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An Evening with Geoff Berner and Jason Webley
Door 7:00pm - All Ages Show - Bar with I.D.
The avenging angel of klezmer. Canadas Globe & Mail
Singer/songwriter/accordionist/novelist Geoff Berners music combines klezmer (for the uninitiated, the folk music of Eastern European Jews), punk, political satire, and Balkan dance rhythms. He writes sharp, literate songs that make you want to weep, laugh, grind your teeth, or kick out a windowoften all at the same time. A lot of famous people have covered his compositions. Look it up. Berner has built a serious cult following through-out North America and Europe by touring relentlessly through thousands of bars, cafés, and festivals. With his weirdly compelling stage presence, he has a strange ability to create fun chaos. He describes his typical audience members as odd, bookish people who like to drink. Theres a surprising number of physicists.
Berner counts himself as part of the Klezmer Bund movement of makers of Radical Jewish Culture, artists like Daniel Kahn of Berlin, Psoy Korelenko from Moscow, and the rabble-rousing Jewdas group in London. The Klezmer Bund rejects orthodox and ultra-Zionist conservative notions of Jewish identity, and seeks to connect with the deep roots of left-wing Jewish thought in a way thats entertaining and accessible for everybody.
Geoff Berner might be klezmers saviour. -NOW Magazine
5/6 -Oslo Dagvisen
An evening spent with Geoff Berners music is, in the words of the good Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a wild combination of menace, madness, and genius... fragmented coherence that wreaks havoc on the mind of any listener. Vue Weekly, Edmonton
Cherish him, cherish him, for there really is no one like him. Fantastic. -Billy Bragg
Jason Webley is an Everett-based troubadour. Starting as a street performer in 1998, Webley has built an international following with his whimsical stories and passionate songs. He has released seven albums and numerous collaborations on his own Eleven Records label. Armed with an accordion, a guitar, a porkpie hat and a plastic vodka bottle full of pennies, he has travelled to forty countries, performing everywhere from a former Siberian gulag to the 2014 TED conference. His recent project, Margaret tells the unlikely and magical story of Margaret Rucker, the daughter of one of Webley's hometown's founders, whose scrapbook was found in a San Francisco dumpster.
One of Seattles most talented musicians, a singer-songwriter with a rare gift for crafting timeless songs that approach Waits and Leonard Cohen territory."
- Seattle Times
"Webley owned the audience. The fans danced along the aisles for song after song as he took them on a journey through sadness, happiness and just plain craziness."
- The Stranger
"Webley howls at the rafters with the courage and conviction of a long-gone sailor, and seduces the candlelight with melodies as delicate as a gossamer balloon; he pumps the bellows like a Romanian wedding singer and feathers the keys like a desert drifter."
-San Francisco Weekly
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LocationThe Old Church Concert Hall (View)
1422 SW 11th Ave at Clay St
Portland, OR 97201
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: Yes! |
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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