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Glen Jones with Mike Gangloff with Friends in Concert
Venue: Rising Silo Farm Brewery, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Glenn Jones, Mike & Cara Gangloff
Date: Saturday, November 11, 2017
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials
Cost: Free

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Rising Silo Farm Brewery presents Glen Jones in concert on Saturday, November 11, 2017.

Since 1989, Glenn Jones, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has led Boston’s “avant-garage” instrumental rock band, Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date, including a soundtrack for cult-director Roger Corman, and collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki.

Glenn Jones is a master of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by John Fahey, whose traditional fingerpicking techniques and wide-ranging influences were used to create modern original compositions. Jones brings his own made-up tunings, the use of custom-crafted partial capos, and a highly skilled picking style on both banjo and guitar, to create personal compositions that are lyrical, emotive and elegant. What sets him apart from the myriad guitarists playing today is his ability to tell stories with the guitar and banjo, and to convey a range of emotions. This process starts with the compositions themselves and carries through to his selection of recording environment and engineer.

A 30-plus-year devotee of the so-called “Takoma School”, Jones has written extensively on the steel-string guitar’s leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly 25 years, and Robbie Basho, who befriended Jones during the five years before his untimely death in 1986.

With former Takoma label guitarists Peter Lang and Michael Gulezian — along with Loren Mazzacane Connors, Henry Kaiser, Gary Lucas, Tony Conrad and others — Jones performed at sold-out concerts honoring John Fahey, in NYC and San Francisco, shortly after Fahey’s death in 2001.

In 2004, Jones stepped out of the long shadow cast by Takoma’s guitar visionaries and offered his own "new possibility" — This Is the Wind That Blows It Out — for Strange Attractors Audio House. Its release was followed by a month-long tour of Europe with guitarist Jack Rose. Jones has since shared bills with Steffen Basho-Junghans, Max Ochs, Matt Valentine / Erika Elder; along with Rose, he’s toured with Peter Lang, and with some of the best of the new breed of solo guitar upstarts: Harris Newman, Sean Smith, and James Blackshaw, among others.

Links:

• http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/glenn-jones
• https://www.facebook.com/GlennJonesGuitar

Mike and Cara Gangloff are Appalachian indie folkers with an international taste in their instrumentation (hardanger fiddle, hurdy gurdy, more) and a unified musical theory that connects the dots from free jazz and improv music to the Gershwins and regional old-time tunes.

Mike Gangloff is also a member of the old-time stringband Black Twig Pickers and the acoustic band Pelt among others.

Links:

• https://mikecaragangloff.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/MikeCaraGangloff

Relax on the patio of Blacksburg's only farm brewery to the taste of craft local brews and kombucha.

A warm and hearty meal prepared by the farm kitchen, Tabula Rasa, is available by cash donation, and supplied by products of Glade Road Growing, Strong Earth Farm and Hoof Hearted Farm LLC and all your favorite local growers and crafters!

Tips encouraged for musicians, there is no cover fee.

Rising Silo Brewery is a family-friendly, dog friendly vibe and all are welcome.

For more information, visit: http://www.risingsilobrewery.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/risingsilobrewery or call 540-750-0796.