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Andrew
Bird
with Sandro Perri
Sat.,
Oct. 4, 2008
8PM
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PRICES: |
Reserved
Seating:
Gold Circle: $32.50
Sections A, B, C: $22.50
Section D: $19.50
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Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist
and lyricist Andrew Bird picked up his first
violin at the age of 4. Actually, it was a Cracker
Jack box with a ruler taped to it, and the first
of his many Suzuki music lessons involved simply
bowing to the teacher and going home. He spent
his formative years soaking up classical repertoire
completely by ear, so when it came time for
a restless teen-ager to make the jump to Hungarian
Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south
Indian etc., it wasn't such a giant leap. It's
fitting that now, though classically trained,
he has instead opted to play his violin in a
most unconventional manner, accompanying himself
on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and
whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop
songwriter in the process.
Though Andrew's voice has been compared to such
eminent company as Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke,
and Rufus Wainwright, like those performers,
it has a quality all its own. He also adds to
the mix his unnatural whistling ability, rendering
him capable of adding organically generated
yet otherworldly, Theremin-like sounds to the
mix, Mr. Bird has also impressed huge festival
audiences at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, SXSW, the
Montreal Jazz Festival, Radio France, and made
appearances on the BBC, KCRW's "Morning
Becomes Eclectic," and NPR's "World
Cafe" and “All Things Considered.”
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