Hi Folks!,
The bitter cold forced us to cancel Night Tree's show in January, but but we are so excited to have them with us September 1st in the balmy waning of summer!
Please join us for the special concert!
Though each member of Night Tree originates from a different musical world, the six members have come together to a create a new sound that is unique to their instrumentation and musical voice, both attracting and bewildering enthusiastic crowds while connecting folk music lovers, café radio junkies, jazz enthusiasts, free-improvisers, and beyond.
These six conservatory-trained musicians have absorbed genres from across the globe. Night Tree is unique, not only for its abnormal instrumentation of two fiddles, cello, accordion, saxophone, percussion, and the occasional viola and mandolin, but for their collective representation and incorporation of traditions from Irish, Classical, Swedish, Jazz, Klezmer, and Afro-Cuban music. Each artist's personality is given a spot to emerge with fiery improvisation, individual compositions, and a pristine ear. The band thrives on playing in darkness as to allow themselves the opportunity to solely listen with the absence of any possible visual distractions. They react to each other at any given time, in a matter of seconds. They have learned to get inside each other's musical minds, creating one blossoming and unpredictable wave of sound that is Night Tree.
"I'm thrilled to have been part of this brilliant young band's debut album. They play with such spark and musicality. Thoughtful compositions, precise, inventive arrangements. An absolute joy. Go hear them!" -Séamus Egan, founding member of SOLAS and Night Tree producer
"Night Tree brings shockingly new idioms to the time burnished language and form of irish/celtic world music, at once honoring the the traditions and pushing their boundaries with infusions of fresh sound from parallel universes. Notes and rhythms of classical, klezmer, jazz from the world over are like fresh oxygen blown onto hot coal. It was a firestorm. What made your first performance so incredible? It was the first concert of the day! Usually the festival heats up to a roiling boil around 4/5 pm, and everyone gets fortified over dinner and drink before diving into the "mosh-pit" of night time revelry. But this year, you burned down the house at noon! I have never seen anything like it. . . like having Bruce Springsteen open for a local band at a high school dance.So . . . thank you for what you brought up the road from Boston, my home town, to Vermont this Labor Day."
– Bob Eddy, The Herald Times, about Night Tree's show at the main stage of New World Festival, Vermont
This month's refreshment sales will benefit an Addison County farm family in need.
Open mic starts at 7:30- To sign up for one of the four 12 minute open mic slots,
call 388-9782.
The featured artist set begins between 8:30 and 9:00 pm
Our doors open at 7:00. There are no advance ticket sales.
$10 general
$15 generous
$3 kids 12 and under
For more information call 388-9782 or visit http://rcch.org/
To sign up for an open mic slot, please call 388-9782 or email andreachesman@gmail.com
Plan your arrival time accordingly. It's good to arrive early for the best seating!
Thanks, hope to see you there!
The Ripton Community Coffee House.
1305 Vermont Route 125
Information-802-388-9782 or
http://rcch.org
Upcoming concerts:
Sat. Oct 6th Eli West and Ben Winship
Sat. Nov.3rd- Rescheduled show with Dana & Susan Robinson
Sat. Dec 1st Amy Rigby
Oct 19, 2024, 1 to 4:30 PM
Oct 20 Rec Hub Grand Opening/Rec Dist. 30th Anniversary!Oct 20, 2024, 12 PM
Free Introduction to Real DialogueOct 20, 2024, 4 to 6 PM