An Evening of Adventurous Songs

Friday 16 December 2022
Zaal 100, De Wittenstraat 100, 1052 BA Amsterdam
€8, doors open 20:00, first set 20:30

Lily Kiara, guitar and voice, with Paul Pallesen on electric guitar and James McClure on trumpet.
https://lilykiara.nl/

“Her musical vision explodes with a vitamin to the heart…“ – Sabrina Tinsay on the album On This Ground

Lily Kiara is a folk singer-songwriter, based in Amsterdam. She plays poetic songs that sometimes become stories, sometimes are closer to a poem, concerning human rights and personal wonderings. Occasionally there’s a love song in the traditional sense. But she sees them all as love songs really, wondering about how we live together in this world. She plays solo as well as with her bands The Tall Tales and The RIVER. The musicians in her bands are active in the improvised music and jazz worlds and bring a rich melodic vocabulary to the folk songs and poetry. In both bands poetry is part of the repertoire.

Lily Kiara plays mostly fingerpicking acoustic guitar, under the musical influence of mainly North American and British traditional and contemporary folk songwriters such as Ani DiFranco, Laura Marling, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Anais Mitchell. She's also inspired by twentieth century jazz singers, Malinese female artists, poets, writers and spoken word artists.
She opened for Duke Garwood (Mark Lanegan) and Eric Anderson (Bob Dylan) and is a frequent guest at the storytelling venue Mezrab in Amsterdam. She toured throughout the USA several times with guitarist Jimmy Robinson from New Orleans and JR Rhodes from Seattle.
Her latest album (Fishing in the Field) and EP (Roses, The New Orleans Sessions) released on Zip Records. Earlier albums came out on her own label for music and poetry Sibyl Sings.

Seamus Cater - folk songs, concertina and voice.
http://www.seacater.com/

Seamus Cater is a musician, writer, performer and organizer of the concert series DNK Amsterdam. Tonight is a premiere of sorts as Seamus will perform a set entirely of traditional folk songs. Reviews of previous work include:

"Every in and out breath and every suggestion of a note here is a point of interest, surrounded by lots and lots of silence. Cater's approach to these impressionistic-narrative folk songs is similar to artists of the ECM label: with almost religiously devoted, sensitive explorations and improvisations. His influences appear to be drawn from jazz and contemporary classical circles. This album emphasises Cater's solo work, carefully complemented with guest contributions from various Berlin musicians. The sacred, highly minimalist atmosphere of the music and the unusual sound of the concertina immerse the listener in a timeless, almost unreal atmosphere. Cater uses his voice more in a storytelling mode than as an all out singer, and a bit more freedom for the guest musicians could add a dash of light here and there. But the listener who surrenders and allows every note to be heard will be ultimately breathless and deeply touched." Benjamin van Vliet - Gonzo (circus), regarding The Three Things You Can Hear.

“It is an almost unreal world both rooted and uprooted from the folk-inherited blood of Seamus and reinterpreted in between Robert Wyatt and his own most personal life; the circles of avant-garde which make up his background. I once would have said “destined to become a small cult” but I am increasingly aware that it’s a sentence without the slightest meaning.” Blow Up (Italy), regarding The Anecdotes.

Parkland Music Project is Rob Malowany, guitar and voice, on tour from Vancouver, Canada. With Marielle Groven on violin and Aaron Lumley on double bass.
http://www.parklandmusicproject.com/

"Vancouver’s Parkland Music Project views alt-country roots through a kaleidoscope of textural improvisation, psych-rock energy, and thrillingly open-ended, uncommonly dynamic song structures. Led by singer-songwriter Rob Malowany, the shifting cast of players is given complete freedom to continually reimagine songs; tempo, tone, intensity: everything is up for on-the-fly interpretation by the ensemble. In response, Malowany morphs and bends his stripped-bare lyrics and emotive guitar work to make each performance a unique, unrepeatable experience. From wildly bombastic to pin-drop intimate, Parkland Music Project’s far-ranging sound “lends itself to both the breaking dawn or the darkening night” (The Vancouver Sun).

Bring cash because Zaal 100 has NO PIN