New York Guitar Festival @ The Greene Space
The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space
44 Charlton Street New York, NY 10014
(646) 829-4000
Tickets:
$20
This third night features Brazilian polymath Badi Assad, who is a guitarist, yes, and…a singer, percussionist, keyboardist, and dancer. Also, on the third night, the possibly cosmic and definitely virtuosic shimmering fire of guitarist and composer Vernon Reid together with multi-instrumentalist Laraaji, perhaps on zither. WNYC's John Schaefer hosts.
ABOUT BADI ASSAD:
Younger sister of the great Brazilian guitar duo of Sergio & Odair Assad, Badi is not only a guitarist but also a singer and percussionist (sometimes using the guitar as a percussion instrument). She draws on elements of jazz, world music, and pop, and was co-curator of the 2014 edition of the New York Guitar Festival.
ABOUT VERNON REID:
One of Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Vernon Reid gained fame as the main songwriter for the rock band Living Colour, and as a founder of the Black Rock Coalition. Adept at metal, funk and jazz, Reid has also composed an ambitious multimedia piece called Artificial Afrika, and after collaborations with Bill Frisell, Jack Bruce, and Public Enemy (among others), began performing duos with zither player Laraaji.
ABOUT LARAAJI:
Crashing this year’s guitar festival is the ambient zither player and electronic musician Laraaji. Famously part of Brian Eno’s groundbreaking Ambient Music series back in 1981, Laraaji has created a large body of atmospheric, often cosmic sounding music for zither, voice, processing, and occasionally piano. And in recent years, he’s performed as a duo with the guitarist Vernon Reid.