$15 admission / 10pm doors / 10:30 start / seated & standing
An evening of intimate acoustic guitar. Conor Moore is a Miami-based fingerpicking guitarist with a debut album out on UK label Hollow Gesture Records, featured on BBC 6 Music and WFMU. Joined by Boston locals Grace Liu and Luke Curran.
Conor Moore is a 21-year-old Miami-based instrumental guitarist working within and around the tradition of American Primitivism. After years of playing guitar, studying jazz and drifting between bands and styles, Moore found solo acoustic guitar to be the first format that felt open-ended enough to work in. “I always felt like there was something missing,” he says of earlier projects, “but this was the first kind of music that made me want to create something of my own.”
Rather than treating American Primitivism as a fixed sound, Moore sees it as a starting point. “It’s more a way of thinking about composing music for solo acoustic guitar,” he says, “and drawing inspiration from an eclectic collection of influences.”
www.hollowgesturerecords.com/conor-moore
Luke Curran is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist carving out a distinct space in the Boston roots scene. Blending his upbringing singing campfire harmonies in Northern Michigan and picking on back porches along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Curran crafts songs that feel like old memories.
Grace Liu is a musician and artist based in Boston, MA -- her personal statement:
”art is water, and we are vessels. may my life force be the tension and release of heaven meeting earth - an unfolding of the miraculous mundane.
This is the art of being human”