Sunday April 23 * 7pm * TICKETS
Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (2023) and No Love Is Sorrow (2020) are the latest albums by American guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the Alt-folk duo Arborea and as a solo artist. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including Red Planet (SAAH 2011) (Rolling Stone Magazine Best 'Under-the-Radar' Albums of 2011, Guitar Player Magazine Editors Top Pick 2011), Fortress of the Sun (ESP-Disk 2013) (All Music Favorite Folk & Favorite Singer-Songwriter Albums 2013, Acoustic Guitar Magazine Best Acoustic Albums of 2013, Echoes Best of 2013 Listeners Poll). Buck has also produced several various artists compilations: We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho (2010), Basket Full of Dragons - a Tribute to Robbie Basho Vol II (2016), Ten Years Gone: A Tribute to Jack Rose (Tompkins Square 2019), Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans (2023), along with the archival live recording; Robbie Basho Live in Forlì, Italy 1982 (2018). In 2016 Buck released his first solo album Immortal Light, followed by Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas (listed among the 'Best Albums of 2018' according to Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard (Los Angeles). In April of 2020 Curran released his third solo album No Love Is Sorrow. Later that month he was interviewed by Jason Woodbury for Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. In May 2020, Premier Guitar Magazine published a feature article and NPR published a Tiny Desk Concert recorded at Buck's apartment in Bergamo, Italy. No Love is Sorrow was also listed among the 'Best Albums of 2020' by Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard. In 2023 Curran released Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity, an album of selected improvisations from 2017 to 2022.
Liam Grant is an acoustic guitar player with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. He made his debut in 2021 with his album "Swung Heavy: Gitarr for Fanatics," released through the Sound-O-Mat, which was met with seemingly endless touring through 2022 both solo and with seasoned veterans such as Mike Gangloff (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers). A split 7-inch single with Gangloff was released in January, and his album "Amoskeag" is in the process of being released through Carbon Records.
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Sylvester regularly performs around the Washington, DC, area as a solo guitarist, as a singer/songwriter, and with numerous folk, world, classical, rock, and jazz groups. His recordings of original compositions include music for solo acoustic guitar, chamber music for classical banjo, and scores for live theater productions. Mark's primary musical influences and interests include folk and world music, cool jazz, prog rock, minimalism, American primitive and contemporary guitar music, and J.S. Bach.