The Lamplighter Sessions
- Folk
- Guitar
- Singer/Songwriter
Thu 10/26, 8pm Tag-team duos w/ Rose Polenzani, Lyle Brewer, Barry Rothman, Dinty Child, and mystery guest TBA.Fri 10/27, 8pm In-the-round with Pamela Means & Zak TrojanoSat 10/28, 7pm Peter, Paul & Barry play the music of Tom WaitsSun 10/29, 10am-2pm Lamplighter brunch featuring Radi0swan (unticketed)Sun 10/29, 7pm Staged reading of Eugene Ionesco’s RhinocerosMon 10/30, 8pm Peter Mulvey & Carol Noonan, w/ Duke Levine & Kevin Barry on guitarTue 10/31, 8pm Hallowe’en Shindig w/ Thank God For Science & Tim Gearan
Peter Mulvey has been transported by music suspiciously often in his life, and from the beginning, he sensed a pattern: most of these moments were impromptu, they happened offstage, and they involved people communicating something sublime in this elusive yet utterly reliable language we all share. The music-ness of moments is at its best when two or more players don’t quite know where it’s all going, and yet have enough of a common idea of the map at hand that they’re all going together.
The Lamplighter Sessions is Mulvey’s dogged attempt to set up, year after year, lightning rods in a field, to coax these offstage moments into being onstage. It’s Mulvey’s favorite thing he does all year, and this is coming from a guy who tours Ireland and Alaska, who plays concerts in a cave underneath West Virginia, and who tours by bike in the autumn. The Lamplighter sessions is a chance for him to give back to all the great musicians he has met, and all the great audiences he has been lucky enough to assemble.
