 | Time: May 20, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: The Lilly Pad
Organized By: just roots pr
Event Description:
FreeNote Music announces the MicroTime Tour featuring New York City’s Harmonically Tuned electric blues ensembles, 13 O’Clock Blues Band and Willie McBlind, both led by innovative guitarist and composer, Jon Catler. MicroTime will cut a swath of the Northeast, with appearances slated in Jersey City, Boston and New York City.
The 13 O’Clock Blues Band and Willie McBlind will play a double bill show at the Lily Pad in the creative hub of Inman Square in Cambridge, MA on Thursday, June 11th from 7-10pm; Admission $15 at the door; www.lily-pad.net.
The MicroTime Tour lands on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Friday, June 19th at 8pm at The Triad. This show will highlight charismatic electric Delta blues act Willie McBlind in the release of its eagerly awaited second CD, Bad Thing, with 13 O’Clock Blues Band capping off the evening. The show will begin with a discussion and demonstration of Harmonic Blues led by Catler. Admission at door $15. www.thetriadnyc.com.
At the helm of 13 O’Clock Blues Band, Jon Catler has received a grant from Meet The Composer’s Creative Connections to present his work in all 3 cities, giving the audience the opportunity to glimpse inside Catler’s progressive ideas on Harmonic Rhythm. Known for his work with legendary composer La Monte Young, Catler has delved deeply into the Harmonic Series producing long form pieces that glean rhythmic and lyrical material directly from the Overtone Series.
Willie McBlind will kick off the release of its second CD, Bad Thing, as part of the MicroTime Tour.
As articulated by Downbeat blues columnist and 2007 Blues Foundation Keeping the Blues Alive awardee in Journalism, Frank-John Hadley, “The Willie McBlind band’s timing is consummate.
In this stagnant decade for the blues, with most of the idiomatic action sadly relegated to the obituary column, the New York City-based quartet fronted by virtuosic guitarist Jon Catler and talented singer Meredith “Babe” Borden offers a singularly exciting type of electric blues. Willie McBlind uses the pitches or tones found between the notes of the traditional Western scale to create a mesmerizing pitch-and-rhythm vernacular Catler calls “Harmonic blues.” Behind the entertainment, attentive listeners feel a fervid creative intelligence and a heart present in the microtonal blues of the new Willie McBlind album, Bad Thing--set for release on June 1, 2009, courtesy of FreeNote Records.”
Thursday, June 11, 7-10pm
featuring: Willie McBlind and 13 O'Clock Blues Band
The Lily Pad
Inman Square, 1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
$15 @ door
www.lily-pad.net
Contact: Meredith Borden
phone: 212-580-0602
freenote@earthlink.net
www.microtones.com
www.myspace.com/williemcblind
www.13oclockbluesband.com
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