{"id":29497,"date":"2024-05-02T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=29497"},"modified":"2024-05-02T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:11:05","slug":"on-stage-multi-faceted-rachael-sage-brings-her-talents-to-the-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=29497","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Multi-faceted Rachael Sage brings her talents to The Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rachael Sage<\/p><\/div>\n

A pentagon has five sides and a hexagon has six sides. A heptagon has seven sides. An octagon has eight sides, and a nonagon has nine sides.<\/p>\n

How many sides does Rachael Sage\u00a0have?<\/p>\n

The answer is \u2013 who knows?<\/p>\n

Sage, a talented singer\/songwriter\/instrumentalist released her most recent album \u201cThe Other Side\u201d last year. On May 17, she will release her new album \u201cAnother Side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Area music fans will be able to hear songs from both albums \u2013 and a lot more \u2013 when Sage headlines a show on May 2 at Kennett Flash (102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, 484-732-8295, http:\/\/www.kennettflash.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This will mark Sage\u2019s first appearance in Chester County after performing in surrounding areas multiple times last year — City Winery in Philly, Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse in Lancaster and Jamey\u2019s in Lansdowne. She also has done shows in Wilmington.<\/p>\n

Now, she is performing a show in Kennett Square.<\/p>\n

The show at the Flash is billed as \u201cDanielle Howle & Rachael Sage: Musical Mantras.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got back from London. I was on tour in England for five weeks,\u201d said Sage, during a phone interview last evening from Manhattan where she was making a video for her next single, \u201cAlbatross.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this show, it\u2019s myself and my violin player Kelly Halloran \u2013 the same as in the U.K. She\u2019s a multi-talented musician who has played with me for a long time. She is so much more than a violinist. She plays with an extra string so it\u2019s like a viola. I\u2019m sharing the bill with Danielle Howle, who is a good friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother Side\u201d\u00a0is Sage\u2019s acclaimed 2023 album, \u201cThe Other Side,\u201d completely reimagined. With entirely new, acoustic (but not necessarily stripped-down) instrumentation and Sage\u2019s intimate melodies front and center, fans of Sage\u2019s rootsy folk-pop will enjoy these living room-style versions of some of her most timely, soul-stirring material to date.<\/p>\n

Special guests include breakthrough folk artist\u00a0Crys Matthews, along with Trina Hamlin (harmonica), percussionist Quinn (Tracy Chapman), Americana vocal duo\u00a0Annalyse & Ryan, and Nashville singer-songwriters\u00a0Amy Speace\u00a0and\u00a0Grace Pettis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe album will be released May 17 on my label MPress Records,\u201d said Sage, who is like a modern-day Renaissance woman \u2014 singer-songwriter, ballerina, pianist, poet, record label owner, actress, organist, writer and record producer. Currently, she is focused on being a performer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a few lead tracks. The first single was \u2018The Deepest Dark\u2019 and the second one was \u2018The Place of Fun.\u2019 The third is \u2018Albatross,\u2019 which comes out this Friday. I\u2019ve been in New York all day making the video for \u2018Albatross.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI recorded most of it in a home studio in Beacon, New York called The Creek because it overlooks Fishkill Creek,\u201d said Sage. \u201cI also did some of it at The Carriage House in Stamford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking the new album was a great opportunity to revisit the songs from \u2018The Other Side.\u2019 I wanted to get back to the essence of the songs \u2013 stripped down \u2013 more of a living room feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last album was recorded during COVID. It was just such a joy being back in the world after COVID \u2013 to play shows and have intimacy with my audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a whole different perspective on these songs after performing them live. I like to re-do things. If I were an architect, I\u2019d probably re-do my house every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

For \u201cAnother Side,\u201d Sage did more than just sit in the studio and remix the songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the entire album completely revamped \u2013 all from scratch,\u201d said Sage. \u201cI took away the rock and pop elements and figured out how I would play these songs acoustic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sage\u00a0has released 16 studio albums \u2013 starting with \u201cMorbid Romantic\u201d in 1996. She released her sixth album, \u201cBallads & Burlesque\u201d in 2006 and then has faithfully released a new album every two years (on even years) since then \u2013 until COVID hit. Her two most recent LPs are Myopia\u201d in 2018 and \u201cCharacter\u201d in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also released \u2018Poetica\u2019 during the lockdown,\u201d said Sage. \u201c\u2018Poetica\u2019 is a collaborative album I made with Dave Eggar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cinematic and stylistically expansive,\u00a0\u201cPoetica\u201d is a creatively ambitious musical spoken word project distilling a poetic spirit through text, voice and music in the spirit of Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson. What began as a remote duo collaboration between poet\/vocalist\/producer Sage and\u00a0three-time Grammy nominated\u00a0cellist Dave Eggar eventually evolved into a full-blown spoken word concept album, with musicians contributing from around the globe.<\/p>\n

Produced and engineered by Sage herself, \u201cPoetica\u201d aims to create connection and shared experience via the unifying power of words. Adventurous yet familiar in its intimacy, Sage\u2019s voice is perfectly at home in the absence of typical song structure, while her musical arrangements fuse elements of jazz, classical and Appalachian folk with surprising agility.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave Eggar and I took my poetry, and we collaborated on the music,\u201d said Sage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Other Side\u201d returned Sage to the singer\/songwriter world.<\/p>\n

Sage\u00a0has developed a loyal international following for her dynamic piano playing, delicate guitar work, and improvisational audience interaction. A six-time Independent Music Award winner,\u00a0Sage\u00a0has toured with an eclectic list of artists including Howard Jones, Beth Hart, Ani DiFranco, and Grammy\u00ae winners Shawn Colvin and Judy Collins \u2013 with whom she also recorded a critically-acclaimed duet of Neil Young’s \u201cHelpless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since founding her own label MPress Records two decades ago, Sage\u00a0has steadily released a slew of vibrant, dynamic albums with poetic lyrics spanning subjects as wide as her inspirations.<\/p>\n

Some of Sage\u2019s tour dates a while back were cancelled because she was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in remission for six years,\u201d said Sage. \u201cI had endometrial cancer. I eat healthy and exercise and I stay in remission. I think that doing what you love is the best medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In early 2020, Sage released an intimate video for \u201cBravery\u2019s On Fire,\u201d which was the first single off \u201cCharacter.\u201d Directed by longtime collaborator and award-winning filmmaker Tom Moore, the video is an emotional, cinema verit\u00e9 window into her own recovery from cancer. 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the single were targeted to benefit women\u2019s cancer\u00a0research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the two institutions where Sage received her treatment.<\/p>\n

Now on the other side of treatment and in complete remission, Sage hopes to raise awareness of this disease, which is the most common type of women\u2019s cancer with more than 60,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States alone and 530,000 women worldwide.<\/p>\n

A self-described \u201ccancer thriver,\u201d she is additionally a philanthropic advocate who has raised money for a wide range of causes, including Foundation For Women’s Cancer,\u00a0WHY Hunger, American Refugee Committee,\u00a0and National Network For Youth (NN4Y).<\/p>\n

Working to benefit women\u2019s cancer, hunger and refugees \u2013 that\u2019s just another side of the multidimensional artist.<\/p>\n

Video link for Rachael Sage \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q554hY_oXAs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Kennett Flash on May 2 will start at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at Kennett Flash are Lisa Sanders on May 3, a free show by Vento, Ziggy, Hawk & McCarthy\u00a0on May 4, and Minor Gold on May 5.<\/p>\n

A self-described \u201ccancer thriver,\u201d she is additionally a philanthropic advocate who has raised money for a wide range of causes, including Foundation For Women’s Cancer,\u00a0WHY Hunger, American Refugee Committee,\u00a0and National Network For Youth (NN4Y).<\/p>\n

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Sean Chambers<\/p><\/div>\n

Sean Chambers, who will be performing at the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808, www.st94.com<\/a>) on May 6, has had blues and blues-influenced rock pulsing through his veins since he was a young musician.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to play an instrument, so I chose guitar,\u201d said Chambers, during a phone interview Tuesday from a tour stop in Syracuse, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents got me a guitar when I was 11. They wanted me to take lessons from a local teacher. That didn\u2019t work because he wanted to play \u2018Mary Had a Little Lamb\u2019 and I wanted to rock out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 15, a friend picked me up a cassette \u2013 Jimi Hendrix\u2019 \u2018Red House.\u2019 My hair stood on end. I listened to tape to learn how to play music. When I heard Hendrix, I said \u2013 that\u2019s what I want to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, a buddy played me Stevie Ray Vaughan\u2019s \u2018Voodoo Chile.\u2019 That got me into musicians like Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray. Then, I got into their influences. I don\u2019t know what it is about Texas \u2013 Billy Gibbons, Freddie King, Albert King \u2013 a lot of guys I really liked were from Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his junior and senior high school years, Chambers had split loyalties.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played football in high school at Plant High School in Tampa,\u201d said Chambers. \u201cThen, I arrived at the crossroads of music and sports \u2013 and chose music. I started my first band after high school when I was 19 \u2013 Code Blue. I finally did my first album in 1998.\u201d<\/p>\n

In. 1998, Chambers released his debut album,\u00a0\u201cStrong Temptation,\u201d which was heavily influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan\u2019s style of playing.<\/p>\n

Chambers continued to progress stylistically and musically with\u00a0his next release, 2004\u2019s \u201cHumble Spirits.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The critically acclaimed\u00a0\u201cTen Til Midnight\u201d\u00a0followed in October 2009, to positive reviews and stayed on the\u00a0Living Blues\u00a0chart for three months.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0live album,\u00a0\u201cLive from the Long Island Blues Warehouse,\u201d\u00a0was released in 2011 and incorporated some material from\u00a0\u201cStrong Temptation\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cHumble Spirits,\u201d and was a collection of mainly fast tempo blues rock.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Chambers recorded at Kevin McKendree\u2019s Rock House Studios, and, in October that year, he released\u00a0\u201cThe Rock House Sessions.\u201d It was nominated for a Blues Blast Music Award as Best Blues Rock Album of the Year.<\/p>\n

On March 17, 2017, Chambers issued his sixth album, \u201cTrouble & Whiskey,\u201d which\u00a0went to No. 11 in the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Blues Albums Chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to My Blues\u201d\u00a0was released in 2018\u00a0and reached No. 9 in the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Blues Albums Chart in November 2018.<\/p>\n

His latest album,\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s What I\u2019m Talkin\u2019 About,\u201d was released in 2021 on Quarto Valley Records, and is a tribute to\u00a0his friend and mentor Hubert\u00a0Sumlin.<\/p>\n

The album consists of nine tracks that were frequently performed when Chambers was backing and serving as Sumlin\u2019s band leader in the late 1990s, along with one original song written by Chambers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s What I\u2019m Talkin\u2019 About\u201d reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Blues Charts and received great accolades and rave reviews around the globe.<\/p>\n

Chambers actually began his career in the blues back in 1998 when he toured with the legendary Hubert Sumlin as his guitarist and band leader until 2003. During Sean\u2019s tenure with Mr. Sumlin, Britain\u2019s own Guitarist magazine named Chambers as \u201cOne of the top 50 blues guitarists of the last century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in 1998, my manager Steve Einzig called and said that Hubert Sumlin was playing at Blues Stock in Memphis and could put a band together to be his band for the show,\u201d said Chambers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, Hubert wanted us to be his group. For a long time, he was always a sideman. I toured with him\u00a0\u00a0 all over the world for four years from 1998-2003.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sumlin was a\u00a0Chicago blues\u00a0guitarist and singer,\u00a0best known for his \u201cwrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions\u201d as a member of\u00a0Howlin\u2019 Wolf\u2019s band. Sumlin dies in December 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m touring now with Savoy Brown\u2019s rhythm section \u2013 bassist Pat DeSalvo and drummer Garnet Grimm,\u201d said Chambers. \u201cWe\u2019re a three-piece. My whole career has pretty much been as a three-piece. It takes a certain kind to pull off a trio. These guys are really great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Grimm and DeSalvo were part of the longest continuously running lineup in Savoy Brown\u2019s history up until the tragic passing of Savoy Brown co-founder\/guitarist Kim Simmonds in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0The band will perform several Savoy Brown classics along with Sean\u2019s original music.<\/p>\n

Video link for Sean Chambers — https:\/\/youtu.be\/QLtulu5POgI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show in Sellersville on May 5 will start at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $21.50 and $29.50.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at the Sellersville Theater are Vanilla Fudge on May 2, Margaret Glaspy on May 3, Darlingside on May 4, Holly Near on May 5 and the Furious Bongos on May 8.<\/p>\n

With midsummer-like weather, a stage for live music and a great vista overlooking the Delaware, Fringe Bar (140 Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, fringebarphilly.com<\/a>) can be a great place to visit on May 2 \u2013 especially because there will be a free concert there.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night from 8-11:30, Fringe Bar will host a free show featuring Brian K and the Parkway, Tinmouth, and Laurel.<\/p>\n

Brian K. Pagels and Stephen Russ, the DC-area duo,\u00a0Brian K & The Parkway, released their debut album, \u201cKilling The Bear,\u201d March 29, 2024. The nine-song collection, a nod to the \u201970s rock sound of artists like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Warren Zevon, is guitar-based, roots-oriented rock, infused with a healthy dose of soul and R&B.<\/p>\n

The duo dubs their sound \u201ccoastal heartland rock,\u201d reflecting the fact that their major influences are\u00a0artists that hail from coastal areas\u00a0such as New Jersey, Florida, and California, but are known for their own mix of\u00a0classic\u00a0heartland rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up in D.C. 10 years ago for job reasons,\u201d said Russ, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon from his home in Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Pagels and Russ\u00a0formed\u00a0Brian K & The Parkway\u00a0in\u00a02021. Pagels is from Springsteen\u2019s hometown of Freehold, N.J. and Russ is from the Carolinas. Both\u00a0share an innate connection to The Boss and are acutely inspired by him.\u00a0Although the guys refer to the band name fondly as \u201cvery Jersey,\u201d it denotes Pagels\u2019s name and the fact that\u00a0The George Washington Memorial Parkway connects the route between their Northern Virginia homes. Pagels lives in Alexandria and Russ lives in Arlington.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian and I met because I went out for one of his other bands,\u201d said Russ. \u201cWe also had shows together when we were in different bands and were hanging out together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to record an album right before COVID hit. Two years later, we were finally able to finish the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian is the main writer \u2013 chorus, melody, guts of the song \u2013 and then brings them to me. I play drums so I suggest dynamic ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also a producer \u2013 taking what is good and sculpting it into a finished piece. We\u2019re a team. Brian plays guitar and a little piano and sings. I play drums.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the record, we used people from D.C. and Atlanta. It was easy to do things remote. We used Cat Popper and sax player Sam Skelton. It was an easy process to put the band together. For these upcoming shows, we\u2019re a five-piece \u2013 two guitars, keyboards, bass and drums.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album was mostly made by Pagels and Russ. It was mastered by\u00a0Justin Perkins\u00a0(North Mississippi Allstars, The Replacements, Lydia Loveless), co-engineered by\u00a0Zac Thomas\u00a0at The Jam Room in Columbia, S.C.,\u00a0and co-produced and mixed by\u00a0Collin Derrick.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recorded drums and some guitar at The Jam Room,\u201d said Russ. \u201cThey record to analog tape, and we wanted that sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong before that, Brian was writing the songs \u2013 prior to COVID. Brian wrote some songs and then we didn\u2019t listen to them for a year. As a result, we had a chance to make some improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n

The overarching theme of \u201cKilling The Bear\u201d is about our ever-increasing inability as humans to deal with the source of our problems and instead, look to surface-level, near-term solutions, and then declare immediate victory. The songs serve as vignettes about the things we do to cope, for better or worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a concept album with all separate stories,\u201d said Russ. \u201cThe basic tenet is that people try to find a quick solution instead of digging deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Brian K & The Parkway \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/k8hOfToy7Wg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Fringe Bar will start at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Admission is free.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Now for Something Completely Different\u201d was the name of a 1971 British sketch comedy film based on the television comedy series Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus.<\/p>\n

The phrase could also be used as a description of a new theatrical show in Philadelphia \u2013 \u201cThe Worst Cafe in the World,\u201d which is running now through May 5 at Poth Brewery (3145 West Jefferson Street, Philadelphia, tinydynamite.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tiny\u00a0Dynamite\u00a0and\u00a0Big Telly\u00a0cordially invite guests to the opening of their caf\u00e9. There are no meals, per se, but there is a menu of theatrical bites to serve as a bouche.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Worst Cafe in the World\u201d\u00a0is presenting its North American premiere with two engagements \u2014 one at Off-Broadway\u2019s\u00a0Origin 1st Irish Festival in New York City\u00a0and the other at the Philadelphia venue.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0The Worst Cafe In The World,\u00a0guests will be seated and provided with a menu from which they\u2019ll \u201corder\u201d a series of theatrical moments from performer\/servers (Anna Lieberman,\u00a0Gabe Moses, and\u00a0David Pica) — small bites, entrees for a table, or sharing platters for the whole cafe.<\/p>\n

From there, diners might enjoy a monologue, a digital experience, a full-audience improvisation, or something else entirely unexpected and thoroughly enjoyable.\u00a0 The gastro-theatrical delights may be salty, sweet, or completely unexpected, and diners get to choose all of their dramatic courses. Picture a dish arriving covered in a cloche, only to discover a mini-puppet theater on the plate.<\/p>\n

Reservations for a table at\u00a0The Worst Cafe\u00a0first started in Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival in October 2019. It was such a success that the owners decided to pop up in top secret locations in towns throughout Northern Ireland in March 2021, including masquerading as a seafront caf\u00e9 in Portstewart, followed by a covert operation in Armagh.<\/p>\n

This special collaboration between Tiny\u00a0Dynamite\u00a0and Big Telly will be dished up by lead theatrical chefs (i.e., developed by) Kathryn \u201cKC\u201d MacMillan, Artistic Director of Tiny\u00a0Dynamite, and\u00a0Zoe Seaton, Artistic Director of Big Telly.<\/p>\n

For the last 14 years, Tiny\u00a0Dynamite\u00a0has produced welcoming, empathetic, and community-based stories. All programs take place under the banner of \u201cA Play, a Pie, and a Pint,\u201d a unique theatrical experience where each moderately priced ticket includes a performance, food, and beverage, often with seating at communal tables.<\/p>\n

Big Telly brings world class theatre to small communities in Northern Ireland. It is a conduit between rural communities and urban platforms, providing a space for exchange, brokering wider conversations about the local, the global and our place in society. All of its work is interactive, co-created and bespoke, addressing issues of sustainability, accessibility, and diversifying views on cultural identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met Zoe and we hit it off right away,\u201d said \u201cKC\u201d MacMillan. \u201cWe like to provide theater with a difference. Both Big Telly and Tiny Dynamite have a whimsical aspect.<\/p>\n

\u201cZoe told me about Worst Caf\u00e9 \u2013 a very creative, interactive experience with the audience. She asked me if Tiny Dynamite would like to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a tagline \u2018brilliantly casual,\u2019 we cultivate environments that are welcoming and casual \u2013 serving up drinks, wild creativity and brilliant performers in non-theatrical spaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe described it as theater in a restaurant. We draw \u2018diners\u2019 into the experience. We invite them to come have a drink and then draw them in.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoth Brewery has been used for theater a few times. For this, we needed it to look like a rundown restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The meal is divided into three phases \u2013 appetizers, small plates and main course shared plates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe appetizers are a series of little gags \u2013 little special effects that you can order at the table,\u201d said McMillan. \u201cThe small plates are really special \u2013 speeches, monologues delivered directly to your table. It could be Shakespeare, Greek theater, Ibsen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main menu is served family style. There are scenes from a historical play that happen all across the room, more Shakespeare, solos from musicals, great scenes from theater. The menu is a bit different every night.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, of course, even the worst cafe in the world wouldn\u2019t send guests away hungry. Every ticket holder receives a complimentary beverage and snack.<\/p>\n

The show at Poth Brewery is running now through May 5 with seatings at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This prix fixe experience is $25 per guest.<\/p>\n

On May 4,\u00a0SRUTI\u00a0(www.sruti.org<\/a>) will present a Carnatic Violin Concert by the Lalgudi siblings — Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi at the West Chester East High School Auditorium (450 Ellis Lane, West Chester, www.sruti.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization. Every year, around 10 or more world class music and dance recitals are presented during the Spring and Fall seasons by\u00a0SRUTI\u00a0in the Greater Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n

Lalgudi Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi belong to the fifth generation in the\u00a0sishya parampara\u00a0of the saint composer\u00a0Sadhguru Tyagaraja. They were groomed in music under their gurus \u2013 their grandfather Sri Lalgudi Gopala Iyer and father legendary violinist-composer Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman. The duo has imbibed the essence of the\u00a0Lalgudi bani\u00a0and enhanced it significantly by their own virtuosity and creativity.<\/p>\n

Lalgudi Krishnan\u2019s music is noted for its sensitive tonality, spontaneity, tasteful exploration of\u00a0vivadi ragas, innovative\u00a0kalpana svaras replete with melody, intricate rhythmic patterning and innovative\u00a0korvais, which have been acclaimed by veteran masters and contemporary musicians.<\/p>\n

Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi\u2019s music is replete with\u00a0raga bhava\u00a0and\u00a0saukhyam. Vijayalakshmi\u2019s raga essays instantly capture the essence and soul of the raga, with a freshness of perspective in every exposition.<\/p>\n

Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi are best known for their scintillating violin duet concerts. Their duets are marked by pristine classicism and musical dignity, exquisite melody and intricate rhythm, deep intellect, refreshing creativity, instrumental virtuosity, wide repertoire, interesting and stimulating pallavis, engaging impromptu raga and swara repartees.<\/p>\n

Though they are both torch bearers of the Lalgudi bani, their styles are in fact distinct and contrasting in a way that complements each other and enhances the beauty and concert experience. They also perform solos, where audiences get to enjoy their respective individual styles. True to their bani, they use their commendable violin virtuosity to project\u00a0artha bhava\u00a0and\u00a0raga bhava\u00a0rather than to showcase instrumental skill for its own sake.<\/p>\n

They will be accompanied by Shri. B. Guru Raghavendra on Mridangam and KV Gopalakrishnan on Kanjira.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0mridangam\u00a0is a\u00a0percussion instrument\u00a0of ancient origin. It is the primary rhythmic accompaniment in a\u00a0Carnatic music\u00a0ensemble.<\/p>\n

The kanjira,\u00a0a South Indian frame drum,\u00a0is\u00a0an instrument of the tambourine family.\u00a0As a folk and bhajan instrument, it has been used in the Indian subcontinent for many centuries.<\/p>\n

Video link for Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi — https:\/\/youtu.be\/6B-QRAB7E7A<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at W.C. East High School on May 4 will start at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $35 for adults, $25 for seniors and $50 for premier seating.<\/p>\n

Jamey\u2019s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, 215-477-9985,www.jameyshouseofmusic.com<\/a>) will host the Max Kaplan and the Magics and Slim and the Perkolators on May 2, the Kennedys on May 3, and the Deb Callahan Band on May 4<\/p>\n

The shows at Jamey\u2019s House of Music will start at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

For all three shows, tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.<\/p>\n

All three shows will also be available as a pay-per-view at $15 each<\/p>\n

\u201cJazz at Jamey\u2019s\u201d will be presented every second and fourth Thursday, and \u201cAnything Goes\u201d every first, third and fifth Thursday.<\/p>\n

Every Sunday, Jamey\u2019s presents \u201cSUNDAY BLUES BRUNCH & JAM\u201d featuring the Philly Blues Kings. On the second Sunday each month, the featured act is the Girke-Davis Project which features club owner Jamey Reilly, Roger Girke, Glenn Bickel, Fred Berman and Colgan-Davis.<\/p>\n

Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (226 North High Street, West Chester, www.uptownwestchester.org<\/a>) is presenting Best of the Eagles on May 2 and Better Than Bacon on May 3.<\/p>\n

This week, the Elkton Music Hall (107 North Street, Elkton, Maryland, www.elktonmusichall.com<\/a>) will host Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche on May 3 and Crystal Ship Tribute to The Doors on May 4.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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