Poster by Josh Levi
Saturday March 16 * 3pm * $15-20 * TICKETS
Growing up in the Annapolis area and attending University of Maryland with friend and labelmate Robbie Basho, Max Ochs contributed two tracks for the 1967 "Contemporary Guitar" on John Fahey’s Takoma label. Inspired by his friend Fahey, Ochs developed his own interest in fingerstyle guitar, learning from one of the masters, Mississippi John Hurt, during a one-month residency in Ochs’ New York apartment when Hurt reappeared on the folk scene in 1964. Ochs was also performing with the legendary band, Seventh Sons, founded by Greenwich Village mainstay and early folk innovator Buzzy Linhart. Seventh Sons were a massively popular NYC band during the years of 1962-1964, recording tracks for Capitol Records for their debut record which was scrapped after Ochs left the band and New York. Ochs has continued recording and performing in his spare time, releasing music on the Fonotone and Tompkins Square labels.
Ethan WL is a musician and filmmaker from Gloucester, MA. His solo repertoire is in the American Primitive Guitar style, made popular by past players such as John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Jack Rose. He also plays electric guitar in the ambient group Janet Fang and bass in the progressive metal band Woid Bear And The 13th Apostle. In 2023 he released his debut solo album "The Pink House" and completed his first narrative film Queen City Blues, which won a Special Jury Mention at the Made Here Film Festival in Burlington, VT.
Jon Camp is a fingerstyle guitarist and composer from the Washington, DC region. Jon blends twang, drone, and melody into a coherent whole that is exploratory without forsaking the hook. Of Jon’s recent self-titled release on Centripetal Force, Andy French of Raven Sings the Blues said, "From fingerpicked folk to broken dawn blues, glycerine Loren Conners contemplation, bluegrass breezes and non-trad tributaries, the album doesn’t settle. With so many muses, Jon keeps things from swerving between impulses, finding a common beam between the hues in his wheel of colors." For Jon’s Rhizome set, he'll perform in a trio setting with guitarist Dave Jones (The Caribbean) and drummer Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek, Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders).