Matt Skellenger/Matt Reid With Perpetual Motion

The Matt Skellenger/Matt Reid Duo with Perpetual Motion The Matt Skellenger/Matt Reid Duo joins forces with Perpetual Motion for an evening of instrumental music that moves freely between jazz, world music, acoustic fusion, groove, and improvisation on Friday, Sept. 18 at Swallow Hill Music. The show starts at 8:00 pm. Tickets are available at https://swallowhillmusic.org/events/MattSkellengerDuoandPerpetualMotion/ The Matt Skellenger/Matt Reid Duo brings a different sonic palette to the evening. Bassist Matt Skellenger and trumpeter Matt Reid combine jazz, fusion, funk, world music, electronic textures, and live looping. Their music can move from deep grooves to spacious, exploratory passages, with the two musicians building a surprisingly expansive sound from just bass, trumpet, effects, and loops. Josie Quick (violin) and Tom Carleno (guitar) have been performing together as Perpetual Motion for more than two decades. Their music combines the intimacy of a violin-and-guitar duo with an expansive musical vocabulary shaped by jazz, folk, world music, and contemporary instrumental music. Their performances feature intricate arrangements, rhythmic interplay, improvisation, and plenty of room for the unexpected. The duo recently released their eighth studio album, Go With The Flow, their first new album in seven years. Although the two duos approach their music from very different directions, they share a love of improvisation and the possibilities of the duo format. Both create music through close musical interaction, allowing compositions to breathe and evolve in performance. The concert will also mark the debut of a very personal new instrument for Quick: a violin made by Denver-area luthier Eric Trujillo of Mi Vida Strings. The wood has an unusual story. A large silver maple that stood in Quick’s front yard for years was struck by lightning and eventually died. Rather than letting the tree disappear, Quick had Trujillo transform some of its wood into a violin. Trujillo named the instrument the “Fire Tree” violin, a reference to the lightning strike that began its journey from living tree to musical instrument. Quick plans to play the violin during the Swallow Hill performance, giving the concert another connection between music, nature, and transformation. “It’s pretty amazing to think that this tree that was part of my everyday life is now going to have a new life as an instrument,” says Quick. “I’m really looking forward to hearing what it has to say.” Come hear two distinctive Denver instrumental duos share the stage at Swallow Hill for an evening of music that crosses boundaries.

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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3791784-0

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