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Sunday October 23 * Doors at 4, Show at 4:30 * TICKETS

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George Stavis is a singular player, among the finest 5-string banjo players of his generation. Although trained in the traditions of Pete Seeger and Earl Scruggs, in the late 1960s Stavis developed a unique approach to the instrument which expanded it in both popular and exotic directions. His first solo album, "Labyrinths," on the Vanguard label, is considered a landmark for improvisational performance, one that brought the banjo into the “world music” category, with its evocations of jazz, classical and Indian music. Later, Stavis developed the electric banjo, fronting a popular West Coast band, Oganookie. In the mid-’80s, Stavis released a folk orchestral album, "Morning Mood." Stavis has opened for such artists as Richie Havens, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead, and Jean-Luc Ponty, as well as performing duets with the late banjo innovator Bill Keith. His early work has recently been re-released in Italy and the UK, and a recent solo piece can be heard on Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 3 (Tompkins Square). Stavis performed to a rapt audience at the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose Festival of American Primitive Music. He currently resides in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

The guitar music of Elkhorn is rooted in the interplay of Jesse Sheppard’s twelve-string acoustic fingerpicking and Drew Gardner’s electric lead. Their music draws from folk, psych, blues, and jazz sources. This evening they will be joined by Nate Scheible on drums, who plays on their new LP “Distances,” available September 16th on Feeding Tube Records. As Byron Coley writes, “This formation is capable of psyching-out with pure guitar force. The Ouroboran elements of open-form improvisation-based music really gel when the snakes are encouraged to eat their own tails.”

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