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Gary Lucas presents "I Cover the Waterfront" - a solo acoustic guitar concert spanning his entire career and featuring originals, country blues, arrangements of everything from 30's Chinese pop, Jewish music, Wagner, Dvorak, Leroy Shields, Henry Mancini and much more. Guest starring trombonist Jim Staley

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Guitarist extraordinaire/ Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer Gary Lucas has been called "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" (The New Yorker) and "one of the best and most original guitarists in America". He's released over 20 acclaimed albums in multiple genres and tours the word relentlessly solo and with a variety of ensembles. He;s played and collaborated with everyone from Leonard Bernstein, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, John Zorn, Noel Gallagher, Future Sound of London, Lou Reed and a host of others. A soundtrack composer for film and television, HBO.com just released a DVD of the Academy-award winning documentary "Lalee's Kin" featuring Gary's original score. A re-release of his album of 30's Chinese pop "The Edge of Heaven" is just out on Knitting Factory Records, and new album from his longtime band Gods and Monsters produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) is in the works for release next year. The US premiere of his new live solo project accompanying the 1931 Spanish-language "Dracula" with his original music is scheduled for closing weekend of the 48th New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center this October.

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"Guitarist/composer Lucas performs guitar fantasias that encompass rock, blues, classical, folk, jazz and electronic music with his patented twist. The former Captain Beefheart soloist and Jeff Buckley collaborator will present material from his latest album for Tzadik, Street of Lost Brothers, with guest vocalist Gisburg, drawing from a repertoire spanning from Wagner to Chinese pop music of the 1930's . Plus excerpts from his score for Maysles Films� new documentary, "Lalee's Kin�The Legacy of Cotton"."

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"In celebration of ten years of this dazzling solo guitar performances, Gary Lucas exhales an eclectic program of works by Wagner, Sun Ra and Van Vilet plus original composition including selections from his new children's album, Busy Being Born, and music from his new score for an ABC Unabomber documentary. In sum, an epic trailer-home space-travelogue for children with bombs."

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Solo Guitar Fireworks: "One of rock's most original guitarists" (NYTime) The former Beefhart soloist will present new pieces for solo guitar as well as collaborations with singer Richard Barone.

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"The Black and the Red, fireworks for solo guitar by a warrior-poet using a '63 Fender Strat, a '47 Gibson J-45, and a National Steel Duolian from the 20s A dazzlingly, delicious imaginative composer and soloist on both electric and acoustic instruments/ Lucas is an alumnus of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, and his own Gods and Monsters. Ventriloquial and psychedelic. His new disc is on Enemy Records. Possible guests. "