Opening THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012

Message & Medium will be up through March 12, 2012.

Featured artists:  Madeleine Barnes, Nicole Donnelly, Kevin Durkin, Allan Espiritu, Lori Evensen, Colette Gaiter, Zofia Hausman, Sherman Hayman, Gaby Heit, Katie Dillon Low, David Macomber, Kari Marton-Rollins, Jon Montenegro, Catherine Rahman, Paula Searing, Yvonne Valenza, Jonathan Weary, Jessica Williams and Matt Zigler.

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FRIDAY MARCH 2, 2012

Cape Wrath’s “Inherit The Earth” Release Show

Cape Wrath moves the ancestral stories of the Norse and Sami into a ballad song cycle.  Predominantly, a mixed media project from Jamie Glisson, themes of war, women’s work, hope and loss permeate a soundscape achieved through acoustic instrumentation and a singing style that evokes the space, that culls a shape of the sacred.  Jamie is joined by Joshua Cullen on upright bass and Stephen Landis on violin.

Inherit the Earth is the debut record and film based on the lives of Jamie’s maternal grandparents, who traversed from Norway to New York and back again.  Hardship, sacrifice, longing and growth weave through the twelve movements and film stock of reel-to-reel family footage spliced with Jamie’s own film work.  Facebook.  Bandcamp.  Vimeo.  Official site.

Opening act: Chauchat (Lancaster, PA) – Chauchat emerged from the pomp and decadence that characterized Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s.  While the aristocracy experimented with new musical forms, the rabble was driven by folk violence and a thirst for alcohol.  In an attempt to reconcile these increasingly hostile class tensions, Lancaster officials demanded that each group send a musical representative to attend songwriting classes at the local university.  Official site.