JULY 10
PINE
Pine combines the classic New Zealand formula of bedrooms and four track recorders mixed with a dash of great Kiwi traditions like The Clean, The Bats and the Straightjacket Fits. With their minimalistic line-up of snare, organ and electric guitar they mix a smidgen of punk, folk and 60s melodies to create something refreshingly unusual, spikey and polite.
JULY 9
ALAN LICHT’S DIGGER CHOIR
Composer/guitarist/curator/writer Alan Licht conducts the Digger Choir, a site-specific performance, augmented by invited guest artists, to perform the vocal arrangements of John Stevens’ Sustained Piece (1968), Alan Licht’s Subway Piece (2003) and Yoko Ono’s John Let’s Hope For Peace (1969).
The concert featured untrained vocalists as well professional singers like Shelley Hirsch and Rebecca Moore, performing in various stations in the space, not on a stage. The pieces perform emphasize the equanimity between the performers (and the audience) as well as each performer’s individuality. The Stevens and Ono pieces are rarely, if ever, performed, and the Ono piece will be performed in Licht’s new arrangement for multiple voices and pre-recorded guitar feedback.
The evening’s title is in homage to the English Civil War-era agrarian movement and the late 60s San Francisco street theatre “life actors” – social activists (which included actor Peter Coyote and the late Emmett Grogan).