Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King is a true iconoclast. Over the past 10 years the Brooklyn-based artist has released six extraordinarily diverse and distinctive albums (from which B-sides & Rarities has been largely culled), performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and ...
Three of today’s top contemporary composer/performers join forces for a finely hued collaborative concert. It’s a trio unlike any other – a combination of the effusive, white-hot power of America’s premier string quartet ETHEL; raw, emotionally charged picking and pounding of guitarist Kaki King; and complex harmonies and structures of composer/guitarist/violist John King. This eclectic program includes world premieres by all three artists written both individually and collaboratively, as well as some existing pieces, peppered by guitars, dobros, banjos and ouds.