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Moira Smiley's 2/17 Solo Concert in Missoula w/Special Guest: John Floridis
MOIRA SMILEYS VOICE IS A TRAVELER CONCERT
Moira Smiley's magnificent voice sings, 'The Voice Is A Traveler', weaving her voice through arresting original songs and American + European folksongs she collected in her constant travels.
Very Special Guest: John Floridis
Moira Smiley is a brilliant musician an innovative composer and arranger, and a heartbreakingly beautiful singer. Her music transcends (and expands) boundaries.
BILLY CHILDS, multi-grammy-winning composer/pianist
In her solo show The Voice Is A Traveler, Singer / Composer, Moira Smiley weaves her banjo, accordion and piano around her magnificent voice. Singing and storytelling through her own timeless, original songs and traditional folk songs, we travel through stories of home, belonging, exile, adventure and longing.
Themes of real and metaphorical border-crossings are seen through songs that spring from Anglo-Celtic ballads, American spirituals, European folk laments and sharp, poignant original songs. Moira invites the audience to sing or hum here and there with her. She can somehow inspire any room - anywhere - to sing.
BIOS:
Moira Smiley is a Singer / Composer recently moved from Los Angeles back to her native Vermont. Her remarkable career has had significant impact on vocal music, producing award-winning ensembles, over 100 regularly performed choral works, and a long discography of unique, emotional music. Moira Smiley has toured and recorded with indie-pop stars, Tuneyards, Irish super-group, SOLAS, the pioneering Jayme Stones Lomax Project, multi-grammy winner, Billy Childs Laura Nyro Re-Imagined and with Paul Hillier, KITKA, New World Symphony, on BBC TV and Radio, NPR and PBS. Always improvisational in her approach, Moira marries her study of traditional folk-song with an avant-garde sensibility. She accompanies herself on banjo, accordion, piano and percussive movement while performing solo, or with her vocal group, VOCO. She is well-known and beloved around the world as a choral composer and arranger with millions of singers world-wide singing her music, and a Carnegie Hall concert featuring her music coming in 2020. In 2018 she released her latest solo album and choral songbook, Unzip The Horizon. She has sung in arenas, cathedrals, kitchens, on back porches, sound stages, glaciers and underground with the likes of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Darrell Scott & Tim OBrien and The Lyric String Quartet.
John Floridis, Missoula, Montana based guitarist, singer-songwriter and composer has been a resident in the "Big Sky" state since 1993 having moved there from the strong shouldered, down-but-never-out city of Cleveland, Ohio. He has released 7 recordings mixing bluesy, folk-rock vocal tunes with adventurous solo acoustic guitar compositions including two very popular winter themed recordings "December's Quiet Joy" and The Peaceful Season. His most recent recording is Live From 11th and Grant, the soundtrack from his Northwest Emmy Award winning performance for the Montana PBS program of the same name. The recording features drummer Ed Stalling and bassist John Sporman who combine with Floridis to form the John Floridis Trio.
John has been named Missoula's best musician by the Missoula Independent and remains a consistent finalist in that category. He has performed for over two decades at numerous concert series, festivals and music clubs in the Western region. He has shared the stage with artists as diverse as Shawn Colvin, Derek Trucks, Patty Griffin, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Patty Larkin.
John is also the producer and host of Musicians Spotlight for Montana Public Radio which has been named winner of the Montana Broadcasters Award for Best Non-Commercial Program
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LocationLongstaff House (View)
601 Longstaff St
Missoula, MT 59801
United States
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