Café Molly

Zebulon

Café Molly w/PARTCH Ensemble featuring John Schneider and TJ Troy, Dj Isabella

Come gather ‘round for the show of the season! Café Molly is back at Zebulon with another evening that’ll soothe your ears, tickle your skin, and poke your third eye. Bandleader and whistler extraordinare Molly Lewis will be your hostess for the evening, guiding you on a journey that begins in Frogtown and leaves you in the ethereal realm of the unknown. Every captain needs a good crew, so she’ll be accompanied by Benji Lysaght, Drew Erickson, JP Maramba, Henry Kwapis and Logan Hone.They will take you from simmering Bossa Nova sounds by Antonio Carlos Jobim to show-stopping scorchers by Alessandro Alesandroni with plenty of pit stops along the way. You haven’t heard anything like it. Lewis’ beautiful whistle serves as your North Star… and you’ll be starry-eyed by evening’s end! (Words by Jack Levinson. )Also our opener will be PARTCH Ensemble featuring John Schneider and TJ TroyPARTCH is the GRAMMY® AWARD winning ensemble that specializes in the music &amp; instruments of the iconoclastic American Maverick composer Harry Partch who, between 1930 and 1972, created one of the most amazing bodies of sensually alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century. Partch wrote music drama, dance theater, multi-media extravaganzas, vocal music and chamber music—all to be performed on the extraordinary orchestra of instruments that he designed and built himself.<a href="http://www.johnschneider.la" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">John Schneider</a>John Schneider is the Grammy winning guitarist, composer, author, and broadcaster whose weekly television and radio programs have brought the sound of the guitar into millions of homes. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Music from University College Cardiff (U.K.), music degrees from the University of California, the Royal College of Music (London), and is President Emeritus of the Guitar Foundation of America. A specialist in contemporary music, Schneider’s The Contemporary Guitar has become the standard text in the field. Called “A delight” by the New York Times and a “Microtonalist maven” by the Wall Street Journal, Fanfare declared, “Schneider creates elegant dynamic levels and layers on his solo guitar, and he always projects the poetry of the music.” He has performed in Europe, Japan, Vietnam, China, throughout North America, and been featured by New Music America, the DaCamera Society, Southwest Chamber Music, New American Music Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Other Minds, and the BBC. He is the founding artistic director of MicroFest, PARTCH, MicroFest Records, and can be heard weekly on Pacifica Radio’s The Global Village (www.kpfk.org). His recordings can be found on Bridge, Cambria, Etcetera, Innova, MicroFest, Mode, New Albion, and Pitch record labels. (www.JohnSchneider.LA).T.J. TroyGrammy® Award-winning artist T.J. Troy combines an eclectic knowledge of percussion from around the world with his innate musicality to create a distinct and powerful voice in the world of contemporary percussion. He has appeared at some of the most prestigious music festivals worldwide, including South by Southwest (SXSW), National Folk Festival, Sounds of Arabia Festival, the Arab Music Conference, Jerash Festival of Arts, and the Territoria Festival. For 16 years, he was Principal Percussionist for Arabic orchestra MESTO, performing throughout the Middle East; he has appeared with such artists as Pete Townshend, Billy Idol, Alfie Boe, Ustad Aashish Khan, Ken Zuckerman, Mamak Khadem, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Sahba Motallebi, Emil Richards, and Cirque du Soleil. T.J. was a featured performer/clinician at PASIC 2016, and is a regular guest at the Seattle World Rhythm Festival, as well as presenting workshops and masterclasses throughout the United States, Oman, and China. His genre-breaking ensemble Run Downhill combines worlds of music, graphic novel art and narrative, and mixed-media live performance. He has released 5 albums of music, 4 comic books, and hours of interactive motion comic music video. His revolutionary work "SPURS #1" was selected for competition at the 2015 Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival. He was awarded the Gaia Award from the Moondance International Film Festival for his score to Den and Nikka Serras’ Seven Swans in 2005.

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