Gachopon is an improvisational quartet featuring
Nancy Beckman, Cindy Webster,
Tom Bickley and
Dean Santomieri; playing a variety of instruments including: shakuhachi, lyre, EWI (electronic wind instrument), bowed, amplified saw, hurdy-gurdy, taishogoto, guitar, percussion and voice. Opening for Gachopon we have
Lorin Benedict, solo. Lorin is a singer who practices a vocal idiom that evinces an obsessive concentration on phonetic structures that suggest language, but defy conventional decoding. He calls what he does "scat singing", but it goes way beyond that.
COVID still hasn't gone away, so we have to make some accommodations to it. Seating will be strictly limited -- we may have to turn you away if we fill our (reduced) capacity. You must be vaccinated against COVID, and you must wear a mask while on the premises. We won't have any snacks, because it seems to me like that's incompatible with masking.
Tom's Place
3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley CA
Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/0ots0lvkk7164af1t953opr5o4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
Directions: http://4-33.com/directions.html
Information: http://4-33.com/toms-place/index.html
Admission: donation. All proceeds go directly to the musicians.
Doors open at 7:30. Wheelchair accessible.