Sam Amidon Duo
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About
Sam Amidon was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk musicians Peter and Mary Alice Amidon. He has released three albums of radically re-worked folksongs: "But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted," recorded at his then-home of Harlem in 2006 with Thomas Bartlett; followed by "All Is Well" in 2008 and "I See The Sign" in 2010, both recorded in Iceland with producer Valgeir Sigurðsson.
Sam sings, plays banjo and guitar and fiddle, draws comics and makes little video-stories, and can type at 120 words per minute. He's typing this bio right now, virtually at the speed of thought. Later, somebody will edit it.
Sam started on fiddle at the age of three and by eleven had formed a band called Popcorn Behavior, with childhood friend Thomas Bartlett and younger brother Stefan, to play New England fiddle tunes. They toured internationally, gathering attention from NPR, CNN and The Boston Globe and releasing five albums by the time they graduated from pretend high school which they did not really go to (at the time it was called "homeschooling"). His first solo album, released in 2001, was a collection of traditional Irish fiddle tunes, simply titled "Solo Fiddle."
By 17, Sam had taken up the banjo and fallen in love with free jazz, Miles Davis, early indie rock, drone minimalism, mountain ballads and Buster Keaton films. But it wasn't until he moved to New York City in 2002 that he began to play and experience first-hand all of these other kinds of things. Since then he has collaborated with a myriad of artists including Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.
Sam's folksong albums have received wide acclaim and have pulled many a soul back from the brink... his itinerant wanderings have taken him to far-off lands... and his solo performances have taken on a life and tenor of their own. Sam's drawn comics and enigmatic home-made videos, the "self-inflicted field recordings" resulting from these internal and external journeys, have resulted in exhibitions at the Tony Shafrazi and Audio Visual Arts galleries in New York City, and the Gallery Kuhturm in Leipzig. His audio-visual show/comics lecture "Home Alone Inside My Head" was premiered at NYC's The Kitchen in November 2010.
Sam, currently London-based, is finishing work on a new album. After reading a bunch of Henry James, Sam is now hard at work writing his own "pretend novel," called King Speechy, to be released by Penguin Classics in 2051 u feel me.
Sam Amidon on Myspace
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Sam sings, plays banjo and guitar and fiddle, draws comics and makes little video-stories, and can type at 120 words per minute. He's typing this bio right now, virtually at the speed of thought. Later, somebody will edit it.
Sam started on fiddle at the age of three and by eleven had formed a band called Popcorn Behavior, with childhood friend Thomas Bartlett and younger brother Stefan, to play New England fiddle tunes. They toured internationally, gathering attention from NPR, CNN and The Boston Globe and releasing five albums by the time they graduated from pretend high school which they did not really go to (at the time it was called "homeschooling"). His first solo album, released in 2001, was a collection of traditional Irish fiddle tunes, simply titled "Solo Fiddle."
By 17, Sam had taken up the banjo and fallen in love with free jazz, Miles Davis, early indie rock, drone minimalism, mountain ballads and Buster Keaton films. But it wasn't until he moved to New York City in 2002 that he began to play and experience first-hand all of these other kinds of things. Since then he has collaborated with a myriad of artists including Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.
Sam's folksong albums have received wide acclaim and have pulled many a soul back from the brink... his itinerant wanderings have taken him to far-off lands... and his solo performances have taken on a life and tenor of their own. Sam's drawn comics and enigmatic home-made videos, the "self-inflicted field recordings" resulting from these internal and external journeys, have resulted in exhibitions at the Tony Shafrazi and Audio Visual Arts galleries in New York City, and the Gallery Kuhturm in Leipzig. His audio-visual show/comics lecture "Home Alone Inside My Head" was premiered at NYC's The Kitchen in November 2010.
Sam, currently London-based, is finishing work on a new album. After reading a bunch of Henry James, Sam is now hard at work writing his own "pretend novel," called King Speechy, to be released by Penguin Classics in 2051 u feel me.
Sam Amidon on Myspace
Calendar
Wed., March 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Description
A new collaboration from iconoclastic guitarist Frisell and "slightly cracked folksinger extraordinare" (Village Voice) Amidon, two artists who have created their own musical worlds from various corners of American folk musics.
Bill Frisell:
"It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell." - The New York Times
"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians - like Miles Davis and few others, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sam Amidon:
"Amidon has one of the most inviting voices around today...In bridging the very old and the very new on a handful of albums and collaborations, he has managed to meld the rural and the urban, the organic and the synthetic, the oral tradition and the written score." -Pitchfork
"In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing." -Rolling Stone
$25 student ticket available at the door
Photos of Bill & Sam taken by Monica Frisell
This is a general admission event. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. There is a two item minimum per person at all tables. Standing room is also available. We recommend arriving early.
LPR offers a membership program that guarantees members seating for future shows. Click here for more info.
Bill Frisell:
"It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell." - The New York Times
"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians - like Miles Davis and few others, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sam Amidon:
"Amidon has one of the most inviting voices around today...In bridging the very old and the very new on a handful of albums and collaborations, he has managed to meld the rural and the urban, the organic and the synthetic, the oral tradition and the written score." -Pitchfork
"In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing." -Rolling Stone
$25 student ticket available at the door
Photos of Bill & Sam taken by Monica Frisell
This is a general admission event. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. There is a two item minimum per person at all tables. Standing room is also available. We recommend arriving early.
LPR offers a membership program that guarantees members seating for future shows. Click here for more info.
Artists
Wed., March 21, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Description
A new collaboration from iconoclastic guitarist Frisell and "slightly cracked folksinger extraordinare" (Village Voice) Amidon, two artists who have created their own musical worlds from various corners of American folk musics.
Bill Frisell:
"It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell." - The New York Times
"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians - like Miles Davis and few others, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sam Amidon:
"Amidon has one of the most inviting voices around today...In bridging the very old and the very new on a handful of albums and collaborations, he has managed to meld the rural and the urban, the organic and the synthetic, the oral tradition and the written score." -Pitchfork
"In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing." -Rolling Stone
$25 student ticket available at the door
Photos of Bill & Sam taken by Monica Frisell
This is a general admission event. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. There is a two item minimum per person at all tables. Standing room is also available. We recommend arriving early.
LPR offers a membership program that guarantees members seating for future shows. Click here for more info.
Bill Frisell:
"It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell." - The New York Times
"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians - like Miles Davis and few others, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sam Amidon:
"Amidon has one of the most inviting voices around today...In bridging the very old and the very new on a handful of albums and collaborations, he has managed to meld the rural and the urban, the organic and the synthetic, the oral tradition and the written score." -Pitchfork
"In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing." -Rolling Stone
$25 student ticket available at the door
Photos of Bill & Sam taken by Monica Frisell
This is a general admission event. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first seated basis. There is a two item minimum per person at all tables. Standing room is also available. We recommend arriving early.
LPR offers a membership program that guarantees members seating for future shows. Click here for more info.
Artists