The Center for the Arts and (((folkYEAH))) presents
Saturday, March 3, 8:00PM
Doors open at 7:00PM
$20 General Admission
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”…a lone wanderer battling solitude with sound.” – Spin
”…a compelling whirl of Laurel Canyon-echo balladry and desolate-psychedelia stomp.” – Rolling Stone
Joshua Tillman, AKA Father John Misty, is a folk singer, guitarist, songwriter and former drummer for the Seattle-based band Fleet Foxes. Tillman recently departed the Fleet Foxes to focus on his new solo album “Fear Fun”.
Musically, “Fear Fun” consists of such disparate elements as Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Arthur Russell, “All Things Must Pass,” and “Physical Graffiti,” often within the same song. Tillman’s voice has never been better and often sounds like Roy Orbison, “The Caruso of Rock”, at his most joyous, while the music maintains a dark, mysterious and yet conversely playful, almost Dionysian quality. Lyrically, his absurdist fever dreams of pain and pleasure elicit, in equal measures, the blunt descriptive power of Bukowski or Braughtigan, the hedonist-philosophy of Oscar Wilde and the dried-out wit of Loudon Wainwright III.
Tillman has maintained a steady output of solo recordings since 2004 and has toured the US and Europe extensively with Pacific Northwest artists such as Damien Jurado, Jesse Sykes, and David Bazan. He moved to Seattle in 2004 where, between day jobs, he recorded a cassette that was picked up by Seattle legend Damien Jurado. The connection lead to a tour of Europe supporting Jurado.
About songwriting on the new recording Tillman says, “I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn’t want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humor and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it’s kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like ‘Misty’.”
Opening the show will be singer/songwriter Jenny O. Born in Long Island, New York to a scientist/wedding singer father whom introduced young Jenny to a wide a vintage record collection that consisted primarily of Beach Boys and Harry Nilsson. The influence went deep into Jenny’s musical upbringing where she picked up the piano and cello by age 9. After playing in several bands around New York City and doing some time with the NY All-State Orchestra, Jenny settled in Los Angeles by the late 2000’s where she recorded a yet-to-be released LP with Jason Lader (Elvis Costello, Coldplay). After experiencing an artistic flurry of growing pains, she gathered herself and a special group of local musicians to make a stripped down recording of her newest material in late 2010. The fruits of these labors consist of what is being presented to the audience as Home.
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Jenny O
“Jenny O’s new EP comes an unhurried, mid-tempo rhythm that provokes thoughts of afternoon drives and warm sunshine” – American Songwriter
“Jenny O.’s flair for dreamy folk, jazz-fueled hip-hop, ’60s- and ’70s-style pop arrangements; the lyrics are conversational and down-to-earth, and everything seems appropriately drenched in LA sunshine” – Shockhound
Born in Long Island, New York to a scientist/wedding singer father whom introduced young Jenny to a wide a vintage record collection that consisted primarily of Beach Boys and Harry Nilsson. The influence went deep into Jenny’s musical upbringing where she picked up the piano and cello by age 9.
After playing in several bands around New York City and doing some time with the NY All-State Orchestra, Jenny settled in Los Angeles by the late 2000’s where she recorded a yet-to-be released LP with Jason Lader (Elvis Costello, Coldplay). After experiencing an artistic flurry of growing pains, she gathered herself and a special group of local musicians to make a stripped down recording of her newest material in late 2010. The fruits of these labors consist of what is being presented to the audience as Home.
