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11/11 Tuesday
7:00 PM Andrei Matorin
The Boston Globe calls Brazilian-born Andrei Matorin an "emerging jazz violinist" and featured the Andrei Matorin Quartet in their Picks-of-the-Week column earlier this year next to the likes of jazz greats such as Bill Charlap, Jim Hobbs, and John Patitucci. As a composer, Andrei’s music seamlessly blends the harmonic and rhythmic intensity of jazz with the emotion and sensitivity of classical music while always alluding to the soaring melodies of his native Brazil. As a student at Berklee College of Music, he has been honored with Berklee's Achievement Award on two separate occasions.
Andrei Matorin is also an alumnus of Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead 2008 Program at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, an exclusive program that "identifies outstanding, emerging jazz artists in their mid-teens and twenties" from an international pool of applicants. Look out for his debut album available February 2009.
For more information please visit: http://www.andreimatorin.com/
10:00 PM Around the World on 80 Quid
a mixture of Story Telling and Traditional Music
Midway through his Australasian tour, Aindrias de Staic is already winning accolades and dividing the critics with his new theatre show “Around the World on 80 Quid”
Winner Best Solo Show at New Zealand Fringe
Its that time of year again when Irish performers are traveling all over the world to entertain the drunken masses for St Patrick’s and Paddy month. Music, dance, theatre, cabaret and comedy and any art form of an Irish flavor will be tinged green and soaked in Guinness Export by the middle of next week.
Adelaide South Australia, the festival city of Australia hosts many festivals including Womad, which will enjoy Martin Hayes east Clare fiddler. Meanwhile at Adleiade Fringe Camille O Sullivan form Dublin performs her own brand of caberet..
But one young Irish performer, who wont be drowning the shamrock, despite his many causes for celebration, is Aindrias de Staic. This young Galway man, is opening doors and turning heads with his self penned theatre show "Around the World on 80 quid"
First written as a film script in 2006, Aindrias returned to Galway to enjoy the success of his short film malarkey. The show was initially performed as a literary event, with the author himself reading the stories of his travelogue. Casual shows at kiltimagh, tuam's mall theatre ensued. But hen August 2007, Around the OWrld on 80 Quid, the journey of a traveling fiddle player by Aindrias de Staic wins the.Sweet Award at Edinburgh Fringe 07.
Next a sell otu at Melborne Fringe, generating rave views which prompted Melbourne journo Kate Herbert to claim, "de Staic is a very seductive performer, and knows it". Now in Adelaide the reviews are even hotter, with a 4 star rating form Louise Nunn the Adelaide Advertisers theater reviewer exclaiming the show has Blarney with Flashes of Brilliance", while local street-press,The Fix magazine says "this is a great show - catch it"
But the most recent accolade comes from Wellington, NZ where Aindrias performed the Show 3 weeks ago for the opening week of New Zealand Fringe, and at the awards night last Sunday Around the World on 80 quid win Best Solo SHOW!
Wicked wit, sharp writing, tall tales and short stories with energetic essence are the core secret to the success of the show, matched with honeycombed violin performance that packs a punchy blow. rarely have music and wit been so intricately entwined than here in this unique performance.
But as march 17 approaches and all things are Irish are celebrated, this story is actually the anti-thesis of celtique cliché and paddy-whackery. The journey follows a young iris fiddle player as he wrestles with a ferocious drink problem, trying to avoid Irish pubs and mischief as falls constantly into despair and fiddles his way out of trouble.
The show continues to sell out in Adelaide before going to Melbourne, then returning to NZ Dunedin fringe. The west of Ireland awaits the return of this enigmatic performer.