The East Village Guitar Festival kicks off this weekend. The event will feature over 20 local and regional guitarists. On Friday I’ll be bringing my banjo/electric guitar hybrid to perform a set of improvisations similar to the pieces on my 2021 Tell A Gossip recording from Tape Drift Records. Also playing Friday will be Killick & Klimchak. Saturday’s event will feature Taylor Hollingsworth and Jupiter.
Friday and Saturday April 4-5 2025 East Village Guitar Festival East Village Arts 7611 1st Ave N Birmingham AL 35206
This event was originally scheduled for mid-March but had to be postponed due to weather. Read more at Bham Now and Birmingham365.
I’m looking forward to performing tomorrow on a concert highlighting free improvisation and electronic music. The show will include Sam Herman, Aaron Johnson, and LaDonna Smith.
The next concert in my Birmingham New MusicFestival schedule is The Next Moment, tonight at East Village Arts in Birmingham, Alabama. I’m playing a new piece for extended banjo and live electronics that uses automated phone system samples (“To speak with a customer representative…press 9…”). Craig Hultgren will premiere As Safe As If It Were In The Fire for ecello and live electronics.
Other composers and improvisers on the program include Rob Voisey, the festival’s guest composer visiting from NYC, LaDonna Smith, Michael Coleman, and Joshua David Davis.
We honor and remember the incomparable guitarist and improviser Davey Williams this weekend at East Village Arts in Birmingham. The Davey Williams Memorial Guitar Festival runs Friday through Sunday March 3-5 and will feature guitar solos by local and guest performers, a guitar parade, performances on cast iron guitars and Jean-Jacque Gaudel’s invented instruments, and more. There will also be a screening of Lee Shook’s documentary about Davey, Convulsive Blues. I’ll be performing on Sunday as part of the Antennae Road Orchestra, reinterpreting selected improvisations from Williams’ Antenna Road album. See below for the address, full schedule and festival pass info.
Davey Williams’ books, CDs, t-shirts (and these sweet bumper stickers) will also be available.
Bumper Sticker: SKRONK! if you heart Davey Williams
The DAVEY WILLIAMS GUITAR FESTIVAL MARCH 3-5, 2023 EAST VILLAGE ARTS 7611 1st Ave. N.
FRIDAY 5:00 “Rush Hour” ELECTRIC GUITAR PARADE ON THE STREET 6:00 POTLUCK/ Hospitality/EXHIBITION/byob 7:00 – !0:00 featuring: Cast Iron Guitars Guitar Solos/”Round Robins” Killick Hinds: h’arpeggione, Big red harp guitar
SATURDAY 6:00 POTLUCK/ Hospitality/EXHIBITION/byob 7:00 – !0:00 featuring: Cast Iron Guitars Guitar Solos/ ”Round Robins” Musical Inventions of Jean-Jacque Gaudel Brady Sharp: solo electric guitar
SUNDAY 6:00 POTLUCK/ Hospitality/EXHIBITION/byob 7:00 – 9:00 CONCERT and “TALL TALES” & Cast Iron Guitars Documentary Film: “CONVULSIVE BLUES” by Lee Shook The “ANTENNAE ROAD” ORCHESTRA performed by UAB Jazz Ensemble & Community Musicians
Pleased to have Adam Goodwin and Thomas Helton, two improvising bassists, at East Village Arts in Birmingham. I’ll perform a short improvised electronics set on the concert.
Wednesday June 22 7:30pm Solid Air East Village Arts 7611 1st Ave N Birmingham AL 35206
