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15

Rasputina Rasputina

with Eliza Rickman & Aubreylyn

Thu December 15th, 2016

8:00PM

Main Space

Minimum Age: 18+

Doors Open: 7:00PM

Show Time: 8:00PM

Event Ticket: $15

Day of Show: $18

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This is a general admission, standing event.

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Rasputina

Rasputina official site | Rasputina on Facebook | Rasputina on Twitter
 
Pioneers in the use of cello as the sole instrument within a rock band, Rasputina has been inspiring young string players to commit a number of musical sins since 1896. The group’s concept was written as a manifesto, and manifested accordingly by directress Melora Creager as a wily subterfuge for a plot to open audiences to adventure. The funny, the sad, the heavy, the tender– it can all exist together.
 
Employing elaborate costuming spanning a number of historical periods, Rasputina brings marginalized historical female figures and stories to light in the pop form, using archetypal characters such as Indian princesses, Hawaiian handmaidens and Medieval queens.
 
Over the years, Rasputina has performed/recorded with Marilyn Manson, Porno For Pyros, Cheap Trick, Goo Goo Dolls and many others. Hardened road-dogs, and with more than 7 albums under their belt, Rasputina continues to amaze and amuse.
 
MELORA CREAGER – voice, cello, banjo
 
She founded the alternative/ historical cello ensemble Rasputina in 1891 as a way to meet like-minded girls- girls that wanted to rock out on the cello and wear fine costumery. She played in Nirvana on their final tour, Europe 1894.
 
LUIS MOJICA– piano, beat-boxing
 
Luis uses the piano to cast, wild narrative spells. His eyes are that of an androgynous monk with rainbow tentacles. Luis loops words, chants, and sounds through a loop pedal AKA beat- boxing, ‘Beat-Boxing Baroque’. Luis brings his musical madness to Rasputina today.
 
CARPELLA PARVO– cello, voice
 
Cello-fingers in flight and with the voice of a bird, Carpella is from some country, but it is unknown which one. She played on Rasputina’s debut album, Thanks for the Ether (1996), then succumbed to the very condition from which she takes her name- carpal tunnel syndrome. Having healed over 20 years, Carpella jubilantly returns to Rasputina in the 21st century.

Eliza Rickman

Eliza Rickman official site | Eliza Rickman on Facebook | Eliza Rickman on Twitter | Eliza Rickman on Instagram | Eliza Rickman on Bandcamp |
Eliza Rickman on Youtube
 
There is always a hint of menace and reservoirs of force haunting the corners of Eliza Rickman’s voice, whatever register it occupies. Her presence on stage- whether she wears flowers in her hair, or stuffed birds; whether she plays a toy piano or a grand piano- is an enveloping, soft darkness, impossible to ignore. It has been three years between Rickman’s first album, O, You Sinners, and her newest effort, Footnotes for the Spring. In those intervening three years, Rickman added the autoharp to her repertoire, fought illness and heartbreak (and won), and turned 30. But mostly, she toured. She is a frequent featured musical act for the live rendition of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, she joined the band Rasputina for a handful of dates, and she organized her own successful solo European tour.
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During those three years, Rickman’s vocal delivery has also developed a new breathlessness. She wrote all the string arrangements on her debut. But friend Jason Webley produced and orchestrated Footnotes. Here, Rickman’s voice casts its shadow against Webley’s shimmering strings and a Phil Spector style wall of sound, flecked with melancholy and nostalgia. This clutch of songs comprises, among others, “Lark of my Heart”, written to commemorate the wedding day of Margaret Rucker, an unknown poet whose scrapbook was found in a dumpster many years after her death; “Now and Then”, whose opening lines encapsulate the juxtaposition at the heart of the album- “Oh, to be young again/blood is on my hands” – and “Wax Nostalgic”, whose title speaks for itself. But this is nostalgia without sentimentality. Rickman’s voice has the power to hold the smallest grain of sadness, an intimation that the longed-for innocence depicted in her lyrics has slipped just below the glow of the orchestra and out of sight.

Aubreylyn

Aubreylyn official site | Aubreylyn on Twitter
 
Aubreylyn, an eighteen-year- old singer/songwriter from Bucks County, PA, is a multi-lingual artist who blends elements of early French-cabaret- style music with contemporary pop sensibilities and her signature powerhouse vocals. Backed by her talented three-piece string section, Aubreylyn has performed at several notable venues including the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, PA and the Bitter End in New York City. She’s also opened for noteworthy artists such as Collabro (winners of Britain’s Got Talent in 2014) and Patti Larkin.  
 
She is currently writing and recording with Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum engineer and producer David Ivory (Halestorm, Silvertide, The Roots) and resides in Montreal while she attends McGill University.
 

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