Saturday, September 14, 7:30 Show (7 door): The Crooked Jades, San Francisco Originals: Re-imagining “Old-Time” Music for Today’s Listeners, 30th Anniversary Tour
Tickets $25 Now On Sale; drop by the store, or call 541-345-8986 to reserve; or click this link to order from our web store.
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Band
The Crooked Jades are creators of unique sounds by exploring the roots of rural Americana, pushing boundaries and blurring categories with their fiery, soulful performances. Innovative, unpredictable and passionate, they bring their driving dance tunes and haunting ballads to rock clubs, festivals, traditional folk venues and concert halls across America and Europe.
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Known for their rare and obscure repertoire, beautiful original compositions, inspired arrangements and eclectic, often vintage instrumentation, The Crooked Jades began with band leader/founder Jeff Kazor's vision to revive the dark and hypnotic sounds of pre-radio music. With this old-time foundation, the band has created the unique Crooked Jades sound by exploring the roots of Americana and interweaving the diverse musical influences of Europe and Africa. Filtering these old-world sounds with universal and ancient themes through a post-9/11 lens, they seek to make sense of the future.
A collective of West and East Coast pickers with equal parts attitude and respect, always led by Kazor, the band performs with a thrilling energy that has audiences on their feet dancing and critics comparing them to everyone from The New Lost City Ramblers and The Pogues to Gillian Welch, Nick Cave and Tom Waits.
The Crooked Jades core consists of founders Jeff Kazor (vocals/guitar/ukulele) and Lisa Berman (vocals/slide guitar/banjo/harmonium), with long-time member Erik Pearson (vocals/banjos/ukulele/harmonium/slide guitar,) composer of the Crooked Jades tune selected by Sean Penn in his 2007 film “Into The Wild”. An important former member who has recently rejoined is Megan Adie (bass), back in San Francisco after a decade of living and playing 17th and 18th century double bass in Europe (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concerto Copenhagen, and La Chambre Philharmonique; Copenhagen Phil and Malmö Opera; and various chamber groups in Denmark and southern Sweden.) A key member of the Crooked Jades evolution, touring and recording with the Jades for several years, Megan’s iconic (arco) bass can be heard on the band’s acclaimed album “Worlds on Fire.” The newest member of the Jades is Emily Mann, a young up-and-coming fiddler in demand, who is also half of the folk duo Paper Wings. Emily is a Big Sur native with her heart in the old Appalachian mountains, and she fits into the Jades musical jigsaw seamlessly.
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PRAISE FOR THE CROOKED JADES
"The Crooked Jades are a force of nature. Provocative, seductive, alluring, and almost unbelievable, their repertoire sits deeply in old-time American tradition while bringing the music
solidly into the global 21st century. This is sepia tones, bent angles, unexpected accents, unanticipated sounds…the antique and the modern.” Sing Out
**** “Few could make an album as striking as this…the highlights are the originals.” - Sylvie Simmons, Mojo Magazine, reviewing “Empathy Moves The Water”
"True to form, The Crooked Jades are alive and thriving and they just may have produced one of the best Americana albums of 2019" - FOLKWorks, reviewing “Empathy Moves The Water”
Writes Bluegrass Unlimited, “Chords in unexpected places, out of this world harmonies, and some of the most powerfully-arranged material I’ve ever encountered.”
“This San Francisco quintet keeps true to their old-time string band heart, yet in subtle, weird ways, they exaggerate the slightly-crazed aura of the rural pre-radio era music. It makes for a haunting, sophisticated trip to Appalachia. Mixing originals and traditional songs flawlessly, this might be the finest band to come out of the string-band resurgence.” - Boston Herald
“The two adjectives that keep coming to me during repeated listenings to The Crooked Jades are profound and transcendent. This is visionary music, forged from the raw PRAISE FOR THE CROOKED JADES
"The Crooked Jades are a force of nature. Provocative, seductive, alluring, and almost unbelievable, their repertoire sits deeply in old-time American tradition while bringing the music
solidly into the global 21st century. This is sepia tones, bent angles, unexpected accents, unanticipated sounds…the antique and the modern.” Sing Out
**** “Few could make an album as striking as this…the highlights are the originals.” - Sylvie Simmons, Mojo Magazine, reviewing “Empathy Moves The Water”
"True to form, The Crooked Jades are alive and thriving and they just may have produced one of the best Americana albums of 2019" - FOLKWorks, reviewing “Empathy Moves The Water”
Writes Bluegrass Unlimited, “Chords in unexpected places, out of this world harmonies, and some of the most powerfully-arranged material I’ve ever encountered.”
“This San Francisco quintet keeps true to their old-time string band heart, yet in subtle, weird ways, they exaggerate the slightly-crazed aura of the rural pre-radio era music. It makes for a haunting, sophisticated trip to Appalachia. Mixing originals and traditional songs flawlessly, this might be the finest band to come out of the string-band resurgence.” - Boston Herald
“The two adjectives that keep coming to me during repeated listenings to The Crooked Jades are profound and transcendent. This is visionary music, forged from the raw materials of old-time forms and instruments. It’s easy to forget that the first old-time music recorded was a mirror of the times the musicians lived in. That was almost 100 years ago. Here, in the beginning of the 21st century, people in appreciable numbers are feeling as though they're teetering on the brink of apocalyptic times. Through the lens of tradition, The Crooked Jades are voicing this feeling convincingly and beautifully.” - The Old-Time Herald
LINKS
website: http://www.crookedjades.com
photos for press: http://crookedjades.com/press
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crookedjades
videos: https://crookedjades.com/videos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crookedjades/