FOLK performance series
Jack Rose // Uncle Woody Sullender
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Doors at 8pm, Price $8
Jack Rose
Ex-Member of the legendary drone/noise/folk group Pelt. Since 2001 Rose has pursued his own path in the solo acoustic guitar solo genre as invented by John Fahey. Like Fahey Rose draws his inspiration from early rural American musicians like Charley Patton, Skip James and Blind Blake. In addition to those influences he gleans inspiration from Robbie Basho, Ry Cooder, Zia M. Dagar, La Monte Young, Terry Riley. Jack incorporates all of these elements into his own idiosyncratic style and it is his sound and his alone. Since 2002 he has released 3 critically acclaimed LP’s for the Eclipse label, an lp and a single for the Philadelphia label tequila sunrise, 3 cd’s for VHF, a 14 min track alongside fellow travelers: Rick Bishop, Steffen Basho-Junghans and Tetuzi Akiyama on the now influential “Wooden Guitar” anthology released by Locust and one side on the massive triple LP set, “You Shall Know the Roots, by it’s Fruits” with Six Organs of Admittance, Fursaxa, Joshua, Dredd Foole, MV and EE. Originally from Virgina, but calls Philadelphia home, where he has resided since 1998.
Uncle Woody Sullender
Under the not-so-clever moniker of “Uncle Woody Sullender”, Woody Sullender performs improvised banjo music, playing with and against the cultural baggage of the instrument. While alluding to the “traditional” musics of his home states of Virginia and North Carolina, he explores a diverse plane of plucked string music from around the world as well as incorporating punk, noise, free jazz, etc..
He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang, Kyle Bruckmann, Carol Genetti, Jason Ajemian, Chris Forsyth, members of the Vandermark 5, TV Pow, and Cheer Accident, among others. In 2004, he collaborated with sound artist Maryanne Amacher, incorporating his banjo recordings into “TEO! A sonic sculpture” which won the Golden Nica at the 2005 Ars Electronica festival.