Wu Yonggang's 1934 Chinese silent classic film "The Goddess" starring incandescent Chinese film actress Ruan Lingyu, in the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Cluj Romania-a special event of the 18th Transylvania International Film Festival. https://bit.ly/2IR5xrp https://bit.ly/2iMnLNU The cine-concert is part of the TIFF 2019 FOCUS CHINA, a special section developed in collaboration with the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Belt and Road Film Festival Alliance, and the Embassy of the Republic of China in Romania, This is Gary's second time performing at TIFF, where he previously played his live score for the legendary Spanish "Dracula" outside Banffy Castle in Bontida Romania in 2010. Lucas has been quite active performing his live film scores all over the globe, this year accompanying Luis Bunuel's "El Angel Exterminador" in Bilbao Spain, premiering his live score for Erich Von Stroheim's "The Wedding March" at la Cinematheque Francaise, and performing an ongoing retrospective of his live solo film scores at The Metrograph, NYC's premier art-house cinema. Next up at the Metrograph, on Sat. June 15th Gary plays his original live solo score for Paul Wegener and Carl Boese's "The Golem" (1920) at 8pm, as part of an ongoing retrospective of his film scores there curated by Jacob Perliin and Robert Melvin Rubin. Lucas will be playing to a newly restored print of the film courtesy of Kino-Lorber. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Gary's live score for "The Golem", which the guitarist has performed in over 20 countries worldwide since debuting the work at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria in 1989 with his co-composer keyboardist Walter Horn— including Brazil, Russia, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Israel, and all across the UK, Europe and the US. UPCOMING APPEARANCES Wed. June 5th 9:30pm 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 Sun. June 16th 3-5pm 55Bar, NYC Gary Lucas plays solo acoustic with his special guest vocalist Felice Rosser at the legendary blues and jazz watering hole the 55Bar in the West Village of Manhattan Sat. June 20th 5:30pm Russian Consulate, NYC Gary Lucas performs at a private event celebrating 20 years of Oleg Frisch's long-running program "Time Out Weekly", which celebrates American music and entertainment for Russian-speaking audiences 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 Sun. June 23rd time and venue tba Brooklyn, NY Gary Lucas, Ernie Brooks, and Jerry Harrison reunion Wed. July 3rd 7:30pm Caveat, NYC Gary Lucas participates in Stories from Storytown, an ongoing salon inviting folks from the entertainment word to share their experiences, with special guests including writer/journalist David Hajdu, and producer Wendy Magro Thurs. August 15th time tba MOCA, NYC Gary Lucas, Feifei Yang and Jason Candler play "The Edge of Heaven" at the Museum of Chinese in America as part of MOCA's ongoing exhibition "The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging" http://garylucas.com/www/edgelive/edgelive.shtml 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 Sun Nov. 3rd time tba Cuernavaca, Mexico Gary Lucas plays his live solo soundtrack accompanying George Melford's 1931 Spanish-language "Dracula" at the Teopanzolco Cultural Center 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 |