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MARLA FIBISH and BRUCE VICTOR are NOCTAMBULE. Based in San Francisco, they play traditional and original music in a variety of forms original musical settings of a broad array of poetry, original instrumental pieces, and traditional Irish tunes and songs. This unique collaboration brings out qualities in both of these seasoned musicians that you may not have heard from them before. Their music is rendered with lush beauty, sensitivity and humor on an unusual array of strings -- various guitars in varied tunings, mandola, mandolin, bouzouki, cittern, tenor guitar -- and their blended voices.
They take the name Noctambule, French for 'night-owl,' from a Robert Service poem about a nocturnal ramble through the back alleys of Paris, which they have set to music and included on their acclaimed CD Travel in the Shadows. Their first CD together, released in 2013, it explores many forms of the 'night journey' in song, offering the traveler the opportunity to see and experience things differently once the usual sources of light have been extinguished. THE WAKING, their new release, is again poetry-set-to-music with some original instrumentals. The songs explore the vicissitudes, the inscrutability, and the ultimately indomitable nature of time. More at www.noctambulemusic.com.
"...poetry set magnificently to original music...exquisite excursions into daydream worlds...like taking a tour of a dozen regions of the land of the human soul...induces a trance of the most luxurious kind." - FolkWorks
"The irregular phrases, unpredictable meters and strangely beautiful harmonies...overlapping voices, guitars, and mandolins conjure a nocturnal world in which the words of some of our finest poets take shape and snap together magically like recently discovered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Travel in the Shadows is folk music at its best--hand made, without a template.'
- Alex DeGrassi
"The arrangements have the kind of genius that reflects lives lived fully, souls not unscathed, but with glittering musical imaginations grounded in joyful glorious experience. The playing is simply beautiful, and the interplay between Bruce's moving, deft yet muscular guitar playing and Marla's always magic mandolin reminds me of watching two strong dancers moving together, creating so much more than the sum of the parts."
-Kevin Carr, Folkworks
TIM CONNELL is well-known to acoustic music fans as a top-tier, virtuoso mandolinist, touring internationally with Mike Marshall's Ger Mandolin Orchestra. Tim has also spent many years putting together a set of solo arrangements for the mandolin, from Brazilian choros to Irish jigs, from Beatles to Broadway. Tim couples these flights of virtuosic picking with heartfelt American songs, giving audiences an intimate window into his virtuosic yet emotional style and his deep passion for music and life.
A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and a virtuoso mandolinist with over twenty years professional performing experience, Tim has created a sophisticated and original global style on the mandolin. Widely regarded as the top North American interpreter of the Brazilian choro style on the mandolin, he has also developed his own unique voice for the instrument, described in a recent Mandolin Magazine cover story as "fiery and energetic, soulful and evocative." More at www.timconnellmusic.com
MARLA FIBISH is well known in the Irish music world, bringing a musicality and excitement to the tradition that is seldom heard on the mandolin. She is also known for her compositions, musical settings of poetry and instrumental pieces that have been featured in her work with Out of the Rain, and Three Mile Stone, and on her recording with Jimmy Crowley, The Morning Star. In addition to the mandolin, Marla brings mandola, tenor guitar, bouzouki, accordion, and her alto voice to the Noctambule sound.
BRUCE VICTOR is an eclectic and accomplished guitarist and composer, who plays several different guitars in several different tunings. Seemingly resisting any single musical genre, he has been labeled a 'poly-stylist' by one of the editors of Acoustic Guitar magazine. He has played with The Sirens of San Francisco, The Triplicates, and as a solo performer. He was the founder of The Acoustic Vortex, a non-profit musical organization that produced house concerts, mentored youth performers, and performed benefit concerts for other non-profit organizations. He is also a practicing psychiatrist and was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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LocationThe Quaker Meeting House (View)
1841 Sheridan Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
United States
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