Please join us for “Double Bill” a unique live event featuring renowned composer/guitarist Bill Frisell and filmmaker Bill Morrison as they present an evening of live musical experimentation and improvisation with visual sources including short films, newsreels, loops, and cat cam videos.
Wednesday, June 26th, 7 PM, Jamesport Meeting House, 1590 Main Road, Jamesport, NY. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Go to Eventbrite for Tickets.
About the artists:
Bill Frisell’s career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, whose catalog has been cited by Downbeat as “the best recorded output of the decade.” In recent years, Frisell has forged a distinctive and fruitful collaboration with the Blue Note label, releasing HARMONY, Valentine and FOUR to great acclaim.
“Frisell has had a lot of practice putting high concept into a humble package. Long hailed as one of the most distinctive and original improvising guitarists of our time, he has also earned a reputation for teasing out thematic connections with his music… There’s a reason that Jazz at Lincoln Center had him program a series called Roots of Americana.” – New York Times
Bill Morrison has been called “the poet laureate of lost films” (New York Times, 9/21/2021), as he often makes films that reframe long-forgotten or discarded moving images. He has premiered feature-length documentary films at the New York, Sundance, Telluride and Venice film festivals. He is best known for the found footage opus Decasia (2002), and for the historic
doc Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016). His most recent film, Incident (2023), was awarded the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Documentary Film Award of 2023, as well as top short doc honors this year at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024, and the Florida Film Festival 2024.
As a theatrical projection designer, Morrison has continuously designed film and video to accompany large scale theatrical and music performance for over 30 different productions since 1990. For over 35 years he has consistently worked with some of the greatest composers and musical performers of our time. His design work in live performance has been recognized with two Obie awards (1993 & 2003), and a Bessie Award for theatrical design (2001).
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