Six String Presents Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill Jr” featuring Free Planet Radio in Concert
Hello Live Music and Movie Fans:
This is our second show with The Cary Theater where we show a movie from the silent film era while a band performs their unique interpretation of the soundtrack LIVE during the movie. Following the movie the band, Free Planet Radio, will perform a concert. It all happens Friday, Nov 3, 2017 at 8pm.
Tickets are available online at www.SixStringPresents.com
“Steamboat Bill Jr”
is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton’s independent production team and set of gag writers.
Charles Reisner directed the film, and the credited story writer was Carl Harbaugh, although Keaton wrote the script. The film, named after a popular Arthur Collins 1911 song, “Steamboat Bill”, also featured Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, and Tom Lewis. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Free Planet Radio
freeplanetradio.com
Since 2001, Free Planet Radio has been bringing its exciting and innovative world-jazz-classical music blend to both concert stages and classrooms. Based in Asheville NC, this musical partnership began with a clear mission statement as “the shared vision of three multi-instrumentalists exploring the infinite and seamless relationships between musical cultures through the universal language of sound.”
Free Planet Radio performances expertly weave the improvisatory element of jazz, and the subtleties and harmonic vocabulary of Western classical music, with Middle Eastern, Indian and North African melodic and rhythmic structures. Performing mostly original compositions, even while playing extremely complex melodies and time signatures, the trio always maintains a sense of accessibility, spontaneity and easy engagement with the audience. They have performed with jazz singer Lizz Wright, poet Robert Bly, Turkish instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek, bluegrass violinist Casey Driessen, flute virtuoso Rhonda Larson, Armenian singer Mariam Matossian, and Persian violinist Farzad Farhangi. In 2014, Free Planet Radio was awarded a prestigious grant from Chamber Music America commissioning and performances of a new set of works with the Opal String Quartet. In 2016, the trio travelled to the People’s Republic of China for a 20 city tour of their finest concert halls.
Emerging from three of the country’s finest music schools, Free Planet Radio consists of two-time Grammy winner Eliot Wadopian leaping effortlessly between rhythm and melody on electric and string basses; River Guerguerian on an extensive array of global percussion instruments including Middle Eastern frame drums and doumbek, the Indian kanjira, African djembe, and Western drum set; and Chris Rosser exploring melody on the 17-stringed Indian dotar, Turkish cumbus oud, guitar, piano and melodica.
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Our Calendar:
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TICKETS TO SHOWS AVAILABLE ONLINE VIA OUR WEBSITE
Shows:
11/03/17: Beyond Silent – A Movie and Concert with Free Planet Radio – 7pm – $15
11/11/17: Annual Pre-Turkey Day Jam Hosted by Jon Shain – 8pm – $20+
11/24/17: Ultimate Johnny Cash Show Tribute with Johnny Folsom 4 & Guests
11/25/17: Ultimate Johnny Cash Show Tribute with Johnny Folsom 4 & Guests
12/09/17: Jonathan Byrd & Corin Raymond – 8pm – $20
The Cary Theater
122 East Chatham Street
Cary, NC 27511
919.462.2051
The Cary Arts Center
101 Dry Avenue
Cary, NC 27511
919-469-4069
IMURJ Raleigh
300 South McDowell Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
919-825-1515
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