2/13: ACME, Craig Wedren, yesaroun’ duo, and Shudder to Think do a Wordless Music Show at (le) Poisson Rouge.
The combination of a venue like (le) Poisson Rouge, a concert series like Wordless Music, and an advocate (not only for good contemporary music but for all good music) like Ronen Givoney, is awakening an awesome concept for how new music might happen in this city. We are used to giving concerts for a few die-hard new music types at galleries. There was rarely beer, and there were certainly never rock stars. Why not? I don’t know either.
This is the second performance of Jefferson Friedman’s Love Songs, composed for ACME and Craig, and also features Louis Andriessen’s Worker’s Union, and a full set by the band Shudder To Think. Jeff and Craig did this interview for New York Magazine. Be forewarned though, it tries to delineate who is and who isn’t a rock star. Someday we will kill these distinctions. I may have to start wearing aqua-net pink.