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Art Terry and the Black Bohemians: The Self Isolation Songbook
Fri 17 Feb 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
£7 – £10
For access bookings, please contact the venue directly.
Los Angeles-born musician Art Terry recorded a song a day for 52 days during lockdown; his partner Helena Smith created an accompanying video each day, which she edited into the Self Isolation Songbook short film. The film harnesses philosophy, anxiety, playfulness, nostalgia and hope to reflect the times we are in. It was selected by Doc’n Roll to screen at Gilles Peterson’s We Out Here festival in 2021.
Now Art Terry is bringing the Self Isolation Songbook to Scotland, with an event at Summerhall. Following the screening there will be a live performance. Art and his improbably big and talented band, The Black Bohemians, will expand on the songs, with a gospel choir and brass as well as keyboard, viola, drums, upright bass and theremin.
You ain’t heard nothing like The Black Bohemians. Gospel glam meets orchestrated hauntological funk: get ready to dance.
Doors: 19:30
"Los Angeles-born Art Terry simply tells it like he sees it, a folksy counsellor who comes on with style"Brian Morton, The Wire
"Terrific"New York Times
"Brings the questioning quirky funk of Sly Stone together with the provocative poetry of pathfinder Lou Reed"Resonance FM