Submitted by event organizers.
Folks are visiting from all over the world to catch a glimpse of the beauty that these islands behold. But for a moment of quiet contemplation and a breath of fresh air, we recommend you make some time to visit this Sunday, June 11, The San Juan Island Grange at 152 First Ave N, for a gorgeously original evening of music from Lori Goldston and Josephine Foster, currently on tour throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improviser, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.
Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.
Josephine Foster is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space”, says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work as a ”fusion of art song and American folk music” and there she walks a musical high wire. Byron Coley calls her “one of this generation’s great original voices”, and she is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings.” Blank Forms
Since abandoning the operatic studies of her youth Josephine has released some twenty albums, song cycles drawn from her own singular songbook, performed solo or leading various ensembles, occasionally under band guises: Mendrugo, the Supposed, Born Heller. Peripheral but not insignificant are her unorthodox arrangements of 19th-century German Lieder, the folkloric collection of Lorca, or her musical settings of Dickinson and other poets. Foster is a poet herself, as well as a visual artist.
Locals Molly McDermott and John Bellows will fill out the bill.
The show begins at 6:30 p.m., and costs $15 at the door.
