Duke Coffeehouse

In place of an admission fee, were highlighting three local organizations that we encourage viewers to donate to (suggested donation $15): ~ NorthStar Church of the Arts Durham Artist Relief Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/durham-artist-relief-fund ~ Durham Arts Councils Arts Recovery Fund: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=pqYAAw Josephine Foster... is a North American singer-songwriter from Colorado. She is known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smiths old weird America. Her songs are rooted in early American folk-blues as well as classical art song and Tin Pan Alley. 1967 saw the release of a solo record titled Faithful Fairy Harmony (Fire records), a double LP of eighteen new songs thematically uniting transcendental threads she explored in her work over the previous decades. Accompanying herself Foster layered vocal harmonies above her guitar, piano, autoharp, pedal harp, and organ. Several collaborators joined her in Andrija Tokics Nashville studio once more to flesh out further orchestrations: Victor Herrero (guitars), Gya Valtsdóttir (cello), Chris Scruggs (pedal steel), Jon Estes (bass), and musical cameos by Shahzad Ismaily, as well as Chris Davis, Peggy Snow and John Allingham of the band The Cherry Blossoms. This sonic collaboration between composers Marielle Jakobsons (Fender Rhodes, organ, voice, synthesizers) and Chuck Johnson (pedal steel guitar and treatments) is as expressive as it is enigmatic. On their debut album, The Ground Our Sky, a kind of new ambient Americana is unearthed and explored. The respectively singular artistry of Jakobsons (who previously cofounded the beguiling Date Palms) and Johnson collectively craft a universe of remarkable resonance. It is a vibrant, seemingly infinite sway of sounds that exists unmoored in time and space. Loamlands is a distorted country music outfit that places queer storytelling at the forefront of their music. they intimately grapple with identity by playing with genre and history, twisting tales ...Read More