Grammy Award winner Bill Frisell brings 'Disfarmer Project' to Purdue
Greg Leisz, lap steel guitar; Jenny Scheinman, violin, Bill Frisell, guitar; and Viktor Krauss, bass.
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN - Purdue Convocations will present Musical Portraits From Heber Springs: Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project at Purdue University’s Loeb Playhouse at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 18.
This performance includes a pre-show discussion led by Don Seybold, jazz expert and former associate director of Convocations, and Catherine Dossin, art historian at Purdue. Seybold and Dossin will explore Frisell's current musical adventure and the photos that inspired him. The talk will take place at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 in Stewart Center, Room 206.
The performance also will feature a display of Mike Disfarmer’s photos in the lobby of Loeb Playhouse. The photo display is made possible by the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City.
Grammy award-winning jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has collaborated with artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Bono, T-Bone Burnett, Paul Simon, Brian Eno, Ry Cooder, and many more - a testament to both his virtuosity and stylistic flexibility. This project and its companion album, Disfarmer, finds Frisell and his all-star band mining Americana, bluegrass, country, and roots music in response to photographer Mike Disfarmer's remarkable portraits from the Great Depression. Frisell’s band features , bass; Greg Leisz, lap steel guitar; & Jenny Scheinman, violin.
Disfarmer captured images of his fellow Heber Springs, Ark., townspeople during the 1940s and '50s in stark, insightful black-and-white portraits. These now-iconic images serve as a window on this period in American history, and Frisell has sensitively captured the tenor of the times in a heartfelt multimedia production.
"Frisell's filmic themes summon up the ghosts of a lost America. The results are gently beautiful." - The New York Times
Tickets are $25 for adults and $19 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices at 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW. Tickets also are available through Ticketmaster outlets. Discounted tickets for groups of 10 or more can be ordered at 765-496-1977.
Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations is among the oldest collegiate professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 20 to 30 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theatre, dance, children's theatre, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media.
Source: Abby Eddy, (765) 494-5045, aeeddy@purdue.edu