John Burdick and Sandy Bell, June 24, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
John Burdick and Sandy Bell, June 24, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Join John Burdick and Sandy Bell at Green Kill Sessions on, Saturday, June 24 at 8 PM.
Join John Burdick and Sandy Bell at Green Kill Sessions on, Saturday, June 24 at 8 PM.
Read about John and Sandy below.
This event is a livestream production open to a live audience of 30. The livestream is broadcast on the YouTube Channel. 10 dollars for live audience tickts. 5 dollars for livestream tickets. Go here to purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-burdick-and-sandy-bell-june-24-8-pm-green-kill-sessions-tickets-643089908227
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Live audience Ticket
People who wish to attend a performance reserve a Live Audience Ticket to attend the livestream event. Live audience ticket holders will also receive a link to watch on Youtube after the event. Live audience ticket holders will not be admitted to Green Kill after the livestream begins!
Livestream Ticket
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John Burdick
Hello. My name is John Burdick. Depending on how you look at it, I either resumed or simply began an active musician’s life at the late age of 46 or 47, 13 or 14 years ago. In that time, I have led my own band, The Sweet Clementines, and played guitar or bass (and now keys) in countless other Hudson Valley projects: The Trapps, Battle Ave, Mark Donato, Hiding Behind Sound, Pelican Movement, and Setting Sun just to name a few.
I have also performed and/or recorded with a few national concerns in Laura Stevenson and Rhett Miller, with whom I recently co-composed music for Marvel’s popular Wastelanders: Wolverine radio drama podcast. I have also played guitar on two Grammy-nominated albums by the Okee Dokee Brothers. I keep forgetting about that. I’m a regularly-publishing regional music critic as well, which has complicated and complemented my musician’s life.
That’s about as far as I can stretch the facts. I write a lot of songs. My fairly busy datebook as a player of other people’s songs may somewhat limit my ability to prioritize my own. Not sure. Still, it’s a rich musical life, and when I call myself an amateur musician, I do it not with sheepish deference to the Pros in the room but with a little you-don’t-own-me swagger and arrogance. Amateurs do whatever the f#@k they want, is my thinking.
I see my music as way downstream from the Beatles, picking up a lot of noise from classical music, folk, and all manner of eccentric rock and pop along the way. In this self-branded duo with my Sweet Clementines bandmate, the vocalist and violinist/keyboardist Marianne Tasick, I get to emphasize my newest material. Abandoned older songs and outliers come back in new ways. With two multi-instrumentalists who are only a little afraid of technology, our set sits somewhere in the middle between band and solo performance. Kind of slack chamber music maybe. This gives us a chance to do some cool stuff with arrangement and improvisation.
https://johnburdick.bandcamp.com
https://thesweetclementines.bandcamp.com
Sandy Bell
Sandy Bell is a musician and songwriter who has moved through a vibrant and textured musical constellation, playing most notably with the late but eternally brilliant Jeff Buckley as well as singing on the Bat for Lashes album “The Bride.” Bell’s debut solo album, “When I Leave Ohio,” was hailed by Stereo Embers Magazine as “…beautiful, resonant work that’s stark and painful—Bell’s songs have crushing, emotional exactitude that is nothing short of staggering.” Her new album, to be released in Summer 2023, is titled “Entelechy.” Music journalist Alex Green found “Entelechy” to be “filled with stirring melancholy and musical grace,” an album that “explores the geometry of both musical form and sorrow, while the cathartic transmutation of grief into promise will take you somewhere between the worlds of Harry Nilsson and Kate Bush.”
Scott Kent, Sound Engineer
Scott Kent originally came to Woodstock in 1988 to work for Bearsville Studios. He taught guitar at Abrams Music and the Kingston Conservatory of Music before moving to San Diego in 1993. He taught Band and Orchestra for San Diego Unified School District for 18 years and returned to Mt. Tremper in 2016. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from San Diego State University.
