Bearsville Theater
The Barr Brothers (of the band The Slip)
The Barr Brothers (of the band The Slip) with special guests, Alana Amram and The Rough Gems, & Kaite Moore
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Doors: 8pm
Show: 9pm
Tickets: $10
Brad Barr - guitars, vocals
Sarah Page - harp, hammered dulcimer
Andrew Barr - percussion
Andres Vial - pump organ, wurlitzer, vibes
Best known as founding members of the spirited and unpredictable rock trio The Slip, the brothers have crafted a beautiful new self titled album together with several esteemed Montreal musicians.
Brad Barr shared a joining wall with harpist Sara Page, whose melodies would seep through the cracks, weaving their way into the music he was writing. The brothers began recording and performing with Sarah and bassist Miles Perkin around Montreal.
A self-produced, self-recorded labor of love, the ten song album was written over the course of the brothers time in a city full of strangers, lovers, old ghosts and new friends and recorded in their makeshift studio in an old boiler room at the foot of Mount Royal.
The carefully crafted record features harpist Sarah Page (Lhasa DeSela/Amon Tobin), bassist Miles Perkin (Lhasa DeSela) and several other Montreal musicians, including Elizabeth Powell from Land of Talk and Emma Baxter. Montreal keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Andres Vial has recently joined the band, lending his amazing talent and spirit.
ALANA AMRAM is a Brooklyn based singer/ songwriter who fronts country rock band Alana Amram & the Rough Gems. Formed in 2003, they have toured internationally. She also plays bass for Lights (Drag City). Amram and the Rough Gems are finishing up their first LP Painted Lady with producer Jesse Lauter (James Blood Ulmer, The Low Anthem). Breaking the industry standard, they are releasing their second LP, Songs of Vince Martin simultaneously. Produced by Jesse Lauter and Mark Sebastian (Loving Spoonful.) Amram comes from a huge music family, often seen sitting in with the band. She has garnered a reputation for her classic songwriting. Influenced heavily by folk, country- western storytellers and early rock and roll, the Rough Gems range from deep sentiment to wild honky tonk. They are currently the subject for the feature length documentary Sound of Asphalt.
The ROUGH GEMS are: Adira Amram, Phillip Sterk, Alec Morton, Alec Higgins, Sam Hopkins, Dave Lindsay, Jesse Lauter & special guests!
KATIE MOORE, from Montreal is an uncompromising songstress whose haunting music defies quick categorization. It lies somewhere in the no-man’s-land between folk, alt-country, bluegrass, and Americana.
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